From a Green City to a City of Many Different Greens By the year 2012 Helsinki’s gorgeous, vast parks have been complemented by small scale areas of respite throughout the city. Some are so small that they’re just a bench and a single tree. These gardens and parks offer a resting point for people with lowered mobility, increase the variety of the streetscape, and provide space for communal vegetable gardens right in the city center. How to get there: A crowd-sourced survey of the city’s parks, including their size and location within the city, allows the drafting of urban planning policy that mandates new green areas of a variety of sizes. Meanwhile, the city offers free park furniture to any group of at least four neighbours who sign an agreement to take care of their courtyard park for at least twelve months.

From a Green City to a City of Many Different Greens

By the year 2012 Helsinki’s gorgeous, vast parks have been complemented by small scale areas of respite throughout the city. Some are so small that they’re just a bench and a single tree. These gardens and parks offer a resting point for people with lowered mobility, increase the variety of the streetscape, and provide space for communal vegetable gardens right in the city center.

How to get there: A crowd-sourced survey of the city’s parks, including their size and location within the city, allows the drafting of urban planning policy that mandates new green areas of a variety of sizes. Meanwhile, the city offers free park furniture to any group of at least four neighbours who sign an agreement to take care of their courtyard park for at least twelve months.

From a Green City to a City of Many Different Greens By the year 2012 Helsinki’s gorgeous, vast parks have been complemented by small scale areas of respite throughout the city. Some are so small that they’re just a bench and a single tree. These gardens and parks offer a resting point for people with lowered mobility, increase the variety of the streetscape, and provide space for communal vegetable gardens right in the city center. How to get there: A crowd-sourced survey of the city’s parks, including their size and location within the city, allows the drafting of urban planning policy that mandates new green areas of a variety of sizes. Meanwhile, the city offers free park furniture to any group of at least four neighbours who sign an agreement to take care of their courtyard park for at least twelve months.

From a Green City to a City of Many Different Greens

By the year 2012 Helsinki’s gorgeous, vast parks have been complemented by small scale areas of respite throughout the city. Some are so small that they’re just a bench and a single tree. These gardens and parks offer a resting point for people with lowered mobility, increase the variety of the streetscape, and provide space for communal vegetable gardens right in the city center.

How to get there: A crowd-sourced survey of the city’s parks, including their size and location within the city, allows the drafting of urban planning policy that mandates new green areas of a variety of sizes. Meanwhile, the city offers free park furniture to any group of at least four neighbours who sign an agreement to take care of their courtyard park for at least twelve months.

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Hello from Helsinki 2012!

This site features a collection of postcards from the future with clues to an open and happier Helsinki.

As a collaboration between Sitra and OK Do, Clues to Open Helsinki project suggests strategic changes that might make Helsinki the best World Design Capital to date. In doing so it redefines the role of design in the contemporary city.