How Big Is Your Footprint? The Helsinki of 2012 provides citizens with easy and interesting-to-use tools to understand and control their carbon footprint. Working together with designers, artists and engineers to create ways to see and understand this aspect of daily life, Helsinki helped build carbon awareness to position itself as a leading city in the global race towards carbon neutrality. What would happen if Helsinki’s many digital displays – on the street and in busses – were turned into a massive sensing network which offers realtime, visually compelling statistics depicting Helsinki’s carbon output? Or what if Helsinki becomes the first city in the world to require products to be clearly labelled with their carbon footprint?

How Big Is Your Footprint?

The Helsinki of 2012 provides citizens with easy and interesting-to-use tools to understand and control their carbon footprint. Working together with designers, artists and engineers to create ways to see and understand this aspect of daily life, Helsinki helped build carbon awareness to position itself as a leading city in the global race towards carbon neutrality.

What would happen if Helsinki’s many digital displays – on the street and in busses – were turned into a massive sensing network which offers realtime, visually compelling statistics depicting Helsinki’s carbon output? Or what if Helsinki becomes the first city in the world to require products to be clearly labelled with their carbon footprint?

How Big Is Your Footprint? The Helsinki of 2012 provides citizens with easy and interesting-to-use tools to understand and control their carbon footprint. Working together with designers, artists and engineers to create ways to see and understand this aspect of daily life, Helsinki helped build carbon awareness to position itself as a leading city in the global race towards carbon neutrality. What would happen if Helsinki’s many digital displays – on the street and in busses – were turned into a massive sensing network which offers realtime, visually compelling statistics depicting Helsinki’s carbon output? Or what if Helsinki becomes the first city in the world to require products to be clearly labelled with their carbon footprint?

How Big Is Your Footprint?

The Helsinki of 2012 provides citizens with easy and interesting-to-use tools to understand and control their carbon footprint. Working together with designers, artists and engineers to create ways to see and understand this aspect of daily life, Helsinki helped build carbon awareness to position itself as a leading city in the global race towards carbon neutrality.

What would happen if Helsinki’s many digital displays – on the street and in busses – were turned into a massive sensing network which offers realtime, visually compelling statistics depicting Helsinki’s carbon output? Or what if Helsinki becomes the first city in the world to require products to be clearly labelled with their carbon footprint?

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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.