Special Activities for a Special City Helsinki now accommodates a broader range of public activities. Instead of focusing on the best art museum or amusement park in the world, Helsinki invested in smaller scale public initiatives such as mushroom outings in Central Park or night markets. The city put emphasis on special things that can only happen in Finland and encouraged them everywhere – not only in Narinkkatori! These events and activities help fold international visitors and immigrants into the Finnish culture, but they also offer an opportunity for residents of different neighbourhoods to experience their city anew. Offering event organisers the possibility of negotiating additional public transit would allow events to occur in unlikely places and still be busy. And what about a forum for suggesting completely new kinds of public events?

Special Activities for a Special City

Helsinki now accommodates a broader range of public activities. Instead of focusing on the best art museum or amusement park in the world, Helsinki invested in smaller scale public initiatives such as mushroom outings in Central Park or night markets. The city put emphasis on special things that can only happen in Finland and encouraged them everywhere – not only in Narinkkatori! These events and activities help fold international visitors and immigrants into the Finnish culture, but they also offer an opportunity for residents of different neighbourhoods to experience their city anew.

Offering event organisers the possibility of negotiating additional public transit would allow events to occur in unlikely places and still be busy. And what about a forum for suggesting completely new kinds of public events?

Special Activities for a Special City Helsinki now accommodates a broader range of public activities. Instead of focusing on the best art museum or amusement park in the world, Helsinki invested in smaller scale public initiatives such as mushroom outings in Central Park or night markets. The city put emphasis on special things that can only happen in Finland and encouraged them everywhere – not only in Narinkkatori! These events and activities help fold international visitors and immigrants into the Finnish culture, but they also offer an opportunity for residents of different neighbourhoods to experience their city anew. Offering event organisers the possibility of negotiating additional public transit would allow events to occur in unlikely places and still be busy. And what about a forum for suggesting completely new kinds of public events?

Special Activities for a Special City

Helsinki now accommodates a broader range of public activities. Instead of focusing on the best art museum or amusement park in the world, Helsinki invested in smaller scale public initiatives such as mushroom outings in Central Park or night markets. The city put emphasis on special things that can only happen in Finland and encouraged them everywhere – not only in Narinkkatori! These events and activities help fold international visitors and immigrants into the Finnish culture, but they also offer an opportunity for residents of different neighbourhoods to experience their city anew.

Offering event organisers the possibility of negotiating additional public transit would allow events to occur in unlikely places and still be busy. And what about a forum for suggesting completely new kinds of public events?

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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.