Urbane Industry Few places have a craft legacy as strong as Finland. In 2012 the local talents have been saved from the brink of extinction through city programmes to encourage and foster small scale industry right in the heart of the city. Multicultural skills and methods merge in the new collaborations accomplished between designers and manufacturers working closely together. New ideas and job opportunities are born – having this growth in the center of the city adds a new spirit of creation to Helsinki. How could zoning exceptions allow small scale manufacturing to move into the city center? Ground floor spaces on courtyards make logistics especially easy and add a new dimension to these underutilised spaces. Special incentives are offered for shops which manufacture and sell their goods in the same space.

Urbane Industry

Few places have a craft legacy as strong as Finland. In 2012 the local talents have been saved from the brink of extinction through city programmes to encourage and foster small scale industry right in the heart of the city. Multicultural skills and methods merge in the new collaborations accomplished between designers and manufacturers working closely together. New ideas and job opportunities are born – having this growth in the center of the city adds a new spirit of creation to Helsinki.

How could zoning exceptions allow small scale manufacturing to move into the city center? Ground floor spaces on courtyards make logistics especially easy and add a new dimension to these underutilised spaces. Special incentives are offered for shops which manufacture and sell their goods in the same space.

Urbane Industry Few places have a craft legacy as strong as Finland. In 2012 the local talents have been saved from the brink of extinction through city programmes to encourage and foster small scale industry right in the heart of the city. Multicultural skills and methods merge in the new collaborations accomplished between designers and manufacturers working closely together. New ideas and job opportunities are born – having this growth in the center of the city adds a new spirit of creation to Helsinki. How could zoning exceptions allow small scale manufacturing to move into the city center? Ground floor spaces on courtyards make logistics especially easy and add a new dimension to these underutilised spaces. Special incentives are offered for shops which manufacture and sell their goods in the same space.

Urbane Industry

Few places have a craft legacy as strong as Finland. In 2012 the local talents have been saved from the brink of extinction through city programmes to encourage and foster small scale industry right in the heart of the city. Multicultural skills and methods merge in the new collaborations accomplished between designers and manufacturers working closely together. New ideas and job opportunities are born – having this growth in the center of the city adds a new spirit of creation to Helsinki.

How could zoning exceptions allow small scale manufacturing to move into the city center? Ground floor spaces on courtyards make logistics especially easy and add a new dimension to these underutilised spaces. Special incentives are offered for shops which manufacture and sell their goods in the same space.

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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.