Kaleidoscope partner Emmi Keskisarja is reflecting on the role of participatory design in the field of architecture in a recent post at the Finnish Cultural Foundation blog. Emmi is currently working on her doctoral thesis researching design methods, and we are looking forward to see more of her ground breaking work. Those of you able to read in Finnish, take a look here.
Greetings from Tallinn!
This picture seems to capture all the important elements in our Talsinki City Centre workshop contribution: the silhouette of Tallinn, the harbour and the sea, the boats - and the obligatory hot air balloon included in all serious architectural renderings these days! Our past couple of days have been spent working together with Stuudio Tallinn and alongside many Finnish-Estonian teams on the topic of Talsinki tunnel connection under the Gulf of Finland. We also made it to the national news, you can watch the clip here. Our workshop results are displayed on Uusi Kaupunki website, have a look!
Jyväskylä workshop uncovered
A lovely writing about our Uusi Kaupunki participatory planning workshop in Jyväskylä appeared in the newspaper Keskisuomalainen today. We were visited by many enthusiastic citizens - as well as the obligatory art stunt pigeons, seen in the background of Emmi. Our work with the market places of Jyväskylä continues now towards design phase based on the ideas we gathered on Saturday, we'll be back! Go and visit the event page on Facebook in the meanwhile: https://www.facebook.com/events/694320054024366/
Uusi Kaupunki + Kaleidoscope is true!
We are thrilled to announce that Kaleidoscope has been taken as a part of Uusi Kaupunki, a collective of young Finnish design offices. Together we are organizing participatory urban design workshops with Finnish cities, out of which the Finnish National Broadcasting company YLE recorded a six episode tv-series "Kaupunki Uusiksi" in 2014: http://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2014/10/08/kaupunki-uusiksi-eli-miten-suunnitella-suomesta-parempi-paikka. Our first workshop is just around the corner, as we are envisioning the new urban spaces of Jyväskylä together with citizens on Saturday 16.5.2015.
Check out www.uusi-kaupunki.fi for more information on the collective and the past projects with different cities. Kaleidoscope is in a good crowd!
Phantom Pain and other stories
Today we are happy to share this in-depth interview on Finnisharchitecture.fi. Emmi Keskisarja and Miia-Liina Tommila talk about why healing as a medical process can be translated to architecture, what effects it has when you give a building a voice, and how architecture can rejuvenate traumatized urban context. Architecture journalist Anni Vartola asked us challenging questions, we hope you enjoy the read! Find the interview here.
Happy holidays!
We wish everyone a relaxing holiday season and a successful new year. It has been an exciting year for us and we are looking forward to the adventures of 2015!
Kaleidoscope New York event on eOculus
Here is a lovely reading on our New York evening event written by James Way on eOculus, the AIA New York Chapter online newsletter. Accurate and with clear insight, this article will bring some atmospheres from the evening to those of you who couldn't be there with us. Thank you AIA for making the event possible!
Winter in New York
We are thrilled to report our forthcoming adventure in New York: tomorrow on the 25th of November, Kaleidoscope is giving a talk at the AIA New York Center for Architecture. As a part of our presentation, our play A Visit to the Doctor from the project Phantom Pain will have its premiere on the continent! Please join us if you are in New York, registration for the event is here.
Kaleidoscope on Finnisharchitecture.fi
It is time for our first post and what better to start with than presenting the lovely interview of Kaleidoscope team members Emmi Keskisarja and Miia-Liina Tommila for Finnisharchitecture.fi. Here, we talk with architecture journalist Anni Vartola about our work and the process of becoming a team, as well as our aspirations for the future. Find the piece here. In Finnish, you will find the interview here.