Here is a tip of the week for a good start for 2017: join us for an inspirational seminar on leadership in Helsinki on 17th January organized by the Norwegian-Finnish Trade Association. The seminar is held by leadership consultant and career psychologist Viveka Zetterborg-Leppänen from CareerDesign, who will talk about leadership based on temperaments and self-leadership. The language of the seminar is Swedish. Viveka has a long experience from the field, we are looking forward to an insipirational morning with her!
It's Christmas time again!
With this frozen version of our Kunstsilo competition project (with Santa Claus of course) we wish everyone a happy Christmas time and a great 2017 to come with plenty of adventures ahead - we are looking forward to the new year. Thank you all of our collaborators and followers, 2016 has been great for Kaleidoscope! *** Med denne frosne versjon (med julenissen selvsagt) av vårt bidrag til Kunstsilo i Kristiansand ønsker vi alle våre samarbeidspartnere god jul og godt nytt år 2017. Det har vært et spennende år for oss i Kaleidoscope og neste året bringer enda mere nytt vår vei! *** Tämän talvisen näkymän myötä (tsekkaa joulupukki katolla) toivotamme kaikille yhteistyökumppaneillemme hyvää joulua ja iloista uutta vuotta 2017. Vuosi on ollut antoisa ja ensi vuodelle odotamme lisää uusia seikkailuita!
Meet the hoods at Laituri
Tomorrow, on Wednesday 16th November, we are excited to be at the opening of an exhibition of Helsinki City's Neighbourhood -project. The project is celebrating it's 20th jubileum and for this occasion, Kaleidoscope and three other members of Uusi Kaupunki have created a vision of what the neighbourhoods in Helsinki could look like in year 2100. We have had a lot of fun with this piece of work, as it contained also collaboration with scientists, researchers and experts of the future. Stepping outside our everyday and dreaming about life in 2100 has been a bit of a mental journey. The results will be on display at the exhibition space Laituri in Helsinki during 16.11. - 1.12.2016 and also here on the webpage of Uusi Kaupunki. For more up-to-date information, check out the Facebook event and the Facebook-page of Laituri, not to mention the Facebook-page of Uusi Kaupunki as well as the Neighbourhood project. We will be back with photos from the opening as well as delivering the final project on our website portfolio soon.
Participation works!
It's busy days for Kaleidoscope! On Friday 18th November Silje and Miia-Liina will be giving a talk in DogA about participation in planning processes. We are presenting both works from Uusi Kaupunki as well as Kaleidoscope. Register for the seminar and come meet us and a wonderfully skilled group of other Nordic presenters in Oslo!
Pedagogy in Bergen School of Architecture
Tomorrow, Miia-Liina will revisit her study times in Norway, as she is giving a presentation on Bergen School of Architecture in Helsinki. Check out the event on Facebook!
Architecture school of the future?
The students chapter of the Finnish Association of Architects is organizing an event on the future of architectural education and Kaleidoscope is proud to be a part of this. Miia-Liina will be giving a speech about pedagogy in Bergen School of Architecture as well as facilitating a workshop along other professionals from Uusi Kaupunki collective. What kind of architects would we like to work with in the future? The world is changing but is the education following up? Come and discuss and draw out the future school of your dreams.... The event is open for everyone interested! Check out futher details in Facebook.
Kaleidoscope presenting Open processes and tools in Oslo
Our partner Silje Klepsvik will be giving a speech about Open processes and tools in planning the conference "Deltakelse og tilhørighet på steder i endring" at DogA in Oslo on Wednesday 12th October. The full-day free seminar is a part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale extended program and is arranged by Akershus fylkeskommune with Urban Ide and Kulturseksjonen. The speakers include professor Ola Bettum from NMBU and professor Robert Donovan from University of Western Australia. We are delighted to share our recent experiences from working with a participatory process with Asker municipality, as well as presenting the work and methods of Uusi Kaupunki, for the forst time in Norway! See more details on the program and the conference from the Facebook-event. You can download the detailed program through this link.
Location based survey about the future of Dikemark
We have now launched a location based questionnaire about the future of Dikemark. The survey gathers ideas and suggestions for the future of Dikemark, and is available until 1.10.2016. The survey is the result of collaboration between us, Asker municipality and the Finnish Mapita Oy, which is the provider of the tool, Maptionnaire. Check out this article on GeoAwesomeness on how Maptionnaire revolutionizes public participatory practises in urban planning and development - we are proud to be in our part at the frontier of the change!
#NyeDikemark
On Sunday 11th of September at 1pm, in just a couple of days, we are hosting an informal lunch event at the centre of Dikemark in Asker. Join us for this occasion to share your ideas and visions for the future of the old hospital area and be part of creating new activity at Dikemark! Bring your friends and family and own food and drinks - we will set the table and take care of the rest. The event is the starting point for the planning process of Dikemark to a sustainable local centre. The whole process is gathered on the website of Asker municipality. You can register by sending an email to rigmor.stenvik@asker.kommune.no or by clicking "attending" at the Facebook-event.
Pietilä award 2016 granted to Uusi Kaupunki
Every other year the Finnish Building Information foundation awards a prize for significant work for the renewal of architecture, named after architects Reima and Raili Pietilä. The award is given for a young architect or a group of architects.
This year we are honoured to announce that the prizewinner is Uusi Kaupunki collective (New Urban collective), of which Kaleidoscope is a member since 2015.
Uusi Kaupunki is a company started in 2013 by six young Finnish architecture offices. Today 13 offices, including over 30 international architects, urban designers and service designers, form the collective. The collective responds to the changing challenges of the contemporary urban design through methods that inspire and activate the citizens.
Professor Markku Hedman, chairman of the jury, states that ”Uusi Kaupunki collective, formed by the architects of the new generation, has demostrated that they pursue urban design with the unprejudice attitude required by our time. On the grounds for granting the award he adds: ”The collective and interactive working methods of Uusi Kaupunki respond excellently to the needs of current city planning: the demand of extensive dialogue and the enforcement of the role of the inhabitants.”
The previous laureates include among other ALA Architects and JKMM Architects, as well as several of the professors in Finnish architecture schools.
Kaleidoscope will continue to work with participatory processes and look forward to develop Uusi Kaupunki as well as to find new collaborators in Finland and abroad. The award money will be used for building up a network for Nordic architectural collaboration. We express our deep gratitude for this recognition from our peers and colleagues.