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Helsinki Design Week

Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordics. 5.–14.9.2025. Helsinki Design Week is the largest design festival in the Nordics.
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It is an annual city festival celebrating new design through new experiences, encounters and the exchange of ideas. Join us for workshops, exhibitions, fashion shows, seminars, visits to studios and closed-for-public spaces as well as shopping. Get inside studios and spaces usually closed to the public. See you at Helsinki Design Week!

25/08/2026

Open Studios this Friday 28 August!❤️‍🔥

The first batch of studios opening the doors include:

⭐️Parkly & RaivioBumann Parkly RaivioBumann
⭐️Studio Anna Kesäniemi Anna Kesäniemi
⭐️Paloceras atelier and showroom Paloceras®
⭐️Heij Helsinki heij_helsinki
⭐️Studio 24
⭐️KAAOSSTUDIO KAAOSSTUDIO

Join the free tour organized by Helsinki Desgin Week or visit the studios in your own pace.🛼
👀See the locations, get to know the studios and register to the guided tour at helsinkidesignweek.com

⭐️Open Studios
🗓️Fri 28 August
⏰4 pm to 7 pm

25/08/2026

How can the Helsinki city centre be reimagined?☄️

Join the seminar: Towards a More Vibrant City Centre to get insights on the topic!👀

🗓️Tue 1 September, 2–4 pm
📍Helsinki City Hall
Registration required!💫

For decades, city centres have been shaped around retail, offices, and public infrastructure. Today, e-commerce, remote work, changing consumer behaviour, and new ways of living are challenging this model. Helsinki Design Week brings together experts in urban planning, business, design, and culture to explore new solutions for the future of the city.

📣Speakers include Lisa Thörn, Jannica Aalto, and Pia Salmi.

⭐️The seminar will conclude with a panel discussion on the topic “What concrete actions can make the city centre more vibrant?” Invited panellists include Mikko Leisti and Timo Hämäläinen.

The seminar will be moderated by Katja Lindroos.

💥Register now at helsinkidesignweek.com.

📸 Justus Hirvi / Luovi Productions

24/08/2026

Design Diplomacy series continues! Next up: Belgium🇧🇪
🖋️Register now – spots are filling up fast!

Designed by a Belgian architect Roger Bast together with a Finnish architect couple Lars and Mona Hedman, the building joins the two countries together with beautiful functionality.
The building is located in Kaivopuoisto and was built in 1970. Embassy of Belgium in Helsinki

Meet the players📣

✨Nel Verbeke is a Flemish artist and designer whose work places a strong emphasis on emotion and mental space. She operates at the intersection of design, art, and scenography, often creating installations and objects that explore time, silence, and stillness. Her practice is closely aligned with themes such as slowness, care, and sensory experience, making her a particularly relevant voice in the current discourse on design and sustainability. Nel Verbeke

✨Sini Rinne-Kanto is a curator, researcher and PhD candidate specialising in post-war design history. Her research focuses on Cold War-era material culture, exploring how objects mediate political histories, collective memories and practices of resistance. Combining curatorial practice with scholarly research, she frequently incorporates archival inquiry into exhibition-making. She teaches design history and theory at ▪▫️️Université Paris 8▫️▪️ and CY école de design - Pour le vivant 🌱 in Paris.

Alongside her academic work, Rinne-Kanto has developed an extensive curatorial practice in contemporary art and design. She has collaborated with the estates of artists and designers such as Yrjö Kukkapuro, Tove Jansson, and Tom of Finland. She curated the 2025 edition of the Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale and co-founded of the Paris-based non-profit art spaces The Community and La Plage, as well as the art fair The Salon by NADA & The Community.

🇧🇪Design Diplomacy - Belgium
🗓️4 September, at 5–7 pm
📍Kalliolinnantie 5, 00140 Helsinki

📸 3. Marton Perlaki Marton Perlaki

21/08/2026

🏔️From Depths to Heights – 90 Years of Suunto is an archive exhibition celebrating nine decades of Finnish design, innovation, and outdoor culture.

Curated and designed by Werneri Vanhanen and garbadura_com collective, the exhibition brings together rare objects, archival materials, and previously unseen content to trace Suunto ’s evolution from precision compasses to contemporary wearable technology. Through products, stories, and spatial design, the exhibition explores how functional design, technological innovation, and a deep relationship with nature have shaped one of Finland’s most enduring design brands.💫

September 3–5, 1–7 pm
📍Kasino Vintage & 2nd hand, Katariinankatu 1, 00170 Helsinki

20/08/2026

Howard Smith Exhibition Opening Celebration at EMMA on Friday 4 Sept from 6 to 9pm⭐️

Join us to celebrate the opening of Howard Smith’s (1928–2021) long-awaited retrospective!💫
Bringing together works from the 1960s to the 2000s, across ceramics, textile art, collage, painting and sculpture, the exhibition reveals the extraordinary breadth of a beloved and versatile artist who contributed to the Finnish art and design field for decades.
✨Check out the programme of the event at emmamuseum.fi EMMA

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2) Howard Smith, Timo (bird), 1992. Collection of Howard Smith Estate © Paula Virta / EMMA
3) Howard Smith in 1967 © Gideon Gitai
4) © Paula Virta / EMMA

20/08/2026

Want to discover tomorrow?👀

Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition, Designs for a Cooler Planet, brings together students and researchers fresh perspectives, bold experiments and practical solutions designed to change the world.🪐

As part of Helsinki Design Week, the exhibition demonstrates how something small or seemingly ordinary can have an impact far greater than its size and change the way we think about what is possible.

Come and find out!💫

🗓️1 September - 30 October
📍Aalto University, Otakaari 2
🌱Free entry!

Aalto-yliopisto

📸Esa Kapila / Aalto-yliopisto, Kalle Kataila / Aalto-yliopisto

19/08/2026

✨Alia Ali: In Light of…

In Light of… is the first solo exhibition in the Nordic region by internationally acclaimed artist Alia Ali. The immersive presentation unfolds as a rich weave of patterns, symbols, and narratives.🪐
Alia Ali’s works celebrate collectivity, connectivity, and the circulation of ideas across cultures and geographies.
📣On show at Kunsthalle starting 20 August!

Programme during Helsinki Design Week:

⭐️Guided tour for children:
Sat 29 Aug at 1–2pm

⭐️Guided tours:
Sat 29 Aug at 3pm, in Finnish
Tue 1 Sept at 4pm, in English
Wed 2 Sept at 4pm, in Finnish
Sat 5 Sept at 1pm, in English
Sat 5 Sept at 3pm, in Finnish

💫Alia Ali: In Light of…
🗓️Tue-Fri 11am – 6pm, Sat-Sun 11am – 5pm
🎟️20€ / 12 € / Museum Card. Free entry for children under 18 years.
📍Kunsthalle, Nervanderinkatu 3, 00100, Helsinki

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1. Mata, BATIK, Alia Ali. 2025
2. Päivi Niemi

19/08/2026

🫟KAAOSSTUDIO is a gym for creativity skills — a place where imagination is amplified and mistakes become raw material.

This August, the former atelier house of artist Birger Carlstedt opens to the public for the first time and begins a new chapter as the home of KAAOSSTUDIO.⭐️

📣Join us during Helsinki Design Week for Open Studios on 28 August or 4 September, or celebrate our opening with us on 29 August!

Built in collaboration with the Amos Anderson Fund, KAAOSSTUDIO invites individuals, organisations and communities to practise creativity as a vital human capability.

KAAOSTUDIO at the Open Studios
Fri 28 August, 4-7pm
Fri 4 Sept, 4-7pm

KAAOSSTUDIO opening party
29 August, 6-10pm
Registration required!

📍Itäinen rantatie 14, Nuottaniemi, Espoo

KAAOSSTUDIO Amos Andersons fond Helsinki Design Week

📸 Kati Rapia

18/08/2026

Encounters, Design & Bubbles – OPEN HOUSE

Vepsäläinen Business showroom takes a head start to Helsinki Design Week, by opening their showroom doors already on the morning of Wed 26 August! 🚪

💫Check out the most beautiful design innovations for public spaces, browse fabric novelties from Finland and Europe and meet colleagues. Vepsäläinen Business

🫧Encounters, Design & Bubbles – OPEN HOUSE
🗓️26 August & 2 September
⏰8.30am – 7pm
📍Vepsäläinen Business showroom,
Yrjönkatu 12-14, 00120, Helsinki

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1. Wilderness Hotel Saariselkä, Restaurant 2025
2. Office Remion, Tampere 2025
3. Wilderness Hotel Saariselkä, 2025
4. Wilderness Hotel Saariselkä, 2025
5. Office Remion, Tampere 2025

18/08/2026

The Design Diplomacy series continues with Ireland! 🇮🇪
Meet the speakers Brett O’Mahony and Ananya Tanttu:

🔸Brett O’Mahony is the Creative Director at Studio Saol, a strategic design & futures office practice based in Limerick, Ireland. Her background spans digital experiences & advertising, branding, and design for social innovation, shaped through work in Ireland and the UK with organisations including Burberry, Apple, Google, and aid organisations like Humanity Crew.

🔸Ananya Tanttu is a Finnish visual artist currently studying for a MFA in time and space arts at the Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Helsinki). Her practice, into which she weaves text and elements of installation, is primarily lens-based. Since 2013, Tanttu’s works have been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions in Finland and abroad, and her works can be found in both private and public collections. She has also been a part of the core team behind Lokal Gallery, a Helsinki-based concept gallery, since founding in 2012.

Reserve your seat now at helsinkidesignweek.com!

Design Diplomacy - Ireland
🗓️4 September
⏰12–2 pm
📍Pohjoisranta 2 F 20 (4.kerros), 00170 Helsinki

🇮🇪 – Since 2021, the official residence of the Embassy of Ireland is located at Pohjoisranta 2. In addition to serving as the private residence of the ambassador, the residence plays an important role as an entertainment and networking venue for the embassy. Pohjoisranta 2 residential block was designed by architect Kirsti Sivén. It is located on the site of a former to***co factory and the design project entailed a great deal of balancing between contemporary demands, respect for the existing setting, and the requirements of the Helsinki town plan. The residence, a contemporary venue for representing Ireland and its craft and design heritage, features stunning views over Pohjoissatama harbour.

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