Architectural and Urban Projects & Collaborations PROXIMA UTOPIA ![]() Perhaps following a cycle (and anticipation) of global crisis developing today, architecture finds itself again drawn to utopias. However, as today our understanding of modernities has become multi-centered and simultaneous, we are witnessing also several deviant ways in how future societies are being pursued. "Proxima Utopia" represents a project for an atlas that seeks to provide speculative cartography and imagery for these developments. It is not as such a "mappa mundi", consisting of what we currently know of the world, but more of a design-led inquiry into the "other" directions that global development might take – with or without the benevolent and harmonious past understandings of utopias. While not potentially desirable, the scenes discussed in the atlas seem yet plausible, deriving from current global politics, power relations, economy, surveillance, the post-internet and the looming ecological changes – the real contexts of future architecture. Proxima Utopia is presented as part of the Future Architecture Platform 2017 (read more) (More info about exhibition outcomes and presentations during summer 2017 to be announced.) THE UNSEEN PROJECT ![]() HERTTONIEMI DESIGN ST. Honorable mention in an open ideas competition by the City of Helsinki & Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 organization. Fall 2010. Collaboration with Henrik Drufva and Rebekka Gröhn. ![]() GÖSTA ART MUSEUM ![]() ![]() Serlachius Art Museum Gösta Extention, Competition Entry, 2011. Collaboration with Henrik Drufva. The design task was a larger extension for an existing red-brick manor today housing an art museum. The project focused on creating memorable spaces, and the sensation of visiting the home of a worldly art collector. WONDERLAND / FUTURE SHOPPING WIEN Aspern Seestadt ![]() Selected from an open ideas competion for an international workshop Wonderland “The Other Cities” Workspace, in Architekturzentrum Wien, 2010. The concept looked into the possibilities of providing creative temporary urban uses within the normative economic model of a shopping district development. SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN GRAND POPO ![]() ![]() Part of “Good Morning Africa!” -exhibition, Helsinki Kunsthalle, summer 2010. |