Hi all! I am still sick since last weekend, so I will miss out tonight! But I am still in for all explorations in Helsinki, and I am writing here some suggestions:
Hi all! I am still sick since last weekend, so I will miss out tonight! But I am still in for all explorations in Helsinki, and I am writing here some suggestions:
Arkkitehti Andrea Zalewski New Yorkista tulee Ptarmiganiin (Nilsiänkatu 10, Vallila, Helsinki) sunnuntaina 5.9. kello 19-22 esittämään Rotterdamin Arkkitehtuuribiennaaliin 2009 tekemäänsä lyhytelokuvaa Cities of Preferences (18min), joka kertoo nobelisti Thomas Schellingin segregaatioteoriasta kaupungeissa, erityisesti New Yorkin kaupunginosissa. Esitys järjestetään Ptarmiganin Labyrinths and Rings -sarjassa, josta lisää alla. Ilmainen sisäänpääsy, ruokaa ja juomaa sekä Gareth Hayes dj:nä.
A friend of mine has made an interesting urban research documentary film at Columbia University. I would like to screen it either as a part of another class or as an event of its own. We can do this at my working space in Katajanokka anytime!
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*Cities of Preferences* is a short documentary film which
addresses the spatial organization of communities within the modern city,
and presents the neighborhood segregation model developed by Thomas
Schelling, a 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics. In addition, the film
illustrates some of the culturally rich enclaves found across the boroughs
of New York City to reflect upon the positive and negative aspects of
segregation and congregation and how designers might engage with this
phenomenon.
*Cities of Preferences (20 min)*
Produced by: Moving Image Lab at Columbia [MILC] <
http://www.movingimagelab.com/>
A film by: Mathan Ratinam (Columbia GSAPP / Parsons), Toni Schade
(University of Innsbruck), Andrea Zalewski (Columbia GSAPP)
Links to previous film screenings:
Studio-X in New York City in 2010
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The day is now confirmed to be the 5th of September! The screening will be part of Ptarmigan's artist talks, and held at Ptarmigan, Nilsiänkatu 10. Welcome, bring your friends!
This workshop is now scheduled as the Cob oven building workshop for tomorrow night and the coming weekend! Check out the calendar! And a warm welcome!! :)
If you have ever tasted pizza or bread made in a stoneoven, nothing else will ever satisfy your taste-buds likewise. Wouldn't it be great to build a stone oven yourself, together with other enthusiasts, and learn basic brick-layering techniques and bread-making? At the Kalasatama area, with a public access to people who want to organize events or just celebrate with friends?
This workshop would be part of a project called "5", a series of food events in Helsinki. Check out the blog! 1234viisi.wordpress.com After the oven would be dry (that takes about 3-4 weeks), the first event of the series could take place (end of July/middle of August?), followed by hopefully many others that anyone interested could organize.
Hi! This class sounds fantastic - let's organize it! I am e-mailing you, Salla and Katharina, to agree on a date.
Olemme aloittamassa muiden konttilaisjärjestöjen kanssa yhteiset avoimet ovet aina lauantaisin. Tervetuloa alkaen tästä lauantaista 3.7., jolloin pidämme tavaranvaihtajaiset sekä grilli-iltapäivän! Tervetuloa vaihdettavien vanhojen tavaroiden sekä piknik-korin kanssa mihin aikaan vain. Ps. Kalasatamassa on myös pieni auringonottohiekkaranta!
We are starting a regular open Saturday at the Kalasatama containers with all other container groups. This Saturday July 3rd we will have a free flea market (exchanging things like clothes, books...) together with a picnic. Welcome with your old things and picnic food! ps. There is also a small artificial beach for sunbathing in Kalasatama...
more..Olemme aloittamassa muiden konttilaisjärjestöjen kanssa yhteiset avoimet ovet aina lauantaisin. Tervetuloa alkaen tästä lauantaista 3.7., jolloin pidämme tavaranvaihtajaiset sekä grilli-iltapäivän! Tervetuloa vaihdettavien vanhojen tavaroiden sekä piknik-korin kanssa mihin aikaan vain. Ps. Kalasatamassa on myös pieni auringonottohiekkaranta!
We are starting a regular open Saturday at the Kalasatama containers with all other container groups. This Saturday July 3rd we will have a free flea market (exchanging things like clothes, books...) together with a picnic. Welcome with your old things and picnic food! ps. There is also a small artificial beach for sunbathing in Kalasatama...
- Adding pink speech bubble tabs (available in Saiturinpörssi) in adds with some text on them, for example "Pay for nothing - buy an image." (in Finnish)or "You are what you read." (in Ilta-Sanomat add).
- On metro stations magazine tabloids can be swapped on many locations quite freely.
I have replaced them for example with cartoons (from Gado and Bizarro) and illustrated info on how the advertisers are trying to fool us. This would be nice medium also for counter-advertising. Copying A3 posters with colours in libraries costs 40 cents each.
- Removing in-your-face sticker adds from busses´ seats.
- Some add banners are mounted on bridges that go above heavy traffic roads. Cutting cable ties and removing the entire banner could be done easily. Haven´t done that yet but I once mounted a banner of my own.
- Trying to find a cheap street stand for some poster to confuse people.
more..I like the idea of a fake/confusing poster stand somewhere on a street, or Narinkkatori. The poster would have to be very confusing to catch people's eye, as ads can be quite confusing nowadays as well...
Kaikkien konttilaisten yhteiset ilmoitustaulun + nimikylttien maalaustalkoot tänä sunnuntaina 20.6. kello 15 Kalasataman konttiaukiolla! Tule tutustumaan konttiin ja muihin järjestöihin naapurikonteissa, maalaamaan, hengaamaan ja suunnittelemaan tulevaa.
Painting session of the information board and name tags on the containers in Kalasatama this Sunday at 3pm! Come and see the containers, hang out with other organizations from the neighboring containers and to plan the future.
more..Painting the sames of the containers + an information board on the fence together with all other kontti groups! Meeting and socializing, planning the future.
Kaikki tuovat mukanaan vanhoja, kummallisia, muuten vain käyttämättä jääneitä tai rikki menneitä vaatteita. Ne, joilla on, tuovat ompelukoneen. Muut tuovat lankaa, neuloja, saksia, ratkojia ja muita ompelutarvikkeita tai muita yhdistely- ja leikkelytarvikkeita kuten teippiä tai koristeita.
Vanhat vaatteet esitellään ja jaetaan uudestaan, jokainen valitsee muutaman vaatekappaleen yhdistelmän. Sitten vaatteista suunnitellaan, leikellään, yhdistellään ja ommellaan uusi asu sekalaisilla tekniikoilla! Kokeellisia työtapoja ja uusia ideoita etsitään yhdessä.
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Everyone brings a bunch of old, weird, broken or for any reason discarded clothes. The ones who have a sewing machine, bring one, and everyone else brings all kinds of sewing equipment and related stuff: needles, thread, tape, scissors... but also other tools or decoration that could be used in cloth experiments.
The old clothes are presented to everyone and redistributed. Everyone picks up a couple of items and redesigns them into a new outfit! Experimental techniques are tried out, fun and new ideas for combining clothes are the main thing.
This class will happen right after Midsummer! This Sunday, that I was thinking for the class, is already booked as there will be painting session for the containers at 3pm. Everyone, come and participate! I will let you know soon which day the sewing will be moved to.
Public School Helsinki saa kayttoonsa Helsingin kaupungin tarjoaman kontin Kalasatamassa 12.6.2010 alkaen! 12.6. on Helsinki-paiva, jolloin pidamme kontin avajaiset. Kontteja on tulossa Kalasataman alueelle useita, ja niita kayttavat eri kansalaisjarjestot ja harrastajaporukat, mm. Dodo. Kalasatamassa tapahtuu siis paljon kesan aikana, olemme hyvassa seurassa! Kontit jaavat kayttoon kesan jalkeenkin, ja niita voi kayttaa talvella jos saa sallii.
Kontti on avoin kaikille Public Schoolin toimintaa jarjestaville ja siita kiinnostuneille. Sinne saa vapaasti aikatauluttaa tapahtumia milloin tahansa, silla kontissa ei tapahdu muuta kuin Public Schoolia. Olkaa siis hyvat ja ideoikaa konttiin ja sita ymparoiviin ulkotiloihin mita vain. Jos kontti pitaa lukita, sovimme yhteisen tavan kierrattaa avainta. Tulkaa tsekkaamaan kontti 12.6. ja aikatauluttakaa tapahtumanne sinne!
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more..The container is there and very cozy & beautiful! Feel free to schedule all of your events there from now on - just write me or John to get the door code. Hilla
I cycle everywhere (when the streets aren't covered in ice) but when it comes time to adjust my brake pads, fine-tine my mechs or straighten my wheels, I'm totally and hopelessly lost.
This would be a basic class to demonstrate these techniques and other basic care such as cleaning, etc. Presumably this would be done using the minimum of tools, so people can keep their bikes running smoothly without having to shell out lots of €€€ on specialised equipment.
Dear all,
It would be fantastic to have a Helsinki-based version of this class: http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/1984
(I have not copied the proposal as it would be quite different, including the title, obviously!)
I envision this as a class that meets maybe once per month, each time with a different 'teacher' meeting in a different space across the city. The teacher of that particular week can organise tours around the physical spaces we discuss, and the class (like the Los Angeles one) would focus on spectres -- things that have disappeared, places that have been changed and altered through the inevitable stages of "progress".
Any appropriate readings could be passed around and discussed, likely in Finnish (I only propose this in English because I don't speak Finnish, but please, run this class in your own language! It's about Helsinki, after all!)