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Fill This Space 2024

Summer School Letter 2024

Welcome to the Fill This Space Summer School of Architecture and Built Environment for 16-20 year olds!

The summer school is organized at the Design Museum (Korkeavuorenkatu 23, 00130 Helsinki) and the Architecture Museum (Kasarmikatu 24, 00130 Helsinki). In addition, during the summer school, trips are also made to other destinations located in the capital region (HSL area).

This summer school letter contains information and instructions related to the summer school week:

  • Pre-assignment
  • Schedule and program
  • Materials, equipment, trips and meals
  • Accessibility
  • Contact information

Thank you for reading the letter carefully (Note: The letter will be updated if necessary). See you next week!

Pre-assignment: My favorite and least favorite place

What is your favorite place? ​What about least favorite place?​​

Present your favorite place and your least favorite place verbally and visually to the group (5min/person). You can use the following questions to support your reflections:

  • How do you feel in these places?
  • What can you do in these places?​
  • What kind of spaces are these places? (5 adjectives)​
  • What materials are in those spaces?​
  • Why did you choose this space?​
  • How would you present your favorite and least favorite place visually to others? (photograph, video, drawing etc.)

Schedule and Program: Caring Architecture

Monday 10 June

Theme: Caring Architecture and Historical Helsinki
Meeting place: Design Museum (Korkeavuorenkatu 23, 00130 Helsinki)

10–12 Start of the summer school

MFA and DM principles for a safer space and accessibility​
Getting to know each other and pre-assignment​
Summer school programme, practicalities and theme

12–13 Lunch break
13–15 Historical Helsinki walking tour in Eteläranta

Tuesday 11 June

Theme: Maintenance as care – Lapinlahti360
Meeting place: Ruoholahti metro station (00180 Helsinki)

10–12 Visit: Lapinlahden lähde with Frans Saraste

Lapinlahden lähde on taiteen, kulttuurin ja mielen hyvinvoinnin keskus.

@lapinlahdenlahde
www.lapinlahdenlahde.fi

Frans Saraste (M.Arch) is an architectural designer and doctoral researcher specialized in questions of sustainable architecture and living.

12–13 Lunch break
13–15 Sketching assignment at Lapinlahti

Wednesday 12 June

Theme: Reuse as care
Meeting place: Amos Rex (Mannerheimintie 22–24, 00100 Helsinki)

10–12 Visit: Amos Rex

Amos Rex offers unique and surprising experiences through presenting new, often experimental, contemporary art. I feel, for now is Amos Rex’s first exhibition of works from its own collections on this scale and takes us through the art into emotions. The more than a hundred artworks chosen for the exhibition carry us from isolation to empathy, from ecstasy to nostalgia.

@amoskonst
www.amosrex.fi

12–13 Lunch break
13–15 Sketching assignment continues

Thursday 13 June

Theme: Who do you care for?
Meeting place: Design Museum (Korkeavuorenkatu 23, 00130 Helsinki)

10–12 Visitor: Elina Koivisto from Suomi/Koivisto

Elina Koivisto is an architect (M.Sc. Aalto University 2013). Suomi/Koivisto is an architectural duo working in the field of environmental architecture based in Helsinki, Finland. Alusta pavilion is a pavilion which was built in the spring 2022 on the courtyard between the Design Museum and Museum of Finnish Architecture. The pavilion explores the relation between nature and culture and offers a place for encounters between humans and non-human animals in urban space.

@suomikoivisto
www.met-a.fi

12–13 Lunch break
13–15 Sketching assignment continues

Friday 14 June

Theme: FIXing as care
Meeting place: Design Museum (Korkeavuorenkatu 23, 00130 Helsinki)

10–12 Installation in the Design Museum’s studio space and guided tour to the FIX: Care and Repair exhibition
12–13 Lunch break (The Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum offer lunch!)
13–13.30 Visit: Collections, Archive and Library of the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum

The Museum of Finnish Architecture’s collections focus on the period after the year 1900. The aim of the collection activity is to record and review the creative process of an architect. The collections contain 500,000 drawings, 120,000 photographs and 800 scale models.​ The Design Museum’s collections are extensive and versatile and they shed light on the history and evolution of industrial arts in Finland. The collections include 75,000 objects, 45,000 drawings, and 125,000 images, with a data bank containing information on over 1,000 designers. The Museum of Finnish Architecture’s libary is a special library available to everyone. Books can also be borrowed. The collections contain a total of about 26,000 works from books to magazines and from interviews to correspondence.

14–15 End of the summer school

Reflections
Feedback
Survey

Materials, equipment, trips and meals

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Participation in the summer school is free of charge. The museums do not reimburse the costs of meals or accommodation from the summer school. Part of the activity is organized outdoors, so please prepare for the school days with weather-appropriate clothing and equipment. It’s good to have sunscreen and a bottle of water with you!

Materials and equipment

The Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum provide the necessary materials and equipment for summer school activities. Each participant receives a sketchbook and a pen from the museums at the beginning of the summer school. The participants’ own devices may also be used in summer schools. This will be mentioned separately.

Trips

All trips during the summer school week take place in the HSL area. Participants have had the opportunity to request a five-day HSL ticket (AB) from the museums if their own travel card is not valid during the summer school week or is not available. HSL tickets purchased in advance will be distributed to the persons who requested them at the beginning of the first day of the summer school.

Meals

Each summer school day includes a one-hour lunch break, for which it is good to bring your own snacks. The Design Museum has a refrigerator and a microwave oven. On Friday, the museums offer lunch for the entire summer school group. Diets, allergies and wishes regarding a shared lunch are collected during the summer school week.

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Accessibility

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Accessibility

You can find more information about the accessibility of the Museum of Finnish Architecture at this link.
You can find more information about the accessibility of the Design Museum at this link.

Principles for a safer space

Architecture and design belong to everyone. We at the Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture want everyone to have the opportunity to have a safe museum experience and participate as themselves, without fear of discrimination or harassment. You can find more information about the principles for a safer space at this link.

Health safety

  • If you are sick or have flu symptoms, please do not attend the summer school.
  • Please remember to take care of good hand hygiene.
  • Cough into your sleeve or tissue.
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Contact information

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WhatsApp group

You have been added to your summer school Whatsapp group with your consent. In the group, it is possible to discuss and ask questions related to school activities before and during the summer school. You can leave the group after the end of summer school.

Instructors

The instructors of the summer school are Annabel Kajetski, occupational therapist, contemporary artist and a museum pedagogue at the Design Museum and Museum of Finnish Architecture, and Seela Pentikäinen, a member of the You Tell Me collective and an architect.

Contact persons

Jemina Vainikka Lindholm (they/them)
Curator of Community Engagement
+358 45 7731 0476
jemina.lindholm@mfa.fi

Elina Battarbee
Producer of Public Programs
+358 50 366 7951
elina.battarbee@designmuseum.fi

Museum of Finnish Architecture
Kasarmikatu 24
00130 Helsinki
Location on the map

Design Museum
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
00130 Helsinki
Location on the map

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