28.03.2014
Tiedote 17.3.2014 Julkaisuvapaa heti.
A dozen young Finnish architects are going on a city planning crusade. YLE (the Finnish national public broadcasting company) will be broadcasting this new series by the end of the year. The series is named “Rejuvenating the City”. The young architects will be visiting some of the major regional centres such as: Jyväskylä, Oulu and of course Helsinki.
What does a changing Finland look like? What tools do architects have today when encountering new challenges? Are there things to learn for professionals from openness and participation?
Migration and economic growth within the cities have dictated totally new conditions for the development of city centres and complementary building. As a counterweight to busy city life the journey continues to the border regions of the country, to the east and north and out to the archipelago. Here tourism and natural resources have created their identity. Is this enough raw material for a vibrant town?
The aim of the TV series is to bring town planning closer to the city dwellers as well as strengthen their possibilities to make a difference on their own environment.
Public working campaigns can bring an architect’s work closer to the public and thus encourage citizens to a dialogue with planners.
“Finnish Town Planning is encountering more and more various requirements. It is extremely difficult to stand up to these requirements when using traditional town planning”, says one of the young architects behind the planning collective. “Through the traveling architecture clinic we encourage cities, companies and communities to use architecture as a tool for discussion and problem solving”.
