Helsinki Design Week
Aleksi Poutanen, 2019.
Helsinki Design Week is the largest international design festival in the Nordic countries. Held annually in September, the multidisciplinary festival presents design from a number of fields as well as fashion, architecture and urban culture.
Helsinki Design Week presents the new faces and phenomena of design, promotes design internationally in collaboration with various partners, and offers citizens a forum to participate in developing and discussing the city and its culture. The festival programme contains around 250 events every year, and includes events targeted to both professionals and the general public.
The Helsinki Design Week main events are produced by Helsinki Design Week and its main partners. The programme is produced in cooperation with national and international stakeholders and an extensive event-planning network. The Helsinki Design Week programme is completed with selected events from an open call for programme entries. In 2019 close to 14,000 people visited the festival’s main exhibitions at the Erottaja 2 palace.
The festival programme takes place in a variety of event spaces spread throughout the city: from museums to markets, from seminar halls to secret shops. The festival also actively seeks new spaces and ways to explore the city.