a very interesting and important initiative! for 12.05.12

http://siivouspaiva.com/english.php

Clean up your attic and redecorate your home, as Cleaning Day will convert cities into giant flea markets on Saturday 12th of May. Anyone can sell or donate their furniture, clothes, gadgets and more, right on the street, and shop new ones from their neighbors. During this neat day one can also sell anything self-made.

Stands could be set anywhere you like, but please pay attention to other people and safety instructions and ask permission if it is needed. Cleaning day is a neat day, so take care of your stuff and clean up your mess also in public places.

On the map page you can browse the stands and search them by opening hours or different categories. Anyone with a Facebook account can add his own stand to the map regardless of its location, but it isn’t obligatory.

no, i did not forget Design Forum

Among many other designers´products, we can find the recycled one from Poola Kataryna, Mifuko, Minna Karhu, Private Case, Cecilia Sorensen, Costo, MottoForm, Purjebagit, and of course the chairs Compos of Samuli Naamanka, to sit comfortable while enjoying a cup of coffee-

broches, recycled plastic - Minna Karhu

Purjebagit

mifuko containers

recycled textiles

pictures ruthrubin ©

i would like to talk about all of them!

"bottle crap" cut by Jukka Isotalo, Evolum, Helsinki

how i like his work!!

More from Recycling Factory!!
I would like to have the time, the space to talk to all of them, without transforming this blog in a list of names and products. 

Poola Kataryna

leftovers from textile or leather industry 

recycled by Paula Kasurinen

the work of Jaime de Vizcaya, Toinen Elämä, recycled rubber, in the stand of Paloni, a shop in Punavuori

pictures ruthrubin ©

fantastic kaapelitehdas!!!

On Saturday 5th May I visited the Recycling Factory in Kaapelitehdas. It was like a party, admiring designs, talking with designers, listening to their stories, enjoying life. Everything about what to do to live more ecologically, more ethical, thinking more about social justice and sustainable development. GDP is not everything in life.  Some pictures, some contacts, some information. 

recycling, recycling, everything, even the books: put them to re-circulate!

mum´s - lamps made with plastic bottles, from Turku 

beautiful Adddrama necklaces, silver spoons and art,
Susanna Nurminen, Turku

the bags from Eloq, old jeans, dyed.
Sirpa Eloranta, Forssa 

In Rovaniemi, Janne transform old cassettes into wallets, and use leftovers from parquets to make jewelry 

pictures ruthrubin ©

looking forward to visit....

http://www.kierratystehdas.fi/front-page/
5 - 6.05.12 -
from their page

Press release, 25 April 2012


Recycling Factory event offers ways to consume ecologically and responsibly

Recycling Factory event, to be organised at the Cable Factory 5-6 June, offers tips and advice for sustainable lifestyle and ecological consuming. The Sales Market presents a variety of products from over 50 companies. These products, manifactured of recycled materials, are great gifts for instance for Mother’s day. Among the other activities, workshops offer a place to do fabulous creations out of recycled materials and the Free of Charge Market functions as a place to recycle usable items.

The Energy Factory, to be organised in connection with the Recycling Factory event, offers various tips of saving energy and ways of reducing your carbon footprint. Moreover, there is a change of reparing your own bicycle and learn more about the new Bicycle centre, to be opened at Kamppi inJune.

The event is open from Saturday to Sunday at 10-17:00, and there is a free entrance to the event.

http://www.kierratyskeskus.fi/plan_b/

from their pages
 Always in trashion
Plan B is a unique line of products made of reused materials. The products are made by hand in the Reuse Centre's dress making shop and workshop from materials given for recycling.
The Plan B line of products includes modified clothes and accessories, made-to-order clothes, interior design products, furniture, and jewellery.


 and ....

The Helsinki Metropolitan Area Reuse Centre currently has five shops in the Helsinki region. An ever-changing variety of goods are for sale, for example furniture, clothes, toys, books, sports equipment, cookware and cutlery. The shops (except Design Shop) have also a department in which things are given free of charge.

and, and ....

will we be in a hurry?

products - designers - so much to learn
the good plan doesn´t work. i´ll have to change the places. 
bElles ok, 
i would prefer to go to Edel in Punavuori and to Globe Hope in Kiseleff, but... maybe we could go, isn´t so far away... two plans 

important to note:
target groups:
1- people with some ecological awareness
2- design students
3- school students interested in fashion and environment
4- public in general
5- tourists interested in design and recycling


and ... not just in Finland

from Venezuela, skirt made from recycled jeans, bag made with old tires and seat belt

The Plan

The philosophy

For me, the important of this tour is to show that we can make much more than we think from material that normally we don´t regard it as such, that we throw too many things, thinking that it´s garbage. But recycling it´s not all. We could recycle and create useless objects. The main point for me is the creation of beauty, beautiful and useful products, with these materials.  

Plan for the design exam tour "Recycled Design"


15.00 - Meeting in Lasipalatsi - Mannerheimintie 22-24, inside yard

15.05 - Explanation of the visit

15.10 - Visit shop bElles

15.25 - Visit shop Globe Hope15.40 - Walking until Aleksanterinkatu 33

15.50 - Visit Shop Edel city

16.10 - end of the exam-tour

In case of urgent need, the break could be in Kluuvi

This is not the plan for a real tour.

private case