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

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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

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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 

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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

Visiting Globe Hope

My first visit to Globe Hope was not as fruitful as the others, because i could not get the name of the designers. But their propositions are quite wide. 
But after a couple of visits and some conversations with staff, i think i could understand the philosophy of Seija Lukkala.


Globe Hope has two shops, one in Kiseleff, Aleksanterinkatu 28, the other in Kluuvi, Aleksanterinkatu 33


http://www.globehope.com/en/
in their webpage we can read

Globe Hope is an innovative Finnish design company that makes ecological design out of recycled materials. Globe Hope re-defines used and leftover materials, turning them into unique design clothes and accessories. All Globe Hope production relies on sustainable development, thus a part of Globe Hope's mission is to offer people an ecological and sustainable choice. globe Hope wants to encourage people to a more sustainable and nature-friendly way of thinking. Globe Hope’s collections that consist of clothing and accessories save and reuse nature’s resources and respect ethical production. Globe Hope’s main goal is to design goods that are aesthetic, functional and idea-rich - the use of recycled materials is a bonus. Globe Hope's ideology can be summarized in three keywords: ecology, ethics and aesthetics.

The materials are intriguing, old sails, old blankets, the cover of the Olympic Stadium tower during the renovation, advertising banners, and many other interesting matters. As well as in Edel, they use organic cotton or bambu for textiles.
They produce the clothes and objects themselves.

some time ago this was a banner 

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Visiting Edel

Coming back to the place where everything started, or almost: in our first training day we visited Edel in Punanuori (Frederikinkatu 33).
In february, I visited their shop in Kluuvi (Aleksanterinkatu 9) I met Isabella and Marko Rosow, Edel´s owners. She promised to explain more about their products. They have had a workshop to do a present for friends ourselves,  but it was too late for me.  Pity.
In the shops, we can find the works of Jaana Tuomisto, Mifuko, EloQ, 101, Johanna Palo, Ainokainen, Manner´s, Private Case, Zillion, Jenni Kallio, Taru Norberg, Kati-riina, nobad, defender, Oskar Haas, Taija Leinonen, Janne, Jukka Isotalo, and many others. Not all the designers are in both shops, but maybe this is part of the charm.
Edel´s  motto " Spoil yourself without spoiling the environment" 

the metal work of Laurase 

http://www.edelcity.com/
  

private case, by Ari Korolainen

the ties of ainokainen are a part of slow fashion

what was first design or imagination?

some Jaana Tuomisto works

the bags from Sirpa Eloranta, EloQ

Janne Erkkilä, leftovers ?

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Visiting bElles

bElles, baskets pour elles, in Lasipalatsi, is s small company that sells very special sports and hip hop shoes. But they also have jewelry and clothes made with recycled material. Some of them:

earrrings by Laura Puska

made out of beauty magazines

Jacket made with recycled clothes by Marika Peura & Kaisa Nieminen

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Nannanda jewelries are unique, handmade pieces made mainly from recycled materials found from random places. Old coins fallen from indian dancers' clothing, broken belt parts abandoned in floors, parts found from old flea markets, animal bones found from Siberia's forrests - everywhere is the next treasure waiting to be discovered. Every piece is created out of intuition guided by planet Venus, the force of creativity, beauty and love. The root for the name "Ananda" is a sanskrit word meaning "bliss". As such Ananda's meaning can be said to be "great joy" or "great happiness".


text from Hanna Ruax blog
http://hannasnest.blogspot.com/

101 - jewelery made out of used skateboards

 - picture leena virkkunen (c)