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 

pictures ruthrubin ©

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 ?

pictures ruthrubin ©

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

pictures ruthrubin ©

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)

CleanDesign Center, Lahti

Among the most stimulating designers and their works that we could approach in the visit to the CleanDesign Center, i would like to introduce this....

design Shigeru Ban, chair made out of recycled plastic

benches designed by Heikki Ruoho 
material: recyclable (to paper) sensor board

Designed by Jukka Isotalo
Evolum Oy
Material: industrial recycled bottles

the top of the Compos chairs are made out of polymers from linen and corn sugar - designed by Samuli Naamanka 

Some amazing examples of row recycled material and their applications from CleanDesign

pictures ruthrubin ©

Focusing in recycling - Lahti

 Tapio Anttila, Päivi Ronkainen-Forsius

 Lahti, Town Hall, ceiling detail












It was Friday March 23rd when we visited Lahti, one of the cities of World Design Capital 2012, very well guided by Maaria Piukkala. Many inspiring designers, like Tapio Anttila, who gave us a presentation about his work in an equally inspiring place, MuotoHuoltamo. For me, since i was trying to focus in my research, the most important part of the visit was the tour in Clean Design Center. There, Rikka Salokkanel, design development manager, explained to the group, among other subjects the philosophy of the company, the new materials made from recycled material, objects, furniture, ideas, all with the same starting point the re-use and transformation of materials that already had lived their own cycle.

 Lahti, Town Hall, entrance hall, detail

Lahti, Town Hall some colleagues.

pictures ruthrubin©