Architecture Outside The Box
Architecture outside the box is a project of the Architecture and Design Museum. The goal of the project is to learn how the museum can collaborate with local communities outside the museum. Local communities can be, for example, groups of friends or neighbors.
Bench Workshop – Architecture Outside the Box
Welcome to the Bench Workshop!
Time:
Saturday 26.10. at 10.00–16.00
Sunday 27.10. at 12.00–18.00
Place:
Culture Center Stoa, Itäkeskus
Turunlinnantie 1, 00900 Helsinki
Everyone is welcome in the Bench Workshop. You can participate without pre-registeration.
Bench Workshop is organized by the members of Architecture Outside the Box -working group.
Is your community missing a bench? Are you tired of having nowhere to sit outdoors? Come make a bench with us!
Bench workshop is an event, where we build and paint benches together. You will get help from the Architecture Outside the Box -working group.
We will provide a couple of bench models. You can choose which one would you want to build for your community. You will find all the tools and materials that you need at the workshop.
At the end of the workshop, participants will take benches for common use to places that they find important. This way we will create places in the city, where people can get together and rest. Through the workshop the working group wants to comment on who is allowed to use public spaces.
Welcome!
Program
Saturday October 26th 10am-4pm
10am Opening words of the Bench Workshop
11pm-4pm Building and painting benches
Sunday October 27th 12pm-6pm
12pm-5pm Building and painting benches
5pm-6pm Communal ending
Place:
Culture Center Stoa, Itäkeskus
Turunlinnantie 1, 00900 Helsinki, Suomi
You can access the event on Facebook via this link.
Culture Center Stoa is physically accessible. You can read about the accessibility information of the culture center via this link.
The participants of the event need follow the safer space principles of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. You can read the principles via this link.
You can take part throughout the event in Finnish and English. Part of the workshop duration you can have guidance in the following languages: Arabic, North-Sámi, Spanish, Somali, Swedish.
The Bench Workshop os the culmination of the Architecture Outside the Box -initiative
The goal of the initiative is to learn ways in which the museum could collaborate with communities outside the museums’ walls.
The museums organized an open call and selected a working group that has been leading the initiative.
The initiative is funded by the Finnish Heritage Agency and produced in collaboration with Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. The event is part of Culture Center Stoa’s 40-year anniversary celebration.
You can read more about the initiative in Finnish via this link.
Architecture Outside the Box -working group consists of the following people:
Angela Abdi Musse
Kamaludin Abdulla
Yolanda Correa
Nikolai Fabricius, Construction assistant
Lotta Hagelin
Naomi Holopainen, Critical friend of the initiative, Ataa Agency
Matti Jänkälä, Project worker in the initiative, Architecture and Design Museum
Arja-Liisa Kaasinen, Head of Learning, Communities and Public Programmes, Architecture and Design Museum
Tiina Lintunen
Nuura Naboulsi
Daniela Pascual Esparza
Kaura Raudaskoski, Producer of Public Programmes, Architecture and Design Museum
Jemina Vainikka Lindholm, Curator of Community Engagement, Architecture and Design Museum
Bruno Zambrano
If you want more information about the initiative or the bench workshop, you can contact the initiative’s project worker Matti Jänkälä via email matti.jankala@mfa.fi or by phone +358447354563.