1.–11.9.2022

Helsinki Design Week, the largest multidisciplinary design festival in the Nordic countries, is once again taking over the city, the web and the Design Museum Helsinki. At Helsinki Design Week we open a new gallery exhibition What if? Alternative futures and the current main exhibition Design for Every Body will be open until the end of the event week.

The annual theme of the festival is “We are open”, and the Design Museum will take up the theme with various events and discussions. “Staying open and transparent is a prerequisite for critical thinking. Openness is also essential in any development, and integral in the design process. Staying curious and receptive is a choice. Openness also acknowledges its own incompleteness: the design industry is full of contradictions, has unsustainable practices and entails much room for improvement in terms of equality and diversity. ” says Anni Korkman, program director of the Helsinki Design Week festival.