Friday 25 September

 

Creating Helsinki Christmas lighting through co-design and citizen involvement

 

Helsinki uses co-design project methods to commit all the stakeholders and entrepreneurs in order to make the city a distinctive and coherent Christmas Lighting City. Through co-designing, the City of Helsinki will be aware of the most desirable decorative themes, which central locations to allocate for new Christmas Lighting and the ways even the smallest shops could join this winter celebration of design theme. The aim is to also help and encourage participants to make Helsinki an attractive holiday city by guiding them throughout the whole process, from voting for lighting ornaments to building and storage.

 

Pia Rantanen, Architect, Public Works Department, City of Helsinki

Pia Rantanen has an architecture degree from Tampere University of Technology. She has also studied lighting design, industrial design and naval architecture at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture. While working in the Public Works Department at the City of Helsinki for the past six years, she has specialised in urban design and city scope, bridges, public art and light art, outdoor lighting and service design.

 

Pia Rantanen

 

Sirpa Laitinen

 

Sirpa Laitinen, Interior Architect, IMIAD, Design Studio, WSP Finland Ltd.

Sirpa Laitinen has been working for the Finnish based company WSP since 1989 on versatile urban environment projects. She is an experienced project design manager in the Design Studio unit. Laitinen is specialised in urban lighting and accessibility. It is her ambition to research and develop accessible lighting for all users. Recently she has finalised a study on station environments for “Lighting For All”. She did her postgraduate master thesis in international interior design in 2008 on the experience of using metro stations and their accessible lighting.

 

 


Pia Salmi, Industrial Designer, MA, Design Studio, WSP Finland Ltd.

Pia Salmi is an experienced industrial designer who works as the Design Studio’s unit manager. She specialises in urban townscape design, service design and architectural lighting in multidisciplinary WSP projects. Over the past ten years she has been actively developing the use of user-centric design methods and constant interaction with the citizens and stakeholders in their projects.

 

Pia Salmi