Posts Tagged ‘Helsinki’

Fighting homelessness: the role of cities

Laura Colini, URBACT programme expert gives an overview of the Policy LAB and URBACT Knowledge Hub initiative’s collaboration with FEANTSA and the Mairie de Paris, following their December 2018 gathering to share information, exchange local practices and launch collaboration among small, medium and large administrations in Europe to combat homelessness. Inaccessible, inadequate, unaffordable, undignified, insecure […]

By Laura Colini, on February 7th, 2019 at 09:18

Helsinki: World Design Capital 2012

Helsinki, partner city in the URBACT CTUR project,  has been designated “World Design Capital” in 2012: as Pekka Timonen, Director of the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 foundation, said, it is a ‘dynamic’ designation and not a ‘prize’. Helsinki has been selected by the world design community. Focus is on the use of design for […]

By URBACT, on October 26th, 2011 at 15:50