5x3 Design Visions
5 Feb - 9 Dec 2012 Copper Smithy, Fiskars


5x3 Design Visions is a series of five design exhibitions to be held at the Copper Smithy in Fiskars from 5 February to 9 December 2012.

5x3 Design Visions continues the year-round exhibition activities of the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars, which have launched alongside its established summer exhibitions. The series is one of the events produced by the Fiskars Cooperative as part of the programme of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.

5x3 Design Visions will display interesting Finnish and foreign design in five exhibitions, each of which will feature three individual designers or groups of designers. The invited participants are both established masters of their field and young designers at the beginning of their careers. The materials and techniques that they use follow the principles of sustainable development. The designers also share a unique and fresh attitude to their work.

These exhibitions invite viewers into the designer's "kitchen", where often things of possibly greater interest take place than in the "drawing-room". This experience is reinforced by presenting the design process with sketches, scale models and prototypes alongside the final versions. We hope the result will be a continuum of intimate showings in which visitors can follow the work of designers more closely than in traditional exhibitions of design.

The designers of the 5x3 Design Visions series

Exhibition working group

Professor Simo Heikkilä, tel. 040 050 3462, simo (at) periferiadesign.fi
Lecturer Martin Relander, tel. 040 592 4992, martin.relander (at) aalto.fi
Exhibition secretary Mette Pakkala, tel. 040 844 1496, mette.pakkala (at) gmail.com

Further information

Contact the members of the exhibition working group (above), or:
the office of the Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists in Fiskars, tel. 019 277 7500, onoma (at) onoma.org, www.onoma.org
FiskarsInfo, tel. 019 277 7504, fiskars.info (at) fiskars.fi, www.fiskarsvillage.fi