WELTSTADT

WELTSTADT is traveling to Helsinki for this year's Pixelache festival!

This year's Pixelache festival, entitled Living Spaces, concentrates on the urban environment of Helsinki and tries to use any potential city space, whether public, private or in-between, as a playground for the festival's manifestations of creative and participatory culture. Instead of being based in one static location, the festival employs cultural decentralisation as a methodology, spreading its activities across the centre and periphery of this dynamic, constantly evolving city. The increasingly diverse makeup of urban life seeds the festival activities, which build from Pixelache's past work on the emerging boundary of technology and art while also seeking new trans-disciplinary openings. Living Spaces aims to empower Helsinki's citizens to be active components of cultural decentralisation.

The exhibition will be shown at Laituri from 25 September through 17 October 2015.

The opening event was followed by a panel discussion with several Helsinki-based thinkers and organisers, moderated by Pixelache Festival directors John W. Fail and Agnieszka Pokrywka: Otso Kivekäs (Helsinki City Council); Mikko Fritze (Goethe Institut, Helsinki); Hilla Rudanko (architect/Uusi Kaupunki); Maija Faehnle (University of Helsinki) and Leona Lynen (Weltstadt Editor)

The Helsinki exhibition of Weltstadt: Who Creates the City? was made possible by Laituri and the Goethe Institut of Finland.













all images © Leona Lynen