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Professor Jewkes was awarded the MRS President’s Medal 2021 for her work researching how prison design can rehabilitate rather than punish offenders.
Drivers rushed to tank up when the pump price at three stations in western Finland plummeted overnight to 14 cents/litre.
Millions of kilogrammes of the country's recycled clothing and textiles will now be made into more than just woven rag rugs.
Many describe the work of Alvar Aalto as an embodiment of the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk (a total work of art), where architecture, design, and art merge into one. The Finnish architect is a pioneer in the so-called organic strand of modern architecture in the early 20th century and has strongly influenced what we know today as Scandinavian architecture. According to a description on the MoMA website: "his work reflected a deep desire to humanize architecture through an unorthodox handling of shapes and materials that was rational and intuitive." Its methods of bringing natural light into bu...
Fashion/textiles Finnish textiles raise standards for green lifestyles Innovation is bursting at the seams in the Finnish sustainable textile ecosystem, where a solid engineering base is meeting a new breed of creatives to deliver us from fast fashion. Samuli Ojala Share Millennials have been accused of ruining a great number of things from dinner dates to napkins and relationships. Whilst the recent renaissance of Juicy Couture, chokers or the Y2K aesthetic may have raised an eyebrow or two, there is a silver lining in the Millennial-led revival of noughties’ vintage. This gener...