JTP Lead Workshop for Innovative Finnish Development
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JTP Lead Workshop for Innovative Finnish Development

Published on 14 April 2015

A team including Partner Fred London and Andreas von Zadow recently carried out a ground-breaking, participatory workshop with a group of 30 purchasers of house plots in Harjanne, a newly developing area of Vuores, the eco-town of Tampere, Finland.

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Saturday was a success! The participants enjoyed it very much and were inspired to think of the process in a new way.
Kirsti Toivonen, Project Manager

The first development of its kind, the workshop was the opportunity for future neighbours to adapt the individual designs they had been developing so as to optimise the layouts in relation to one another. For example, significant gains were made where neighbours agreed that their garages could be joined together to create more generous front gardens areas, which also gave rise to discussions about adjusting the streetlights to more convenient positions. Colours and material choices were considered as were ideas about how front boundary treatments could be unified to create an integrated, harmonious environment.

Subsequent to the workshop, JTP hosted the Tulli Town Team which included a presentation to the London office, as well as a visit to local urban regeneration projects and innovative, exemplar ‘meanwhile uses’ which have inspired the cultural regeneration of Tulli.