Every year, the IFHP Summer School team welcomes a group of approximately 40 participants from all over the world to the dynamic city of Helsinki. We spend three days in the capital city before the participants are divided into two groups to travel to their final destination – a Finnish case-study city. During our time …
Increasingly, the team of the IFHP Summer School has debated and discussed the social role of planning and how planners should position themselves within the communities in which they will plan, design, or intervene. We ask: is the role of planners to continue to see cities as a ‘tabula rasa’, start from scratch, and make … Continue reading Making, Shaping or Letting Be
It was our last day in the coastal city of Kotka – located in southern Finland – in the summer of 2019. We had just gone through the presentations of all of the Summer School projects and we were about to head back to Helsinki. Before leaving, we wanted to take a final group picture, … Continue reading Looking back
IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School in Finland 