The day focused on recycling as a trend in Finnish design. How can one make fashion from a one-piece hospital gown, leftover milk packaging or old bicycle tyres?
Pirjo Hirvonen of the Helsinki University of Applied Arts and Katalin Sárváry of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest's Textile Faculty showed how young Hungarian and Finnish designers could create treasure out of trash at a roundtable talk. In the afternoon, the museum organised a workshop for reusable materials. In the evening, it hosted a fashion show of recycled clothing made especially for bicyclists.
The day launched a programme that will continue online, in the form of a cyclist blog, complete with photos, of design in practice. And it will finish on October 30 with performances in the Museum of Ethnography.
Author: Eszter Götz
