The third international EcoDesign exhibition held in conjunction with the Habitare Fair at the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre 14 – 18 September 2011. The exhibition presented ecological and MultiFunctional products. German Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic invited as guest of honour.

EcoDesign Special Exhibition 2011 wanted to bring the functional usage of space to fore front, which is quite challenging. By “MultiFunction” meant that the product can be functional by the usage of space or the product can be multifunctional itself.

Konstantin Grcic (b. 1965) is one of the world’s most important Industrial designers. Grcic was named Design Miami’s 2010 Designer of the Year, and the same year he won the Wallpaper Design Award in the category of Furniture designer of the year.

The producer and Konstantin Grcic invited top-class international designers and young talents from Finland and abroad to take part in the exhibition. Over a hundred products were showcased.

Images of the exhibition are available here.

Two awards were granted at the Habitare’s EcoDesign special exhibition. The Finnish Fair Foundation granted a EUR 5000 recognition award, which was shared among three designers. Tapio Anttila (Finland) and Björn Dahlström (Sweden) both received EUR 2000 and Eeva Lithovius (Finland) received

EUR 1000. The main partner of the exhibition, Sampo Bank Private Banking, granted the Beyond the Ordinary prize of EUR 2000 to the designer duo Elina and Klaus Aalto (Finland). The guest of honour, German Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic was chair of jury.

Aalto, Elina & Klaus

Aarnio, Eero

Abe, Yuki 

Salonen, Anna

Anttila, Tapio

Ban, Shigeru

Bernstrand, Thomas

Cárdenas, Roberto

Charlot, Michel

Cohen, Nitzan

Dahlström, Björn

Enbom, Henrik

Grcic, Konstantin

Greiling, Katrin

Hai, Fang

Hakaniemi, Jonas

Hakkarainen, Aleksi

Harni, Pekka

Aalto, Elina & Klaus

Aarnio, Eero

Abe, Yuki 

Salonen, Anna

Anttila, Tapio

Ban, Shigeru

Bernstrand, Thomas

Cárdenas, Roberto

Charlot, Michel

Cohen, Nitzan

Dahlström, Björn

Enbom, Henrik

Grcic, Konstantin

Greiling, Katrin

Hai, Fang

Hakaniemi, Jonas

Hakkarainen, Aleksi

Harni, Pekka

Kuitunen, Tero

Kukkapuro, Yrjö

Lahtua-Supply, Anneli 

Supply, Marc

Laihinen, Jalmari 

Hannula, Mikko

Lätti, Juha

Lithovius, Eeva

Merz, Rudi

Musta Design

Naamanka, Samuli

Paakkanen, Mikko

Pauwels, Yves

Pietilä, Jesse

Puintila, Simo

Rashid, Karim

Ripatti, Timo 

Koit, Katrin

Ruoho, Heikki

Sairi, Timo

Santilli, Stefano

Silvennoinen, Antti-Jussi

Smedt De, Julien

Suppanen, Ilkka

Takahashi, Yuka

Takkinen, Jussi

Taskinen, Ahti

Theselius, Mats

Toivanen, Markus

Wang, Suoling 

students (6 designers)

Wiherheimo, Yrjö

Xiaojie, Geng 

students (13 designers)

Zhang, Zhang 

Li, Jianyou