This year the most important criteria for the works on display was the life-cycle, hence the design itself played a major role. Approximately 65 interesting and innovative works were showcased.

The curator of the exhibition was Finnish Architect Marco Casagrande, born 1971 in Turku, Finland. He graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology Department of Architecture in 2001. From the early stages of his career Casagrande started to mix architecture with other disciplines of art and science landing with a series of ecologically conscious architectural installations around the world.

Casagrande’s works and teaching are moving freely in-between architecture, landscape architecture, urban and environmental design and science, environmental art and circus adding up into cross-over architectural thinking of “commedia dell’architettura”, a broad vision of built human environment tied

into social drama and environmental awareness.

“There is no other reality than nature”. He views architects as design shamans merely interpreting what the bigger nature of the shared mind is transmitting.

Marco Casagrande is the Principal of the Casagrande Laboratory (2003-), a Finland based internationally operating cross-over architectural/artistic studio and a former co-owner of the Architect Office Casagrande & Rintala (1999-2003). Casagrande is WEAK! together with Hsieh Ying-Chun and Roan Ching-Yueh.

EcoDesign Exhibition arranged in conjunction with the Habitare Fair, 10 – 14 September 2014 at the Messukeskus, Expo and Convention centre Helsinki.

Images of the exhibition are available here.

Five designers were awarded with the EcoDesign recognition award at the opening on September 10. The recognition award (EUR5000) granted by the Finnish Fair Foundation shared among Juri Karinen, Mikko Paakkanen, Kari Leppälä, Rudi Merz and Esa Vesmanen. Curator Marco Casagrande acted as chair of jury.

Lexus Creating Amazing Award (EUR2000) granted by main partner Lexus Finland was given to Simo Serpola and Shogo Tamura.

Congratulations from the EcoDesign team!

Aalto, Elina & Klaus

Aalto, Kaija 

Ahola, Erika

Anttila, Tapio

Alander, Annariina

Axelsson, Åke

Elo, Susan

Enqvist, Eetu

Halla-aho, Henri

Harni, Pekka

Haverinen, Elina 

Tuomela, Anna

Heikkilä, Inkeri

Heikkinen, Annika

Helavuo, Samuli

Helenius, Elina

Hoisko, Timo

Korpela, Matti

Holén, Nanni

Holmberg, Kaarle

Huhtakangas, Laura

Huotari, Marianne

Inkeroinen, Jenni

Jelusic, Luka

Jobs, Nina

Kankkunen, Matti 

Ikäheimo, Annika

Karinen, Juri

Kukkapuro, Yrjö

Kärki, Anne

Leppälä, Kari

Liesimaa, Noora

Ludi Architects

Mecklin, Max

Merz, Rudi

Naamanka, Samuli

Nyman, Kasper

Orispää, Tuomas 

Aho, Onni

Paakkanen, Mikko

Palomaa, Anna

Partanen, Milja

Pauwels, Yves

Pietilä, Jesse

Puoskari, Maija

Pått, Irina

Pärnänen, Inni 

Huotari, Marianne

Randerbrock, Lea

Ripatti, Timo

Rouvinen, Katja

Ruoho, Heikki

Sandelin, Sebastian

Santilli, Stefano

Serpola, Simo

Sievänen, Veera

Sirelä, Minni

Somervuori, Minttu

Suvila, Fanni

Syrjälä, Matti

Takahashi, Yuka

Tamura, Shogo

Taskinen, Ahti

Tzabari, Meital

Ulvio, Elina

Vesmanen, Esa

Ylivaara, Heli