Eight and a half solutions for the Nordic country.
Welcome to Finland, a young land of rapid aging, where newly founded institutions are already outmoded and geographic impediments are a constant crippling agent. As part of
Ingo Niermann's Solution Series,
Solution Finland: The Welfare Game by architect Martti Kalliala with writer and curator Jenna Sutela and architect Tuomas Toivonen, addresses the Nordic country's numerous predicaments.
The three authors offer readers eight and a half solutions to their native country's quandaries, ranging from the absurd (the implementation of fiction-mongering emissaries to boost tourism) to the earnest, if far-reaching (the repurposing of the country to host nuclear waste).
Solution Finland elucidates the northern country's modern history as a nation under construction, proposing that its identity remain a malleable myth, in which designing a more tenable future is the conduit for crucial adaptation.
Martti Kalliala (born 1980) is a Finnish architect based in London.
Jenna Sutela (born 1983 in Turku, Finland, lives and works in Berlin) and her studio work on "living sculptures", images, and sound that explore open systems in biology, computation, and language.
Tuomas Toivonen (born 1975) is an architect, musician and educator who operates the renowned Kulttuurisauna public bath and cultural space in Helsinki.
