Jaakko blomberg

new participatory city culture & urban activism

YHTEISMAA - COMMON GROUND - IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

FOUNDED in 2012 in Helsinki

SPECIALIZED IN NEW PARTICIPATORY

CITY CULTURE, CO-CREATION, SOCIAL

MOVEMENTS and placemaking

more FUN, FREE,

SUSTAINABLE, RESPONSIBLE

AND SOCIAL

URBAN LIFE

communality

social well-being

environment

cultural diversity

arts

FROM CONSUMER CULTURE TO PARTICIPATORY CULTURE

a network of people

four regular employees, project workers, freelancers, partners,

interns, volunteers

financing

1. work, work, work 2. private companies

3. crowdfunding 4. public support

5. grants & foundations 6. consulting

7. workshops & lectures 8. memberships

Cleaning day

15

dinner under the helsinki sky

before after

living room exhibition

24

home theatre festival

27

parking day

gallery wednesday

more street art to helsinki

PARKING DAYsocial innovators connected

Hoffice helsinkiovertakers

34

nifty neighbour

a year without new clothes

Hoffice helsinkiHoffice helsinki

aleksis kiven katu flea market

restaurant wasted space

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43

44

cake exhibition

stories from the reception centre

Abdullah, 35, fish farmer from Baghdad:

"I was tortured for 20 days. The torturers grinded my ear and the tattoo with my daughter's name was burned. But still I survived. My two cousins who were also captivated were not so lucky: one died and the other one is still missing. Later I was blackmailed when I refused to give money for carrying out illegal actions. Out of revenge my fish pond was filled. My daughters were frightened. Because of their fears they sleep with their trousers on.”

Jassim, 28, taxi driver from Baghdad: ”Militia has taken the power in their own hands. Lots of acts of terror happen and militia captures innocent people to get confessions. I met Abdullah in prison, where we were three years.”

”We are really afraid for our families. We want to bring them here”, men say. Abdullah has a wife and four daughters. Jassim has a wife, two sons and two daughters.

YES IN MY BACKYARD DINNER

THE question is not if you can do it, but how you can do it

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission

Done Is

Better Than

perfect