Find the books that were made available during our workshops on the occasion of the Helsinki Children’s Design Week 2019

The Estonian Children's Literature Center and Koja Agency, literary agency specializing in children’s and young adult books, based in Stockholm, Sweden, have supported our "Secret garden" workshops (13, 14 & 15th September 2019 - Helsinki Children's Design Week). These books have helped children to find inspiration to draw their own "Secret garden" illustrations on recycled garments... Continue Reading →

October 12, 2019

Experiencing Oodi, an ode to design

(Cover picture: http://www.stadissa.fi) The brand new Oodi central library in Helsinki, Finland, has been our first encounter with Finnish design and architecture... one of the finest, that goes without saying. Oodi will play an important part in our project, as it is an extremely inspiring place both for it's building concept and for it's unique... Continue Reading →

June 5, 2019

Preparing a travel with a child (Finland)

We’ll be heading to Sweden, Finland and Estonia soon, as a first travel to prepare our WEAR-ABOUTS Sea project. Having a child is a powerful change and driver in one’s life as it impacts all aspects of it, work included. Numerous mothers (and fathers we hope), newly called “Mom entrepreneurs”, are creating new projects or... Continue Reading →

May 19, 2019

The Journey Begins

WEAR-ABOUTS project, awarded by WORTH Partnership Project (EU COSME Programme) will be starting soon. It is time for the team to start to plan forthcoming activities and a first travel in Finland, Estonia and Sweden for June 2019. One of the first steps for this travel preparation, will be to select the places where we... Continue Reading →

April 13, 2019

WEAR-ABOUTS – The project

WEAR-ABOUTS is part of the wider concept, addressing different European regions and having thus a transnational approach (targeting several neighboring countries). WEAR-ABOUTS first concept was created by Laetitia Barbu and Ruxandra Lupu joined her to develop the project with a co-creative perspective. WEAR-ABOUTS projects are involving a series of partners from different countries throughout Europe... Continue Reading →

March 4, 2019