Green Core creates the tropics amid the Flow Festival
Green Core installation offers this year鈥檚 Flow Festival visitors a verdant sitting area for resting. The artwork is created by Group 815, consisting of students of interior architecture. The group includes Karita Asmala, Mindele Grant, Piia Jalkanen, Noora Katajalaakso, Pinja Koskelin, Sanni Rajapolvi, Miika Ruotsalainen, and Sara Urbanski.
Pinja Koskelin relates the birth of the group: 鈥淲e met each other during autumn 2015, when we started our bachelor鈥檚 studies at Arabia campus. Our group just clicked the very moment we met. Now, couple years later, together we have carried out already several art installations, trips abroad, and many evening gatherings.鈥
Koskelin says working in a group is challenging, but also rewarding. 鈥淪ometimes it is even harrowing to work in a close, artistic cooperation with a big group, but it bears fruit. Ideas and implementations go through so many opinions that the end result is something none of us could reach alone. We have learned so much from each other during these years, and we are very thankful for it鈥, she tells.
According to Koskelin, the concept for the installation to be realised at the Flow Festival was formed little by little. 鈥淔low itself inspired us, and other main source of inspiration was our group. The ideas spring up from discussions, from things we encounter, and from our surroundings. Now we combine minimalistic, precise idiom, and the greenness of the jungle鈥, she describes.
The artwork description written by the group gives ideas for experiencing Green Core:
"We can build gardens and we can burn forests, but the nature is raw.
It emerges and radiates.
We can't restrain it or build walls around it.
It flows. Cherish it."
According to Koskelin, Green Core is definitely worth visiting during the Flow Festival. 鈥淕o enjoy a small dose of tropical Helsinki. And, naturally, snap a great Instagram photo鈥, she encourages.
Green Core is realised in cooperation with Sun Effects, a light design company. The takes place 11鈥13 August in Suvilahti, Helsinki. Aalto University is one of the partners of the festival.
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