The Finnish Institute seeks to network different activities, with an outlook to positively changing society and culture. It also aims to promote Finnish design ideals within each scheme, promoting its ethics and identity in a beneficial way. Our brief was to understand what Newcastle could offer the Institute and what sort of client and activity could be established. Firstly an initial prototype design was required, exploring a specific activity, I chose to look at ‘Urban Farms’ and how food could enrich and help educate an urban population. Finland’s rapid and forced industrialised urbanisation contrasts its historic relationship with the Forrest and nature. I wanted to address this void and help realign nature within the city. Aquaponics was then used in the prototype, a process that mixes fish culture and hydroponics to create a soilless urban farm.
