NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for a discussion with the organizers and editors of The Next Helsinki competition and the new book The Helsinki Effect. Presenters include Terike Haapoja, Miguel Robles-Durán, Andrew Ross, Michael Sorkin, and Sharon Zukin.

Helsinki was the chosen site for the Guggenheim Museum’s latest effort to replicate the much-contested ''Bilbao Effect.'' But in 2015, advocates of better methods for fusing the arts and urbanism had a different idea. They launched an alternative design competition, The Next Helsinki, which amplified a public debate about the role of culture in economic development that has consequences far beyond the Finnish case-study.

The Helsinki Effect archives the hundreds of entries submitted to the competition and includes essays by leading urbanists, artists, and architects about its significance. It is a blueprint for successful resistance: in 2016, the Guggenheim lost its bid to build the museum.

Detail information about the event can be seen in the website. 

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