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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Arabianrannan Portaali -Virtual Village
Arabianranta has one of Helsinki’s biggest student concentrations, composed of the students of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, the Helsinki Pop and Jazz Conservatory, the Faculty of Culture and Services of the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia, an audiovisual educational institution and Arcada, the Finland-Swedish University of Applied Science.
Arabianranta is home to many small companies with connections to design and media.
Arabianranta is located on the beach of the Vanhakaupunki district.
www.arabianrannanportaali.fi /english/virtualvillage.html   (336 words)

  
  Arabianranta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arabianranta is a fast growing residential part of Helsinki, Finland.
Arabianranta also houses the famous "Arabia"-factory known for its ceramic and glassware design and products.
The "Arabianranta" itself is situated on the bayside of Hämeentie, a street beginning at Hakaniemi and continuing northwards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arabianranta   (139 words)

  
 Helsinki: Arabianranta
Arabianranta district, on the other hand, does not have any harbour activities, and therefore it will probably be the next one of the new residential areas on Vironniemi peninsula.
In the case of Arabianranta, this is certainly needed to rise the status to the level of future building cost.
Arabianranta is going to be Helsinki's weapon in the 'war of places', as called by Harri Andersson (1997: 115).
www.helsinki.fi /jarj/mao/urban/arabia.html   (991 words)

  
 MIT CRE : Case Studies - Arabianranta
The Helsinki Virtual Village in Arabianranta is both a cybercommunity and a physical community.
Arabianranta is a mixed-use development centered on themes of art, design, and culture.
These companies are using Arabianranta as a real-world experiment in community networking.
web.mit.edu /cre/research/ncc/casestudies/arabianranta.html   (548 words)

  
 EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Arabianranta - area construction project
Artistic collaboration in the area construction of the Arabianranta district; one of the special features of the new housing development: 1-2% of the acquisition cost of the plots has to be dedicated to art.
The Arabianranta district is well known for the high quality housing, with the special feature of unique artworks in public and semi public spaces such as hall and doorways and common yards.
Arabianranta is being developed into a ‘Living Lab’, which means combing the everyday needs and experiences of the people who live, work and study in Arabianranta with research and product and service innovation and development taking place in the educational institutions and companies located in the area.
www.eukn.org /eukn/themes/Urban_Policy/Housing/Housing_quality/Housing_design_and_standards/arabianranta_1010.html   (1359 words)

  
 City of Helsinki Urban Facts
One of the planning innovations in Helsinki's new city district Arabianranta are the common yards with a block structure opening towards the sea bay.
The book is divided in three parts, the first part deals with the planning and construction, the second with residents' thoughts about their new housing district, and the third with the cultural hub of educational institutions and enterprises in the fields of art and media concentrated in the area.
In Arabianranta it is the public authority leverage which has been used together with other stakeholders which has made the adoption of novel and alternative solutions possible.
www.hel2.fi /tietokeskus/tiedotteet/07_01_31_kangasoja_eng.html   (445 words)

  
 Arabianrannan Portaali -Location
Arabianranta is located on the beach of the Vanhakaupunki district, the area where Helsinki was originally founded.
Arabianranta is on the ‘Kantakaupunki’ central peninsula of Helsinki, and is only 10 minutes from downtown Helsinki.
The building of a tram line right into the heart of Arabianranta in front of Portaali was begun in 2000 and was finished in August 2004.
www.arabianrannanportaali.fi /english/location.html   (275 words)

  
 Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition
A good place to start the art tour of the Arabianranta neighbourhood is in the reading room of the Aralis Library, where stained-glass works of Petri Hytönen can be seen.
In Arabianranta, the contractors that have built housing there have used between one and two percent of the construction investment for artistic purposes.
She says that Arabianranta has a community feel to it in any case, but that the art adds to the sense of togetherness.
www.hs.fi /english/print/1135219743219   (858 words)

  
 Teamware | Customer Solutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Helsinki Virtual Village is a public-private initiative, that was established in order to develop the new Arabianranta area into a virtual community providing the companies and residents of the area with the services and technology that the information society has to offer.
Today there are around 300 small and medium-sized companies in the Arabianranta district, but in about ten years, when the area's construction is finished the community will include 9.000 employees, 12.000 residents and 6.000 students.
The goal of ADC Oy is to develop the Arabianranta area into a virtual community where those living, working and studying in the area are able to interact with each other within traditional village community ethos.
www.teamware.net /Resource.phx/customers/case/virtual-village.htx   (583 words)

  
 Masters of Arts Festival 2006, Behind MoA
This year we have invited other educational institutes in Arabianranta to join us in constructing the extensive and scintillating city event that is Masters of Arts.
Arabianranta should soon be an inner city district with 10 000 residents, 8 000 workers and 6 000 students.
Arabianranta has achieved its goal of being the leading centre of art and design excellence.
www.mastersofarts.fi /moa2006/eng/taustalla.php   (2271 words)

  
 Teamware Group - Customer Case - Helsinki Virtual Village
Helsinki Virtual Village is a public-private initiative, that was established in order to develop the new Arabianranta area, Art and Design City, into a virtual community providing the companies and residents of the area with the services and technology that the information society has to offer.
Today there are around 300 small and medium-sized companies in the Arabianranta district, but in about ten years, when the area's construction is finished the community will include 8.000 employees, 12.000 residents and 4.000 students.
Once the residential area of Arabianranta is completed and the new residents start to move in, the services will be expanded to cover also the home users.
www.teamware.com /plaza/cases/virtual_village.htm   (569 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Say you move into one of the new homes in Arabianranta and log on to HVV for the first time, using a communicator, \hich\af32\dbch\af28\loch\f32 a conventional PC, or a digital TV.
In Arabianranta, Yrjo Simojoki, the pastor of the local Lutheran church on H\'e5\loch\f32 meentie street, \hich\af32\dbch\af28\loch\f32 was one of the first people in the neighborhood to contact Mielonen to find out how he could join HVV.
netecon.berkeley.edu /Shaw01-Helsinki.rtf   (5383 words)

  
 Helsinki Energy - Annual Report 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An important step was taken in the introduction of versatile information network services under the Arabianranta project in September 2002, when the due contracts between Helsinki Energy, the regional operator of the Arabianranta area and the service enterprise were signed.
Helsinki Energy will lease the optical fibre connections in the Arabianranta area to Nordic Lan and Wan Communication Oy, who will implement the data, voice and TV services in the buildings of the area and deliver the equipment required by the services.
The Arabianranta information network will be completed in 2010, at which time the network services will be available to a total of 12,000 residents, 9,000 employees and 6,000 students.
www.helsinginenergia.fi /vuosi2002/en/tal_IT.html   (510 words)

  
 Integrated multi-disciplinary research creats pionership
The University's new operating environment, the rapidly developing Helsinki Virtual Village at Arabianranta, is an internationally unique laboratory for the experience society and for user-oriented applications of mobile lifestyle.
The Arabianranta village will offer the University an opportunity for fruitful research and development cooperation with national and international cutting-edge companies in the field of design and information technology, including Nokia, Sonera, IBM, Digia, TietoEnator, Alessi and the Hackman Group.
The chief actor in bringing together the expertise networks at Arabianranta is Designium, the Centre of Innovation in Design, which started its operations in autumn 2000.
www.trhubnet.com /design/news.nsf/(indexweb)/2A28BD0806B7C65CC1256AC6004B7014   (537 words)

  
 Arabian peruskoulu | Helsinki | Suomi - Finland |
The school is located just a few kilometers from the town center, in Arabianranta area.
Arabianranta is a part of the inner city of Helsinki.
The Arabia comprehensive school was taken in use in the beginning of the school term, autumn 2003.
www.arabpk.edu.hel.fi /english.html   (691 words)

  
 Annual Report of the City of Helsinki 1998
The core of the new Arabianranta district will be built around the University of Industrial Art and Design, institutes concentrating on pop and jazz and art and communications as well as the renowned Arabia ceramics factory.
The U-shaped residential blocks in Arabianranta open towards the sea to catch the morning sun.
The way in which the building are arranged in masses is intended to accomplish a variety of street and square layouts, thereby creating an urban milieu that is sophisticated in its manner of articulation.
www.hel2.fi /kkansl/julkaisut/vuosik98/english/face.html   (736 words)

  
 Sustainable Home Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Arabianranta (or Helsinki Virtual Village) is a pilot area because of its outstanding ICT infrastructure.
The areal network in Arabianranta is the fastest and most modern in Finland.
Arabianranta (Arabia strand) neighbourhood has some interesting best practice building features even as an old industrial area by the seaside some 4 km from the city centre of Helsinki.
www.sustainable-homeservices.com /best-practise/best-pract-finland.html   (532 words)

  
 Estonian Architectural Review
Arabianranta has special roots, however, in art and design as Arabia ltd ceramics company has operated in the area since the end of the 19th century.
Helsinki was desperate to find new ways of developing its economic base and Arabianranta was selected as one area where new opportunities were searched.
So far it is impossible to demonstrate any outcomes of the Arabianranta project as building activity is still ongoing and residents and companies are just moving in.
www.solness.ee /majaeng/index.php?gid=44&id=553   (1999 words)

  
 Wired 9.03: In Helsinki Virtual Village...
The site, known as Arabianranta (Arabia shore), is a flat, windswept, mostly barren expanse named for the pottery works that once stood there.
Even before Mielonen and his colleagues started hatching plans to turn the area into a wireless wonderland, it had been earmarked by the city of Helsinki for development as a tech hub.
Because she lives in Arabianranta and you've allowed her access to some parts of your HVV profile, she can see that you've gone to the movies tonight, sparing you a "Where are you?" scold on your voicemail.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/9.03/helsinki.html   (950 words)

  
 University of Helsinki - Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research
My doctoral research in progress is a case study on creating local digital service infrastructure for the district of Arabianranta on the eastern shore of Helsinki.
The working title of the thesis is 'Colliding Logics: Constructing the Arabianranta model for local broadband information infrastructure in cross-sectoral collaboration'.
I examine the Arabianranta process as multi-party negotiation and construction of new discursive and organizational structures which reflect the changing role of the public sector in providing utility services, of which ICT infra is becoming part of.
www.edu.helsinki.fi /activity/people/kangasoj   (354 words)

  
 ALLU - Latest news
The city of Helsinki is working on a project on an area called Arabianranta, where they are building a park just by the water.
The stabilisation and screening work in Arabianranta is done by Hyvinkään Tieluiska Oy.
First the stones and stumps are screened from the peat brought from Haaga with the ALLU screener crusher.
www.allu.net /en/news/db/20060928_1.php   (357 words)

  
 Helsinki Virtual Village   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The goal was to make Arabianranta the leading centre of art and design in the Baltic area.
By the beginning of the next decade Arabianranta will be a community of 10,000 residents, 8,000 jobs and 6,000 students.
ADCs goal is to make Arabianranta the leading centre of design and industry by the end of the decade.
www.helsinkivirtualvillage.fi /Resource.phx/adc/inenglish/index.htx   (338 words)

  
 Stories Lead to Media Studies - Festival News 8th March, 2002
Photography was one of Grav's previous subjects, but it was cinematographic art which combined her interests.
Sanna Grav's school is located in Arabianranta, Helsinki, and Arabianranta is the center for higher-level art teaching in Finland.
Grav is a second-year student in the Degree Programme in Media in the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia.
www.uta.fi /festnews/fn2002/eng/fri/ohjaajaopiskelijaen.html   (665 words)

  
 nordicum.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
“Arabianranta is also an important spearhead project for Helsinki.
The aim is to make this area the leading centre of art and design in the Baltic area.
In Arabianranta Art and Design City Helsinki Ltd (ADC Ltd) is responsible for.
www.nordicum.com /new_site/main_frame.php?req_page=results.php&ArtID=1162&Page=Article&searchType=   (521 words)

  
 Helsinki Warming
A resident contemplating moving into Arabianranta might be shown a computerized facsimile of an apartment model, with outer walls as the only permanent structures.
Each apartment building in Arabianranta has its own "e-moderator," a volunteer in charge of the building's Web site, which keeps residents informed of neighborhood activities, the arrival of new occupants, last-minute availability for a family at the communal sauna, and anything else that affects their building.
For most who live in Arabianranta the chief attraction is its location on a Baltic inlet.
www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2007/march/helsinki.php?page=4   (411 words)

  
 Artist Association MUU
The historical surroundings of Vanhankaupunki area in Helsinki, and the Arabia factory environment with its wasteland meet new city construction in Arabianranta.
The top layer of contaminated earth is scraped off, the colourful pipes and cables entwine on the bottoms of the pits, rock is being blown away.
I have been filming the transformation of Arabianranta scenery for three years.
www.muu.fi /exposedtransformation   (300 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
ADC is the development company for Arabianranta and is the main sponsor of the festival tram.
“Arabianranta provides education in the field of culture not only at University of Art and Design Helsinki, but also in Stadia polytechnic, Pop & Jazz Conservatory, the Swedish-speaking polytechnic Arcada, and Heltech.
Tram no. 6 also serves the Theatre Academy and many other cultural institutions." The Art Tram project was carried out by the Masters of Arts 2005 Festival team at the University.
www.uiah.fi /binary.asp?path=1;1457;2112;2155;2331;16821;17893;17894&field=FileAttachment&version=2   (596 words)

  
 Rautaruukki Promotion of Steel Construction- The Audio-visual College, Helsinki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The jury admired the skilful use of material, accurate detailing and colours in the building.
In addition to traditional classrooms there are rooms for team work, computer rooms and studios and stage property rooms for a couple of hundred of students in the building.
Hackman's Arabia Works, University of Industrial Arts and Media Centre Lume are also located in the vicinity of the building in Arabianranta.
www.rautaruukki.fi /tenw1f.nsf/4473ec76c81eb6d94225693700235ee4/c26231b0dff2643fc2256c840045ee43?OpenDocument   (361 words)

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