Susanna Pettersson: Potential of Heritage Sites

In this episode Hanna Harris discusses with Susanna Pettersson, CEO of The Finnish Cultural Foundation about the possibility of radical marriage of capital and preservation? What is the role of the agents who make culture in bringing cultural values forward? And why Paimio Sanatorium can be a platform or mothership for creativity and inspiration?  Join Susanna Pettersson and Hanna Harris in Spirit of Paimio. Susanna Pettersson, CEO of The Finnish Cultural Foundation, was interviewed by Hanna Harris, Chief Design Officer at the City of Helsinki. Paimio Sanatorium is a modernist masterpiece from 1930’s by Alvar and Aino Aalto. Spirit of Paimio is a series of intergenerational and interdisciplinary dialogues and interactions of reflection on architecture’s role in “taking care” bringing Aalto’s design ethos in our time.

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Alvar and Aino Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium is a radical synthesis of architecture, nature and research and it is as relevant today as it was when it was born. Our podcast origins from the Spirit of Paimio manifesto and conference. It brings together thinkers and doers, makers, and visionaries from the field of architecture, art, design and media to collaboratively build unexpected ways to view new perspectives through radical, practice-based solutions. Conversations builds future optimism. Our host Hanna Harris is Chief Design Officer at the City of Helsinki.