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IHME Helsinki’s impact survey

13.04.2026
Image of an elderly lady with grey hair, pink pullover and black trousers sitting on a wooden bench in the rowing stadium and looking at the sea. In front of her are standing two big loudspeakers.
Norwegian artist Jana Winderen’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2020 Listening Through The Dead Zones at the rowing stadium in Helsinki in August 2021. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.
A crowd of people in a park filled with autumn leaves on the ground. In the middle are two adults and a child kneeling to smell an incense that the other one of the adults is holding.
Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2021 To Burn, Forest, Fire incense ceremony at the garden of Observatory on Sept 31, 2021. Kuva/ Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.
Image of Amar Kanwar's IHME Helsinki Commission 2022 screen shot of a log in page, tree in a field
Screenshot of Indian artist Amar Kanwar’s IHME Helsinki 2022 Commission, Learning from Doubt online course’s log in page.
A group of people standing and posing happily in a green and sunny forest.
Kurdish artist Hiwa K’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2023 Chicago Boys – While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming public rehearsal in the Matokallio forest in May 2023. Photo: Suvi-Tuuli Kankaanpää.
A group photo of fourteen people standing behind yellow stands holding different types of bread.
The finalists of the Maaleipä Challenge – Cooking Section’s IHME Helsinki Commission 2024 – from left to right: Jutta Varis, Anne Kiuru, Anu Horttanainen, Jella Bertell, Aila Kiiskinen, Merja Teräsvuori, Anna Luttinen, Rami Oksanen, Satu Engström. Jani Anders Purhonen, Seppo Lindén, Malin Furu and Suvi Tiihonen. Photo by Veikko Somerpuro.
Photo of a hall in an old Steam Power Plant. In the middle is an old turbine. Around the turbine is a black table covered with texts and images of maps. Behind the turbine, in the wall is a projection of a video that shows a boat in the middle of a young forest. There are people around the table exploring the materia.
IHME Helsinki Commission 2025 by Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova: The Forest. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.

Over the years, we have received a lot of useful feedback from our audiences about our commissions and events, but now we want to find out what significance our activities have had as a whole.

We invite all participants, visitors, and partners who have been involved in IHME Helsinki’s activities, as well as anyone who has followed our work, to take IHME Helsinki’s impact survey. We are using it to assess how successful we have been in achieving our goal of combining art, science, and climate action.

The survey is open 13.4–5.5.2025. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete. Every opinion is important to us. By responding to the survey, you are also adding to information about IHME.

Take the survey

 

The results of the impact survey may be used in a volume that we are currently working on. The book brings together all the IHME Helsinki Commissions from 2020–2025. It will be published by the renowned German art book publisher Hatje Cantz, which also produced our first book: IHME 2009–2018: Art in Public x 10. The graphic design is once again by design agency Dog Design and editing by IHME Helsinki’s Executive Director and Curator Paula Toppila.

 

Translated with DeepL.com (free version) Revised by MG