(Finnish for ‘Freedom Temple’) was produced in the context of the Vaasa 20X0 project organized by artist initiative Platform in Vaasa. The question was how to set up an artistic campaign that would engage local residents in a debate on the future of the city. As a start to the project I looked at 2018, the year of the 100th anniversary of the end of the civil war. The idea was to design a new freedom memorial in Vaasa by appropriating an unrealized proposal from 1918. We organized a public consultation session (2014) and asked people to respond to a new rendering of the Freedom Temple, which was based on a recently discovered drawing in the archives of the local history museum. One of the many proposals was selected and visualized on the market square in 2015.

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