Jaakko Blomberg

Finland Finland

Producer, Urban Activist, Co-Creator, Placemaker, Speaker

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Jaakko Blomberg is an urban activist, producer and artist from Helsinki, Finland. He specialises in co-creation, social movements, placemaking and urban art.

 Jaakko has been making many community-based events and projects, which use urban spaces in new ways and create social cohesion. He is also one of the founders of Jänö, a vegan grill kiosk run by a cooperative, and Konepaja movement, that develops a former industrial area in Helsinki. Jaakko works as the executive director of Helsinki Urban Art association, which introduces new ways of using urban space and solving social problems by means of art and activism.