Seela Pentikäinen

I am a Helsinki-based architect. As part of You Tell Me Collective I’m currently working on an alternative urban plan for Stansvik with the aim of saving the old-growth forest. Later in the spring, I will be teaching at the Estonian Academy of Arts and The Museum of Finnish Architecture on how to make more-than-human stakeholders visible in urban planning.

Open for comissions and collaborations <3

seela.pentik@gmail.com

Architect SAFA

Arkkitehtitoimisto Skammi | You Tell Me Collective

Education

Aalto University, Master Studies, Architecture, Helsinki, 2020–2023

École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, Master Studies, Architecture, Paris, 2022

Aalto University, Bachelor of Science in Technology (architecture), Helsinki, 2016–2019

Exhibitions

Master’s thesis exhibition, Aalto university, 2023

The Assembly of the River Sheaf exhibition, Block project space, Sheffield, UK, August 2023

Buildings We Live In anti-advertisement campaign, Helsinki metro, You Tell Me Collective, 2020

Event organizer, You Tell Me -Symposium, student-led seminar about climate crisis and architecture, Helsinki, 2019

Workshops and events

Assembly of the River sheaf, Workshop at European Architecture student assembly, Sheffield, UK 31.7.–13.8.2023

Fill This Space summer school, Museum of Finnish Architecture, 2024

Architecture

Villa koivikko, A summer house designed from recycled log frame and materials in Lapinlahti, 2024–

Extension to a 50s typehouse house, Helsinki, 2023

Antti’s oathouse, Shingle-roofed auxiliary building to a 19th-century farmstead in North Karelia, 2022

Terrace and summer kitchen for a villa, with Siiri Hänninen, Kangasala, 2020

Collaboration

Intento – a multi-usable exhibition structure, Somos S.U.R. x You Tell Me Collective, with Siiri Hänninen Otso Jämsä and Maija Kovalainen, 2023

La métropolie de petits projects, participatory design studio course x OMJA at ENSA-PB, 2022

Publications

Urban Forest – an Object of Conflict or Care?, ARK-magazine, Forest, 4/2023

The Entangled City – From Urban Nature Conflicts Towards Care in More-than-human Worlds, Master Thesis with distinction, Aalto University, 2023

Recognising the interconnectedness of the world would lead to a polyphonic approach to urban planning, with Siiri Hänninen, Mustarinda magazine, 2023

Helsinki of Dreams -map and illustration, with Siiri Hänninen, Huuto kaupukiluonnon puolesta, 2022

”What does the world need most from the forest?” An event review of Hope for Wood -series curated by the architecture museum, ministry of the environment and You Tell Me collective, AU-magazine, 2021

Martikkalan vierasmaja – Suunnittelua pohjustava analyysi. Bachelor´s thesis, 2019, with distinction

Grants, awards, residency

Master’s thesis award, Pro Helsinki foundation, 2023

Master’s thesis award, The city of Helsinki, 2023

The Department of Architecture, 2023

The Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2023

Mustarinda Residency, 2023

Finnish Changemaker of the year (You Tell Me), Ashoka foundation 2022

Honorary mention for the most beautiful book of the year, Huuto kaupunkiluonnon puolesta, 2022

Victor Hoving Foundation, 2020

SAFA foundation, 2020

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