Last week I have been to KAMU (city museum) twice. I was looking for someone who could tell me more about the exhibition that was called „Tapiola - In Seach of a Better Life”...It was not easy...but finally I got a business card of a „senior guide” who did not answer her phone but answered her email, sending me this link that is basically the documentation of the exhibition: http://www.espoonkaupunginmuseo.fi/tapiola50/frontpage_en.asp?n=true

The exhibition was the result of a close collaboration with Tapiola residents collecting a lot of tales and personal stories, photographs and even old family movies.

I think it would be interesting to continue this project in a way. I'd find it an interesting experiment to interview people of my age (born somewhere in the '80s) who grew up in Tapiola. Talking about Tapiola's utopia and imagination of future from the past through childhood stories. I think it would be interesting to exchange photographs from our childhood, talking about them and record the stories in a way. Talking with young people about past may result in novelty (as compared to the exhibition).

The result of the interviews could appear in different forms. One of them would be something like this (but nicer :)):

I imagined a view on the side of the Central Basin (Tapiola city center). The childhood stories could be on some kinds of speech tables. Standing on the lakeside and reading the stories one could look down through the water and could see some of the exchanged old photographs under the water.

Another form of appearance could be something like a newspaper called “News from the past”.

But for all this what I really need is contacts to some people who grew up in Tapiola. If you know anyone or anyone who possibly knows some people, please let me know! (unfortunately the lady from the City Museum could not provide any information on peoples contacts) Thanks!

(my email is: iralksadur@gmail.com)