Kääntöpöytä (Turntable) – Dodo, Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland · Operator: Dodo ry（フィンランドの環境市民団体、1995年設立）／ボランティア
Overview
Dodo's urban-farming centre on a former railway turntable in Helsinki's Pasila yard — an open hub with a greenhouse, café and gardens that has helped lead Finland's citizen-driven urban gardening movement.
Citizen participation
The environmental citizens' group Dodo grew from cultivating a strip of land between railway tracks into guerrilla gardening and urban beekeeping. The Turntable is run mainly by volunteers, who host communal gardening days, workshops, organic brunches and courses where residents learn urban farming and are inspired to take it to their own neighbourhoods.
Operating model
A public space run by a non-profit citizens' association mainly through volunteers, supported by a café, greenhouse, events, membership, donations and grants — focused less on yields than on education, outreach and building an urban-farming community.
Impact
Turned a disused railway site into a citizen lab and learning space for urban farming, becoming a symbol of Helsinki's urban gardening movement and modelling volunteer- and resident-led food and greening in a Nordic city.
Land tenure
Operates on a former railway yard under a use permit, as a provisional ('meanwhile') reuse of the site.
Crops
- 野菜
- ハーブ
- ハチミツ
Scale
ヘルシンキ・パシラの旧鉄道操車場の転車台（ターンテーブル）跡を2012年に都市農業の実験場として再生。温室・カフェ・菜園を備えた誰でも入れる公共空間
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