Ida Kukkapuro is the director of Studio Kukkapuro and the host of Rakkaani, kaupunki TV series.
Ida has written 📕 Sisaruuksia (S&S 2025), a memoir about siblings and blended families in the context of nuclear family norms.
Previously Ida worked at the Amos Rex art museum🚀, as the editor-in-chief at Helsinki Design Weekly and hosted a weekly design program 💬 at Radio Helsinki.
In printed form Ida’s articles have been published in Alvar Magazine, Apartamento, Avotakka, Form, The Guardian, Grafia Magazine, Slanted, Helsinki Beyond Dreams (2012), Out of the Blue 🔵(Gestalten, 2014), Wilder Quarterly etc.
Ida has been researcher in the Design 3000 and Stugor🏡 tv-series produced for YLE.
Videos
- Rakkaani, kaupunki, YLE
- Basta med Kasper Strömman, YLE
- Dålig design, YLE, stoff.fi
- Design 3000, YLE, SVT & NRK
- Stugor, Yle Fem
- Foundation Man Official Trailer, Finnish Cultural Foundation’s vlog
- Kissa pöydälle, Finnish Cultural Foundation’s vlog
Articles in English
- Yrjö Kukkapuro, designer, Rethink-issue, Finimalism journal
- Move over Barcelona: four great alternative city breaks, The Guardian
- Design that melts, 🌧Helsinki Design Weekly
Audio in Finnish
- Ytimessä, Radio Helsinki
- Uusi kaava, Ympäristöministeriön podcast
- Helsinki Design Weekly, Radio Helsinki