The Sami Knife II at Design Forum FinlandGlobal design and local Finnish design and production meet at The Sami Knife II exhibition at Design Forum Finland.
22 designers have searched for a new form for the traditional Sami Knife.
In addition to top designers from the Nordic countries, the participants include designers among the most interesting ones in the world at the moment.
"Updating" the Sami Knife has been an ambitious task on which all the invited designers wanted to express their views.
The exhibition was on display at the Sami Museum Siida in Inari during the summer 2009 and it will tour later abroad.
The Sami Knife is a basic tool which has a development of 300 years behind it.
The skill of crafting a traditional Sami knife is about to disappear.
The Sami Knife project wants to raise discussion on how various locally developed objects are disappearing because of global production and the resulting price competition.
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