Ida Kukkapuro

Ida Kukkapuro works at the Amos Rex art museum🚀 (currently on study leave).

Ida has written 📕 Sisaruuksia (S&S 2025), a memoir about siblings and blended families in the context of nuclear family norms.

Sisaruuksia-kirjan kansi

When Ida set out to explore her own family history, she found herself unable to escape the elusive nature of sibling relationships. How many hours does it take for a sibling bond to form? Is the essence of siblinghood something shaped by parents?

Delving deeper into the subject, broader questions emerged. Are children conceived through donor gametes considered siblings? In what ways are friendship and siblinghood intertwined?

Sisaruuksia is a book that asks how we might learn to be brothers and sisters to one another.

Ida is part of the Studio Kukkapuro, an initiative dedicated to preserving the artistic legacy of Irmeli and Yrjö Kukkapuro🪑.

Previously Ida worked 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.

Other old but nice projects:

Trash Magazine ♻ (editor-in-chief)
a video blog for Finnish Cultural Foundation (producer, script writer)
award winning service design project Travellab for Finavia in collaboration with Mapdon and Hellon👋 (producer, creative)
world’s most beautiful sailing magazine Beaufort Magazine. 💄 (editor)
Uusi Kaupunki architecture collective👫(producer)
Trojan Horse Summer School 🐎 (founding member)
Open House Helsinki (producer)