What Kind of Projects and Events Are Featured on Esa Ruskeepää's Website?

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Esa Ruskeepää's website (era.fi) is a running record of his professional activity as a Helsinki-based architect who teaches building design at Aalto University, with a focus on public architecture. The updates fall into four recurring categories: conference talks, research papers, architectural competitions, and commissioned planning studies. If you want to follow his current work rather than a static portfolio, the site reads as a dated news feed of these items.

Conference talks

The site announces speaking engagements with dates, titles, and links to the host event.

  • "Your Time Is Being Stolen" — a talk at BTCHEL, the Nordic Bitcoin conference, in Helsinki, Finland, on September 25–26, 2026.
  • "How Fiat Ruins Architecture (and Everything Else)" — a keynote at BTCHEL, described as the first large-scale Bitcoin conference in the Nordics, in Helsinki, Finland, on August 15–16, 2025.

Both entries link out to btchel.com, so the site functions as an announcement channel that points readers to the event itself for attendance details.

Research papers

The site lists academic presentations and offers the paper for download.

  • "Money's Worth" — presented at the 6th Alvar Aalto Researchers' Network Seminar in Jyväskylä, Finland, on May 6–7, 2026. The paper examines Alvar Aalto's Rautatalo office building in Helsinki (1955) and explores how inflation has affected construction quality. A download link points to alvaraalto.fi.

This is the clearest example of how the site connects an event listing to a downloadable document, so a reader can move from the announcement to the source material.

Architectural competitions

The site reports on competitions he is involved in, including his role.

  • Supercell headquarters — the Finnish game development company Supercell is launching a two-stage invited architectural competition for its new headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. Esa Ruskeepää is advising Supercell on the competition and will serve as secretary of the jury.

Note that the entry describes his advisory and jury role, not a design entry of his own.

Commissions and planning studies

The site also records planning work commissioned from him.

  • Porvoo zoning study — he has been commissioned to prepare a study for a zoning plan in Porvoo, Finland, that would enable construction of a major new regional health centre. The work is carried out in collaboration with the City of Porvoo, local healthcare authorities, and Helsinki University Hospital.

Other project posts

  • Museum of architecture and design, Helsinki — a proposal for a new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki, Finland, with competition boards available for download (posted 11 September 2025).

What this tells you about the site

Category What appears What you can do with it
Talks Event name, title, date, city, external link Find the conference and attend
Papers Seminar, paper title, subject, download link Read the research directly
Competitions Project, client, his role Understand his involvement
Commissions Location, scope, collaborators Track planning work in progress

The pattern is consistent: each post is dated, names the specific project or event, and where possible links to an external source or downloadable file. If you are looking for a conventional project gallery with images and specifications, this is not that — it is closer to a professional log. If you want to know what Esa Ruskeepää is currently working on, speaking about, or publishing, the site is organized to answer exactly that.