In English
Telliskivi is a new area for creative activity on the edge of Old Town that through constantly evolving concept creates an environment for enterprise, educational and cultural institutions, art and entertainment events. Telliskivi's guidepost is cooperation between its tenants and building a multifunctional creative center.
The Kalinin Factory was an electromechanical industrial complex that was famous throughout the Soviet Union. Rumour had it that it produced complicated inventions that even found their way onto the Sputnik, the Soviet Union’s famous space satellite. It is very probable that everything dealing with resistors, logic elements, and the first computer parts came from the Kalinin Factory. However, today the operating factory has become a traditional industrial wasteland in the centre of Tallinn.
The goal of the next few years is to develop the Telliskivi complex into a self-operating environment for creative industries that value enterprise in the creative sector. It will also be a place where cooperation between the Telliskivi tenants will be consciously promoted and a broad range of activities will be provided for the Telliskivi tenants and those from outside. Telliskivi is based on firm value judgments which, along with a more detailed concept, are the basis for changing Telliskivi from an industrial wasteland to an open site for activities. These activities must be accompanied by an increase in awareness, a development of the tenant’s services and clear benefits for the public sector.
For clarification, here are some of the cornerstones of the Telliskivi concept:
- Placing value on the spirit of place, i.e. the past and the atmosphere of the place will not be destroyed in order to replace them with a gypsum-board image of dubious worth.
- Self-sufficient Telliskivi, i.e. rental revenues will be invested in the Telliskivi’s development and the place will be characterized by the principle of sustainable reuse.
- A development engine ( i.e. a specific unit or council that deals with the day-to-day problems at Telliskivi) is responsible for the functioning of the development mechanism, deals with the implementation of various ideas, and functions as a bridge between all the parties.
- Ten rules that Telliskivi will not deviate from on its developmental path, and which, for instance, will determine the fields of activity, principles for the rental terms, proscribed activities and undesired developments.
- Constant communication between the public sector and similar creative environments throughout Europe.
For more information contact info@telliskivi.eu