In May 2019 artist Jeanne van Heeswijk will arrive to Helsinki where she continues to work with a long-term public art project called Not Yet initiated by PUBLICS. Best known for her large scale projects enabling different communities to take control of their own futures, Van Heeswijk was chosen to work for two months in a new Lauttasaari Manor Residence supported by the Kone Foundation.

In June the first public part of the project, Public Faculty, will be realised in Vallila district in collaboration with m-cult. A Public Faculty encourages to rethink, redefine and re-enter public space through a collective cultural action: for 4 days it will be a possibility to engage in collective learning through a process of knowledge exchange within the context of a certain place – in this case the Vallila neighbourhood, which is also the home for PUBLICS library, reading room and event space. The second edition of Public Faculty will follow in Maunula where m-cult has been supporting artists to create new work in dialogue with communities.

Launched in the beginning of 2018, Jeanne van Heeswijk was the first artist to join PUBLICS Talk series where practitioners are invited to discuss about the relationship between contemporary art and publicness. In 2020–2022 Not Yet will result in a large scale public art commission with public engagement; an event gathering together the results and findings of the project, bringing together representation of all the community participant groups, and a publication cataloguing the process.