KÄRÄJÄKIVET is an independent and democratic publisher of thought and criticism of architecture, art and culture.

KÄRÄJÄKIVET is finnish word meaning “court stones” or “circle of stones”: places of judgment (originally iron age graves), where judgments were held and justice carried out, accordingly to the Finnish National Board of Antiquities. In the ancient times, they were important places where the primitive leaders of the North got together in order to discuss and decide about common matters.