DfG 
This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the two groups dealing with the project brief ‘A Model for Regional Sustainable Circular Food’ from the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Ministry of Environment with Sitra and Motiva . The group includes Aalto students Andrea Cecilia Cuesta Claros from the MSc … Read more
This blog post reports on final presentation and outcomes of the DfG course. The post is written by members from two teams working with the Ministry of Environment’s brief on reducing electronic waste; Anna Pyyluoma from Aalto ARTS Collaborative and Industrial Design, Suvi Kinnarinen from Aalto ARTS Creative Sustainability, and Riikka Ylitalo from Aalto Biz, Marketing. Final … Read more
This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the two groups dealing with the Ministry of Transport and Communication’s brief on ‘Bottom-up mobility-as-a-service’. The group includes Jaakko Ikonen from the University of Helsinki’s M.Soc.Sci in Social and Public Policy program, María Ferreira Litowtschenko from Aalto University’s … Read more
This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the two groups dealing with the Ministry of Environment’s project brief on ‘Energy and maintenance in Finnish housing companies’. The group includes Andre Vicentini from Aalto ARTS, MA in New Media Design and Production, Anssi Laurila from Aalto BIZ, … Read more
This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the two groups dealing with the Ministry of Environment’s brief on ‘Waste Prevention by extending (electronic product) lifecycle’. The group includes Merja Lang from Turku University’s MA in Future Studies program and Noomi Schulman from Aalto’s MA Creative … Read more
Photo: Seungho Lee The 2016 Design for Government (DfG) course is halfway through and promising directions were presented in the mid-review event on 5 Apr at Tieteiden talo. In this 3rd year of DfG, multidisciplinary student teams have addressed project briefs from the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Transport and Communications. 2016 project briefs outline … Read more
Are you interested in new and proactive ways of policy-making and public service-provision? What happens when multidisciplinary student teams take on policy design challenges? The 2016 Spring Final Show of the Design for Government (DfG) course will showcase some inspiring examples! Highly-committed and -talented student teams will present their research and proposals developed during the … Read more
Starting to dance with systems During the past two sessions of the DfG course we deepened our understanding of Empathic Design methodologies with practical exercises led by design researcher Juha Kronqvist. Jane Fulton Suri from IDEO defines design empathy as “The ability to step into someone else’s shoes and to understand them through their experiences” (in Koskinen, … Read more
This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the two groups dealing with the Ministry of Environment’s brief on ‘Energy and maintenance in Finnish housing companies’. The group includes Ekaterina Perfilyeva from Aalto’s MA in Creative Sustainability (Business) program, Jutta Menestrina from Aalto’s MA in Creative Sustainability (Design) … Read more
Design for Government (DfG) celebrates the New Year recognising great achievements over 2015 – ‘Design for Government: Human-centric Governance Through Experiments’, which we produced with Demos Helsinki for the Finnish Prime Minister’s office. From Aalto, the 2015 DfG course served as an example of what a part of the proposed process might unfold, the course … Read more