Anticipating Consumer Rights through a Preventative Approach

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 Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority’s (running under the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Trade) brief on ‘Boosting Consumer Rights for Finnish SMBs’. The group includes Natalia Villaman, Yu Chen and LiangYan Shen, … Read more

Every entrepreneur starts somewhere

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the two groups addressing the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority’s brief on ‘Boosting Consumer Rights’. The group includes Jiyoung Son from the MA Collaborative and Industrial Design program, Linh Duong from Corporate Communication program, David Martens from Master … Read more

Artificial Intelligence – enabling wellbeing and empowerment?

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 Finance’s brief on ‘Aurora AI: Empowering Citizens through Artificial Intelligence.’ The group includes Mia Aintila from the Language Specialist Program (English) at University of Turku, He Dian and Mirko Wittka … Read more

Setting the stage for AuroraAI

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 Finance’s brief on citizen empowerment through AI. The group includes Hoai Van Chu from Aalto’s IDBM program, Eva Duran Sanchez from Aalto’s Creative Sustainability program, Christopher Gros and Nehal Jain … Read more

Exploring AI challenges with stakeholders

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is jointly written by the two groups addressing the Ministry of Finance’s project brief. The groups include Mia Aintila from the Language Specialist Program (English) at University of Turku, Hoai Van Chu from Aalto’s International Design Business Management, He Dian, Eva Duran Sanchez and Mirko Wittka from Aalto’s Creative Sustainability program, … Read more

Exploring why Consumer Rights matter!

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by the students addressing with the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority’s brief on ‘Boosting Consumer Rights’: Aino Piirtola, Natalia Villaman, Karin Fröhlich, Shen LiangYan, Yu Chen, David Martens, Jiyoung Son, Linh Doung, Tiina Alanko and Xuyang Zhang. This makes 10 students working in two … Read more

“Nature doesn’t need us, we need nature!” – a DfG’18 report from the field

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the three groups working on the brief, ‘The Future of Finland’s Hiking Areas: New Uses, Users and Identity,’ by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in collaboration with Metsähallitus. The group includes multi-disciplinary students from Aalto University’s MA … Read more

DfG’18 starts strong with a stakeholder workshop!

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the Design for Government (DfG) course! The post is written by one of the three groups working on the brief, ‘The Future of Finland’s Hiking Areas: New Uses, Users and Identity,’ by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in collaboration with Metsähallitus. The group includes multi-disciplinary students from Aalto … Read more

DFG in the EU Design Days 2017

Design for Government (DFG) and CHEMARTS were the 2 projects nominated from Aalto University for presentations at the EU Design Days 2017! Seungho Lee, founder of Design for Government, and Emilija Veselova, one of the alumni of DFG’17, travelled to Brussels in September to represent Aalto University at EU Design Days. Below, Seungho and Emilija reflect upon … Read more

A carrot will never look the same again

This blog post reports the final stages of our 14 weeks journey in the Design for Government DfG 2017 course! It is written by one of the two groups working with the brief of ‘A Model for Regional Sustainable Circular Food ’ commissioned by The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and The Ministry of the … Read more