Invitation: DfG 2015 mid-term review

You are cordially invited to the mid-term review of Design for Government 2015 at Tieteiden talo, the House of Science and Letters, on 21.4.2015 from 9 to 12. We’ll be looking forward to your feedback and comments to the hard-working teams. The Prime Minister’s Office (VNK) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MMM) assigned … Read more

DfG 2015 Empathy Block

Editor’s note: We offered this blog as a platform to the DfG course participants who are documenting the DfG course for readers to get a glimpse of how things went. This is one such post by Primary Producer’s Notification team 1. The previous post on the DfG blog took a look at the beginning of … Read more

[video] DfG Panel Discussion 3.3.2015

Thousand thank for those who made it to our grand opening event of the Design for Government (DfG) 2015. For those who couldn’t make it, we’ve put the whole event online for you. The programme of the day looked like the following, and the videos below are in chronological order. 09 00 Coffee and networking … Read more

DfG 2015 Orientation block

Editor’s note: We offered this blog as a platform to the DfG course participants who are documenting the DfG course for readers to get a glimpse of how things went. This is one such post by Project Piazza Team 1. The journey has begun! We are twenty four ambitious students with various backgrounds selected to … Read more

Panel Discussion on 3 March 2015

Are you interested in designing with the public sector and government? Helsinki Design Lab and Design Driven City programme of Finland, Policy Lab under the UK Cabinet, MindLab of Denmark, Public Policy Lab of New York are just the beginning. Now the emergent domain of design requires a new set of skills and the right mindset … Read more

Announcement for DfG 2015 is made

The student selection for Design for Government (DfG) 2015 is now completed, and the announcement is made to the applicants via email. If you have not received any announcement though you’ve applied to DfG 2015, please contact the responsible teacher, Seungho Lee (seungho.lee[a]aalto.fi). With best wishes, The DfG team

DfG 2015 project commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Office

Yo! As promised, here we unveil one of the project themes of DfG 2015. Possibly, two teams will work on this them. Note that the other two projects, which we cannot disclose just yet, are radically different from this one. Where are we now? Finnish government is in need of a platform where information about … Read more

What’s sizzling?

Time flies! It’s already only three days before the application deadline, and we’ve been spending much time preparing for Design for Government(DfG) 2015. So, what’s sizzling for DfG 2015? First, we are beginning DfG 2015 with six concurrent workshops inviting a large number of stakeholders. We’ve figured that the teams in the previous year spent … Read more