DfG 
Welcome Ramia Mazé to the Design for Government faculty! Ramia has started at Aalto in August 2015 as ‘Professor of New Frontiers in Design’, in which her focus is on the expanding roles of design in society – including roles in governance, social innovation and sustainable development. DfG was initiated and established in 2013 by Seungho … Read more
Are you a civil servant interested in how design can be applied to innovate in policy design? Are you a student interested in designing with the public sector and government? Design For Government (DfG, MUO-E8012) is a 10-ECTS advanced studio course in Aalto University’s Creative Sustainability master’s programme. DfG develops design addressing the complex challenges of … Read more
During the Helsinki Design Week 2015, we have organised a workshop inviting 11 designers and 10 civil servants to Valtimo, a joint working space of the ministries, early in the morning of September 10th. The aim of the day was to create trust and find tools for the ministries’ civil servants and designers’ to start working … Read more
Journalist Hannu Pöppönen interviewed the founders of DfG in the latest issue of Ornamo, the magazine of the Finnish Association of Designers with the same name. The article’s topic was “The design process as an opportunity to expand”, and DfG was featured as one example. Among design work, design agencies offer more and more expert … Read more
Design for Government contributed to an event, Design Driven Society, hosted by Design Driven City and Design Europe during the Helsinki Design Week at L3 building in Jätkäsaari on September 9th. The day started with a keynote on agile and participatory city development from Anthony Engi Meacock, an urban and architectural designer and co-founder of … Read more
Editor’s note: The final Show took place on May 26, 2015 at Säätytalo. In this post, we are sharing the final concepts of Design for Government 2015 in video. You can also see the event with photos in this previous post. Introduction Sirpa Kekkonen, Head of the Government Strategy Secretariat of the Prime Minister’s Office … Read more
Thank you so much for coming to DfG 2015 Final Show! It was a great success thanks to the hard-working students as well as the enthusiastic audience including some 40 civil servants. Altogether some 180 guests joined us at Säätytalo, and the feedback and the discussion were extremely fruitful. We will share all the presentations … Read more
Editor’s note: We offered this blog as a platform to the DfG course participants who are documenting the DfG course for the readers to get a glimpse of how things went. This is one such post by Primary Producer’s Team 2, a.k.a. Team Tab. The previous posts gave an insight into what has happened during … Read more
Are you interested in new and proactive ways of policy making and public service provision? We present three such case-studies from the real challenges faced by the Finnish government. The Prime Minister’s Office (VNK) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MMM) assigned three project to Design for Government, and the five teams of highly committed … Read more
Editor’s note: We offered this blog as a platform to the DfG course participants who are documenting the DfG course for the readers to get a glimpse of how things went. This is one such post by Project Piazza team 2. The previous post dived deeper into systems thinking and the creation of systems models. Based … Read more