Final show – register now!

The Design for Government final show is now open for the public! The event is free, but due to limited seats at the venue, the event requires registration. We’ve previously been fully booked, so register here and now! Design for Government 2017 Final Show 09:00 – 12:00, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 Valkoinen Sali The 2017 Final Show … Read more

Final stage – crazy ideas and practical proposals

The post is written by one of the two groups working with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and the Prime Minister’s Office on the brief on ‘Civil Servant 2.0: Future Work of Civil Servants’. The group includes Eeva Lehto and Yiding Zhang from the Collaborative … Read more

Turning Data into Insights

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the two groups working with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and the Prime Minister’s Office on the brief on ‘Civil Servant 2.0: Future Work of Civil Servants’. The … Read more

Design Games and Food Cycles

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

Reflections on the 2016 Final Show

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

Deep in the Solution Phase

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

Midterm excitement – halfway through and more challenges to come!

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

Starting the search for solutions

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

View the mid-review presentation slides

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

Invitation! DfG 2016 Final Show

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