DfG 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
The mid-term review of Design for Government 2015 took place at Tieteiden talo, the House of Science and Letters, on 21.4.2015 from 9 to 12. In the beginning of 2015, the Prime Minister’s Office (VNK) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MMM) assigned three project to Design for Government, and the six teams of highly … Read more
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
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 School Fruits and Vegetables team 1. What are we up to? We are working with the Ministry of Agriculture … Read more