DfG The first day of Design for Government was opened by Marco Steinberg’s talk: Redesigned State. Marco runs the strategic design practice, Snowcone & Haystack, based out of Helsinki. Prior to Snowcone & Haystack, Marco was Strategic Design Director at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund (2008-2013).
During the first week, we have got a tremendous input from our teachers – Seungho, Hella, and Juha – as well as guest speakers including Marco Steinberg, Tiina-Kaisa Laakso-Liukkonen, Jaana Hyvärinen.
*DfG course students, you are automatically in, so please do not RSVP. DfG has prepared two lectures for the public. Unfortunately we have very limited seats, so please RSVP by using the following links. Part I – Strategic Design, Mar 24, 2014 10:30 Marco Steinberg Marco Steinberg runs the strategic design practice, Snowcone & Haystack, … Read more
Three Sub-themes under each umbrella theme DfG 2014 has two umbrella themes – Accessibility of Buildings and Reducing the Use of Plastic Bags – each of which has three sub-themes. Each team will take one sub-theme, which means the three teams will form a bigger team under one umbrella theme. Biweekly the teams will share … Read more
Are you interested in designing with the public sector? We think Helsinki Design Lab of Finland, MindLab of Denmark, and Public Policy Lab of New York are just the beginning, Helsinki soon hiring three city designers is just the beginning, and the emerging domain of design requires a new sets of tools, skills, most importantly, … Read more