Design for Government (DFG) and CHEMARTS were the 2 projects nominated from Aalto University for presentations at the EU Design Days 2017! Seungho Lee, founder of Design for Government, and Emilija Veselova, one of the alumni of DFG’17, travelled to Brussels in September to represent Aalto University at EU Design Days. Below, Seungho and Emilija reflect upon … Read more
Enter and Encounter Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki 24 Mar – 22 Oct 2017 Design for Government is featured in an exhibition at the Design Museum in Helsinki! Enter and Encounter is a joint exhibition produced by Design Museum Finland and the Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo featuring contemporary design since Helsinki’s Design Capital Year of … Read more
The above mini-documentary about Design for Government (DFG) was produced in spring 2017. It outlines our approaches and projects commissioned to date from Finnish ministries, overviews motivations for and benefits of DfG from governmental, societal and design points of view. The 10-minute mini-documentary was produced for the ‘Enter and Encounter’ exhibition at Design Museum Helsinki where it … Read more
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
For the first time in DFG history, both projects involve multiple ministries! Students can still apply to DfG – Deadline 3 February! The projects this year demonstrate the ministries commitment to the kind of collaboration and crossover thinking necessary for addressing complex societal challenges. Both the setup of the projects and the project themes will have a special focus during this centenary year … Read more
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
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
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 ‘Energy and maintenance in Finnish housing companies’. The group includes Ekaterina Perfilyeva from Aalto’s MA in Creative Sustainability (Business) program, Jutta Menestrina from Aalto’s MA in Creative Sustainability (Design) … Read more
We’re thrilled to announce the 3 projects for 2016 Design for Government (DfG) course! These projects are the result of proposals made by Finnish ministries, refined by DfG teachers into “project”-sized briefs, which will be further focused, specified and addressed by the students. DfG runs for 14 weeks each spring – the first day of … Read more
Design for Government (DfG) celebrates the New Year recognising great achievements over 2015 – ‘Design for Government: Human-centric Governance Through Experiments’, which we produced with Demos Helsinki for the Finnish Prime Minister’s office. From Aalto, the 2015 DfG course served as an example of what a part of the proposed process might unfold, the course … Read more