Are you interested in designing with the public sector and government? Helsinki Design Lab and Design Driven City programme of Finland, Policy Lab under the UK Cabinet, MindLab of Denmark, Public Policy Lab of New York are just the beginning. Now the emergent domain of design requires a new set of skills and the right mindset … Read more
The student selection for Design for Government (DfG) 2015 is now completed, and the announcement is made to the applicants via email. If you have not received any announcement though you’ve applied to DfG 2015, please contact the responsible teacher, Seungho Lee (seungho.lee[a]aalto.fi). With best wishes, The DfG team
Yo! Now we share the two projects commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. With these, we now have three project themes for DfG 2015 and six teams, and therefore two teams under one theme. We do not want competition between teams. Rather, the two teams working on the same theme will collaborate as … Read more
Yo! As promised, here we unveil one of the project themes of DfG 2015. Possibly, two teams will work on this them. Note that the other two projects, which we cannot disclose just yet, are radically different from this one. Where are we now? Finnish government is in need of a platform where information about … Read more
Time flies! It’s already only three days before the application deadline, and we’ve been spending much time preparing for Design for Government(DfG) 2015. So, what’s sizzling for DfG 2015? First, we are beginning DfG 2015 with six concurrent workshops inviting a large number of stakeholders. We’ve figured that the teams in the previous year spent … Read more
Registration closed: 31 Jan 2015 (23:55) EET. The announcement will be made on 9 Feb 2015 (9:00) EET We’ve received a good number of great applications during the past weeks. To ensure the best possible teams, however, we are still seeking for applicants from and outside Aalto University especially outside design disciplines. Therefore the application … Read more
This summer, Design for Government (DfG) has joined to participate in an application for the research call (Ohjauksen uudet työkalut ja kokeilukulttuurin tuki VNK/477/48/2014) from the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office (VNK) in collaboration with the Nordic think tank Demos Helsinki and its partner Avanto Helsinki. We are happy to announce that the partnership has been … Read more
Registration closed: 31 Jan 2015 (23:55) EET. The announcement will be made on 9 Feb 2015 (9:00) EET Thanks to the overwhelming interest, we’ve worked hard to come up with a better student selection process for DfG 2015 based on the feedback and lessons from the previous year. First, we threw out the first-come-first-served principle … Read more
Finally we are sharing the final concepts of Design for Government course in video!! The final Show took place on May 28, 2014. If you’re interested in the event itself, see the previous post 1. Shifting Gear (Accessibility Communication) The team: Nina Isabella Wester, Sasha Kazantsev, Lilli Maaria Mäkelä, Bárbara Paz Rebolledo Bustamante, and Eeva-Maria Piiparinen (first … Read more
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.