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
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
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
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