Artificial Intelligence – enabling wellbeing and empowerment?

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 Finance’s brief on ‘Aurora AI: Empowering Citizens through Artificial Intelligence.’ The group includes Mia Aintila from the Language Specialist Program (English) at University of Turku, He Dian and Mirko Wittka … Read more

Setting the stage for AuroraAI

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 Finance’s brief on citizen empowerment through AI. The group includes Hoai Van Chu from Aalto’s IDBM program, Eva Duran Sanchez from Aalto’s Creative Sustainability program, Christopher Gros and Nehal Jain … Read more

Exploring AI challenges with stakeholders

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is jointly written by the two groups addressing the Ministry of Finance’s project brief. The groups include Mia Aintila from the Language Specialist Program (English) at University of Turku, Hoai Van Chu from Aalto’s International Design Business Management, He Dian, Eva Duran Sanchez and Mirko Wittka from Aalto’s Creative Sustainability program, … Read more

Exploring why Consumer Rights matter!

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by the students addressing with the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority’s brief on ‘Boosting Consumer Rights’: Aino Piirtola, Natalia Villaman, Karin Fröhlich, Shen LiangYan, Yu Chen, David Martens, Jiyoung Son, Linh Doung, Tiina Alanko and Xuyang Zhang. This makes 10 students working in two … Read more

An eventful future for Finland’s Hiking Areas

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the three groups dealing with the brief ‘The Future of Finland’s Hiking Areas: New Uses, Users and Identity’, by the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture in collaboration with Metsähallitus. The group includes Aleksandra Anikina from the ‘Social and Public … Read more

“Nature doesn’t need us, we need nature!” – a DfG’18 report from the field

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the three groups working on the brief, ‘The Future of Finland’s Hiking Areas: New Uses, Users and Identity,’ by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in collaboration with Metsähallitus. The group includes multi-disciplinary students from Aalto University’s MA … Read more

A carrot will never look the same again

This blog post reports the final stages of our 14 weeks journey in the Design for Government DfG 2017 course! It is written by one of the two groups working with the brief of ‘A Model for Regional Sustainable Circular Food ’ commissioned by The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and The Ministry of the … Read more

Final stage – crazy ideas and practical proposals

The post is written by one of the two groups working with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and the Prime Minister’s Office on the brief on ‘Civil Servant 2.0: Future Work of Civil Servants’. The group includes Eeva Lehto and Yiding Zhang from the Collaborative … Read more

Turning Data into Insights

This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the DfG course! The post is written by one of the two groups working with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, and the Prime Minister’s Office on the brief on ‘Civil Servant 2.0: Future Work of Civil Servants’. The … Read more

Design Games and Food Cycles

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 project brief ‘A Model for Regional Sustainable Circular Food’ from the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Ministry of Environment with Sitra and Motiva . The group includes Aalto students Andrea Cecilia Cuesta Claros from the MSc … Read more