- Planning for action: Elderly inclusion in open governmentThis blog reports our research progress and learning highlights on designing for the government, focusing on the Action Plan and elderly inclusion workstream under the Open Government initiative by the Ministry of Finance.
- 2024 Final ShowThe Design for Government 2024 Final Show showcases inspiring examples of proactive and ‘designerly’ approaches to policy-making and public service provision. The event saw 6 … Read more
- 2023 Final ShowThe Design for Government 2023 Final Show showcases inspiring examples of proactive and ‘designerly’ approaches to policy-making and public service provision. The event saw 6 … Read more
- 2022 Final ShowThe Design for Government 2022 Final Show showcases inspiring examples of proactive and ‘designerly’ approaches to policy-making and public service provision. The event saw 6 … Read more
- DfG Helsinki Design Week Online Event: “Design for government: Two cases of designing sustainability policy in Finland”Recording of the Helsinki Design Week Online event: 21.09.2021 (14:00 – 16:00h): “Design for government: Two cases of designing sustainabilitypolicy in Finland” Image: Original illustration … Read more
- 2021 Final ShowThe Design for Government 2021 Final Show showcases inspiring examples of proactive and ‘designerly’ approaches to policy-making and public service provision. The event, which was … Read more
- 2020 Final ShowThe 2020 Final Show of Design for Government (DfG) showcases new ways that multidisciplinary design can address policy-making and public-service provision! DfG’20 included 6 highly-committed and … Read more
- DfG 2020 stakeholder workshop on ‘Just transition to post-oil heating in homes’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 Ministry of Environment’s … Read more
- DfG 2020 stakeholder workshop on ‘Boosting climate education’This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the Design for Government (DfG) course! The post is written in collaboration with the three groups dealing with the project … Read more
- 2019 Final ShowThe 2019 Final Show of Design for Government (DfG) showcases new ways that multidisciplinary design can address policy-making and public-service provision! DfG’19 included 4 highly-committed and … Read more
- Design & Government at Helsinki Design WeekThis is a long version of a post invited by the Design Forum Finland blog, it also appears at Migri’s Inland Design blog. It’s co-authored by Anni … Read more
- 2018 Final ShowThe 2018 Final Show of Design for Government showcases new ways that multidisciplinary design can address policy-making and public-service provision! 3 highly-committed and talented student teams … Read more
- DfG’18 starts strong with a stakeholder workshop!This blog post reports on work-in-progress within the Design for Government (DfG) course! The post is written by one of the three groups working on the … Read more
- DFG in the EU Design Days 2017Design 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 … Read more
- 2017 Final ShowThe 2017 Final Show of the Design for Government (DfG) course showcased new ways that multidisciplinary design can address policy-making and public-service provision! For an … Read more
- Design for Government at the Design MuseumEnter and Encounter Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki 24 Mar – 22 Oct 2017 Design for Government is featured in an exhibition at the Design Museum … Read more
- 2016 Final ShowThe 2016 Final Show of the Design for Government (DfG) course showcased new ways that multidisciplinary design can address policy-making and public-service provision! 6 highly-committed and … Read more
- View the mid-review presentation slidesPhoto: Seungho Lee The 2016 Design for Government (DfG) course is halfway through and promising directions were presented in the mid-review event on 5 Apr at Tieteiden … Read more
- DfG in Helsinki Design Week – Part 2During the Helsinki Design Week 2015, we have organised a workshop inviting 11 designers and 10 civil servants to Valtimo, a joint working space of the … Read more
- DfG in Helsinki Design Week – Part 1Design for Government contributed to an event, Design Driven Society, hosted by Design Driven City and Design Europe during the Helsinki Design Week at L3 … Read more
- 2015 Final ShowThank you so much for coming to DfG 2015 Final Show! It was a great success thanks to the hard-working students as well as the … Read more
- Mid-term review presentation slidesThe 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 … Read more
- DfG Panel Discussion 3.3.2015Thousand thank for those who made it to our grand opening event of the Design for Government (DfG) 2015. For those who couldn’t make it, … Read more
- Panel Discussion on 3 March 2015Are you interested in designing with the public sector and government? Helsinki Design Lab and Design Driven City programme of Finland, Policy Lab under the … Read more
- 2014 Final ShowDesign for government (DfG) Final Show took place at Master of Aalto (MOA) exhibition space near Esplanadi park, Helsinki, with a number of experts as guest critic including academics, design professionals, and representatives from the industry.
- DfG Introduction Week – March 24-28, 2014During 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.