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DfG Helsinki Design Week Online Event: “Design for government: Two cases of designing sustainability policy in Finland”

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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 by Savannah Vize, Hannah Roche, Amir Tahvonen, Shuaijun Zhang from Design for Government course at Aalto University. About the cases: Just Transition to Post-Oil Heating in Homes (2020) by the Ministry of … Read more

2021 Final Show

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The 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 hosted online, saw 9 talented and multidisciplinary student teams present their research and proposals responding to challenges posed from within the Finnish public sector. This year, students addressed a record … Read more

2020 Final Show

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The 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 talented student teams addressing challenging projects commissioned from within the Finnish government. This year, students have addressed two project briefs: First up at the Final Show were the teams dedicated to “Boosting … Read more

DfG 2020 stakeholder workshop on ‘Just transition to post-oil heating in homes’

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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 project brief on ‘Just transition to post-oil heating in homes’. The group includes Elizabeth Atkins from the Collaborative and Industrial Design (CoID) program, Elisa Dametto from the Creative Sustainability (CS) program, Jane Lehtinen … Read more

DfG 2020 stakeholder workshop on ‘Boosting climate education’

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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 brief ‘Boosting climate education’ provided by the Ministry of Environment (YM) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Finnish National Agency for Education (OPH) and the ORSI … Read more

2019 Final Show

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The 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 talented student teams addressing challenging projects commissioned from within the Finnish government. This year, students have addressed two project briefs: First up at the Final Show were the teams dedicated to “Boosting … Read more

Design & Government at Helsinki Design Week

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This 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 Leppänen (Lead Experimentalist, D9 team, State Treasury, Minh-Nguyet Le (doctoral candidate, University of Potsdam, DE), Ramia Mazé (Professor, Aalto University), Mariana Salgado (Director, Inland Design, Migri), Helén Marton and Laura Lerkkanen (MA students, Aalto University).  … Read more

2018 Final Show

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The 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 present their research and proposals addressing a challenging project brief from within the Finnish government – this year, students have addressed a policy challenge from the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture and … Read more

DfG’18 starts strong with a stakeholder workshop!

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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 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 … Read more

DFG in the EU Design Days 2017

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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