For the first time in DFG history, both projects involve multiple ministries! Students can still apply to DfG – Deadline 3 February! The projects this year demonstrate the ministries commitment to the kind of collaboration and crossover thinking necessary for addressing complex societal challenges. Both the setup of the projects and the project themes will have a special focus during this centenary year … Read more
This blog post reports on final presentation and outcomes of the DfG course. The post is written by members from two teams working with the Ministry of Environment’s brief on reducing electronic waste; Anna Pyyluoma from Aalto ARTS Collaborative and Industrial Design, Suvi Kinnarinen from Aalto ARTS Creative Sustainability, and Riikka Ylitalo from Aalto Biz, Marketing. Final … Read more
Are you interested in new and proactive ways of policy-making and public service-provision? What happens when multidisciplinary student teams take on policy design challenges? The 2016 Spring Final Show of the Design for Government (DfG) course will showcase some inspiring examples! Highly-committed and -talented student teams will present their research and proposals developed during the … Read more
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 Environment’s brief on ‘Energy and maintenance in Finnish housing companies’. The group includes Ekaterina Perfilyeva from Aalto’s MA in Creative Sustainability (Business) program, Jutta Menestrina from Aalto’s MA in Creative Sustainability (Design) … Read more
We’re thrilled to announce the 3 projects for 2016 Design for Government (DfG) course! These projects are the result of proposals made by Finnish ministries, refined by DfG teachers into “project”-sized briefs, which will be further focused, specified and addressed by the students. DfG runs for 14 weeks each spring – the first day of … Read more
Welcome Ramia Mazé to the Design for Government faculty! Ramia has started at Aalto in August 2015 as ‘Professor of New Frontiers in Design’, in which her focus is on the expanding roles of design in society – including roles in governance, social innovation and sustainable development. DfG was initiated and established in 2013 by Seungho … Read more
During 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 ministries, early in the morning of September 10th. The aim of the day was to create trust and find tools for the ministries’ civil servants and designers’ to start working … Read more
Journalist Hannu Pöppönen interviewed the founders of DfG in the latest issue of Ornamo, the magazine of the Finnish Association of Designers with the same name. The article’s topic was “The design process as an opportunity to expand”, and DfG was featured as one example. Among design work, design agencies offer more and more expert … Read more
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
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