Tag: design

  • Diving Into the World of Design Thinking

    “Now I want you all to introduce yourselves, but this time you will do it differently.” – this is how our Design Thinking course started and little did we know what will follow afterwards. To present ourselves we were divided into groups, where each of us had to first, speak about her/himself, second, count one…

  • A Design Thinking Crash Test

    Erika Bäck & Sabine Maselkowski Two days of Design Thinking ‘crash test’ (read: course) behind. All we think is we need to pass, like a car tested for the safety standards. Days went by at high-speed, challenging our ways of thinking and working, let’s start… Design? Design Thinking?  To get answers we looked both past…

  • Pushing the boundaries of innovation

    Pushing the boundaries of innovation

    I participated on 10.9.2020 in an online event hosted by Design Club, a business community within Design Museum Helsinki, and Aalto University. The topic of the event was “System Innovations for Business Sustainability” and featured a presentation by Dr. Idil Gaziulusoy, an Assistant Professor in Aalto University and a panel discussion with Dr. Heli Antila, the…

  • The art of design research

    The art of design research

    I participated on 20.8.2020 in an online event focusing on design research. The event was hosted by Reach Network‘s Bas Raijmakers and featured a panel discussion with two experienced service design professionals Geke van Dijk from STBY and Babitha George from Quicksand, both part of the Reach Network organization. Both Van Dijk and George discussed…

  • The growing role of design in government

    Last week the city of Rotterdam (NL) hosted the latest edition of the International Design in Government Conference.  Previously hosted in London (UK), Oakland (USA), and Edinburgh (Scotland), last week’s edition was already the third happening in 2019, suggesting that the interest in the topic is growing world-wide.   Hosted officially by Gebruiker Centraal (User Needs…

  • Habitare must listen to its users

    Habitare 2019 is an interesting convention, but overall it could be so much more. A convention is a service and I approached this furniture, interiors, and product design event with a service design perspective. I was actively looking out for mentions of service design and observing what the experience of being a participant at the…

  • The power of design thinking

    And why you should consider using it to innovate and solve business problems. Rashpal Bhati On the first weekend of September amidst the beginnings of Finnish Autumn, the SID class of 2019 gathered at Laurea’s Leppävaara campus for their first contact session in Design Thinking. As we listened to the energetic tutor Katja Tschimmel, we…

  • The key take-aways from POLISHOPA Design Thinking 2019 conference

    The key take-aways from POLISHOPA Design Thinking 2019 conference

    POLISHOPA is the biggest Design Thinking conference in Poland, two days of interesting lectures and two days of workshops, 16 experts from different fields and 4 speakers from abroad. It was the sixth edition. You can find more details on this page: https://polishopa.pl/ I recommend signing up for the newsletter to get information about the…

  • Health Design 2018

    Event: Health Design 2018, Experience Better Healthcare Time: 29.11.2018, 9.30 – 18.00 Place: Aalto Learning Centre I need to start this post with a disclaimer: I happened to got a free ticket for this event, which I’m very happy of, since I don’t feel that the event was worth of the actual price of 150€. For…

  • (For, With, By) People

    (For, With, By) People

    How to design work Last week I had a change to participate to a full day and very interesting seminar co-hosted by Pisku-project and NewWOWCrafting -project. The event was held at the Aalto University Design Factory that was described as a sandbox that is open for testing and learning goals. Facilitators, quite skilled ones if…