Tag: Futures thinking
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A cocktail of childish playing and academic research
Collaboration and direct engagement were the key words when two distinguished service designer specialists discussed the use of creative practices in designing sustainable futures. This inspirational talk was organized by Design Club, on 23rd September 2020. Associate professor Tuuli Mattelmäki from Aalto University gave an overview of an EU-supported project Creative Practices for Transformational Futures (CreaTures)…
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Playfulness creates savings
I participated on the 23th of September in Helsinki Design Week’s Aalto University’s Design club online talk “Creative practices for transformational futures” with Tuuli Mattelmäki, associate Professor and Head of department of Design in Aalto and Zaynep Falay a Partner in Hellon design agency, that does collaboration with Aalto University. They were talking about their…
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The Era of Disruption as an Innovation Enabler — How to Spot and Scan Trends to Kick-Start the Change?
The future takes time to build, and each day is an opportunity to reflect on and plan for the next day From the Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation by Carleton et al. 2013 The global pandemic outbreak in spring 2020 is continuing to disrupt markets, organizations and even our behaviours. As changes, new needs,…
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today – Malcolm X
Wouldn’t it be great to know what the future holds for us? Particularly in the difficult times we are currently living, it’s easy to wish we’d know what the world looks like in six months or a year. This of course isn’t possible, but futures thinking provides a framework for us to foresee what possible…
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What if… organizations could prepare for uncertainty?
What if an organization would know what are the pain points of its future customers, which are emerging competitors and partners, what type of ecosystems organization should be part of, what type of legal, social or political issues are arising, what is going to be next industrial trend, how to disrupt the industry? “What if”…
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Utopia or Dystopia? How is the Future Looking like in Service Design?
By Salla Kuuluvainen I recently attended two events which made me think about futures thinking and it’s relation to service design and innovation. Innovation, by definition, is an act that reaches towards the future, and and engages the innovator in creating a future that may be something they wish for.. or not. How can we…
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We Should All Be Interested in Ethical Questions Related to AI
by Miikka Paakkinen This post is the second of a two-part blog series on design topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Click here to read part one on trust. Note: I will not go deeper in to explaining the concepts of AI and robotics in this post. For a summary on the technologies…
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7 Things to Consider When Designing for Trust in AI and Robotics
by Miikka Paakkinen This post belongs to a two-part blog series on design topics related to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. You can read part two on ethics by clicking here. Note: I will not go deeper in to explaining the concepts of AI and robotics in this post. For a summary on the technologies…
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Next era of well-being
Since it was founded 50 years ago, Sitra has been a futures house and they have just updated their megatrends report from a Nordic viewpoint. As Finland’s celebrating its 100 year anniversary Sitra wanted to highlight the megatrends affecting work, democracy and inclusion, and growth and progress that are relevant to the Nordic model as…
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Licence to Fail
Design now – a day of discussion on the future of design Harald Herlin learning centre, Otaniemi, Espoo 2.11.2017 The day packed with talks and discussions was all about defining what design is going to be in the future. We heard an inspirational speech from Anna Valtonen (Vice President for Art and Creative Practices, Aalto…
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