Everyone and everything starts from something. Read on for insights on how to create traction with little resources from one of the journal publications on and of the community published this Fall.
Greetings from the design creativity research community, convening at Atlanta at the 4th International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC)! Read on for some interesting results from a place where laughter yoga, standardized tests, and prototyping facilities in actual castles all co-exist in peace.
We have a saying at Aalto University Design Factory that even the best processor is useless if the user interface prevents taking advantage of it. Successfully cultivating soft skills – the interface of expertise – requires asking some tough questions about priorities, measurements and Californian experiments.
Designers of complex systems such as large engines, airplanes, or manufacturing systems have unique struggles when compared to designers designing simpler and smaller systems. Any decision will have a system wider hard-to-understand impact, the system lifecycle can be decades, which means a series of expected and unexpected changes, etc. In recent work Prof. Katja with
New publication out! If you do research in any area, you are familiar with the fragmented nature of it. It is hard to grab a big picture of the field and how all the work really links together or builds on each other. In a journal article just published in the ASME Journal of Mechanical
The upcoming DESIGN 2016 Conference will feature a keynote address on successful adoption of design research from Design Factory’s Kevin Otto, Adjunct Professor from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The DESIGN 2016 Conference will be held in Dubrovnik Croatia on 16-19 May, and is part of a series that occurs every other year held by the
Andreas Dahin writes about what makes a good – or bad – poster in science communication.
Come celebrate Women’s Day, share breakfast and listen to what our power ladies have been up to studying teaching development! ADF’s Maria Clavert will talk about pedagogical change agency, and prof. Katrina Nordström and Anni Laakkonen will tell about their course pilot and learning goal assessment.
With some new additions to the “regulars” here at the researchers’ Aquarium on the 2nd floor, we’d like to update who’s doing what. Read on, and do come talk to us when you see us in the building!
What would be a better way to start a working day than by having a breakfast while listening to inspiring speeches by your colleagues? The Researchers’ Breakfast is organized jointly by the Aalto Factories, with the next breakfast being organized on Tuesday the 8th of December, starting at 8.30AM in the Engine Room. Come listen to
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