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admin 26/03/2015 Suomessa hämmentävänkin tuntematon suunnitteluajattelu eli design thinking -keskustelu on raivonnut maailmalla jo hyvän aikaa. Suunnittelijoiden luovuutta ja työskentelytapoja on liikemaailman eri auktoriteettien suilla esitetty ratkaisuiksi lähes minkä tahansa aihealueen haasteisiin. Suunnitteluajattelun on väitetty tuovan avun niin liiketoiminnan kehittämiseen kuin köyhyyden vastaiseen taisteluunkin lisäämällä mukaan ihmiskeskeisyyttä, luovuutta ja kokeilua. Ehkäpä meillä ajankohtainen sote-uudistuskin olisi hyötynyt tuhdimmasta ripauksesta suunnitteluajattelua?
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So why would anyone want to be a researcher? To kick off the Skolar series of this spring, we’ll hear three responses, starting with Tua’s. Sorry for the Finnish language, which is due to the initial pilot phase being limited to increasing communication between science and the general audience in Finnish:
Kehitystyössä on tärkeää keskittää voimat ideoiden jalostukseen ja toteutukseen, ei ideatehtailuun. Yrityksissä syntyy uutta, kun kehitys lomittuu kiinteäksi osaksi arkea.
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Miko, Samuli, Tua, and a bunch of bright young Finnish scientists are taking part in a pilot program to increase communication between scientists and the general public. Organized by Kaskas Media, Skolar aims to bring science to the masses.
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Inspired by Design Factory: Students’ room at Helsinki French-Finnish School (HRSK)
admin 05/02/2015As part of the We Learn-it EU project related to educational development, the Finnish French School of Munkkiniemi was one of three Schools part of the We Learn-Design course run through Aalto Design Factory. The course was an intensive 3 week programme dealing with design thinking, product and service development, teamwork, communication, prototyping and presentation skills. The theme or case study that was addressed by the participants was that of “Improving the High School experience”.
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PDP Halfway Show 2015
admin 28/01/2015Product Development Project students reach the middle point of the projects!
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ME310 Paper robot challenge
admin 14/01/2015Paperbot is one of the numerous challenges ME310 students take and maybe the funniest one: 1 week to build a robot while starting from scratch in electronics! The point of Paperbot is to get started with electronics and not being afraid of prototyping with them later on. Anyone can prototype basic electronics and Paperbot is the proof of it!
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PDP & IDBM teams tackling water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues in schools
Tiina Tuulos 18/12/2014How can we make sure that new innovations are truly benefiting children? What is the point of great innovations if no one uses them in the end? Can we even call them innovations? These were few of the questions raised by PDP and IDBM students from Aalto who are working with Helsinki University and Makerere University from Uganda. The student teams started their first field work period in Northern Uganda in November 2014.
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Cooperation between Aalto University and the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN is taking a new form. CERN has opened IdeaSquare, a new environment for technological development. The operating model of IdeaSquare is similar to that used by Aalto University in its Design Factory. Aalto University has assisted in the planning and implementation of the project.
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Presenting ADF in Poland
Tiina Tuulos 09/12/2014Two ADFers, Martti and Clemens, were invited to Warsaw, Poland late November by the IdeAGORA project (http://www.ideagora.mazovia.edu.pl), which organized a seminar for knowledge transfer from Finland. They gave a presentation about Design Factory and the interdisciplinary project-based courses in Aalto University for the Business Center Club Poland (BCC) and the Polish chamber of commerce. The seminar organized by IdeAGORA presented developments in Finland around new experimental platforms, just like Design Factory, especially with the focus on company involvement.
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