Aalto DF
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Felipe Gárate Sepúveda
Joel 18/01/2022
Albin Weckström
Joel 22/11/2021
Apurva Ganoo
Joel 13/09/2021
Sushant Passi
Joel 26/05/2021
Sara Santos Figueiredo
admin 16/03/2021
Jasmine Xie
Joel 07/01/2021
Anna Kuukka
Tua Björklund 06/04/2019Translating insight and creating tools for understanding
Anna has a multidisciplinary design background and she is accustomed to switching perspectives between research, trend forecasting, concept design, design management, product development and brand building. At Design Factory she is in charge brand communication and art direction of artifacts, services, spaces and other experimental touchpoints. Anna is passionate about creating design solutions that bridge abstract and concrete ideas, enable stakeholders to share understanding, and, above all, improve the life of their end-users.
Anna has a MA in design from Aalto University (2013) including International Design Business Management as her Minor.
Teo Keipi
Tua Björklund 04/04/2019Social aspects of innovating design thinking
Teo is a social scientist with a background in social psychology, economic sociology and behavioural economics. His past research has involved group decision making, attitudes and behavioural patterns linked to identity including issues of trust, wellbeing, risk assessment, accountability and social tie effects among others. His research at the Design Factory focuses on mapping contextual factors that influence motivational, performance and cooperative aspects of organisational decision-making that can be enhanced by the design thinking approach.
In terms of Design Factory projects, Teo contributes primarily to Design+, DesignBites and DRIVE, studying how the design thinking approach and nuanced group dynamics can be leveraged for innovating business strategy.
In the private sector, Teo has been involved with building cooperative strategies between corporations and start-ups in addition to studying corporate experiences of innovating and integrating start-up expertise within complex and well-established companies.
Teo has a PhD in Economic Sociology from the University of Turku (2016).
