Research
For researchers, Design Factory offers unique opportunities to form and participate in ambiguous research initiatives challenging the industry status quo. This is due to the Factory’s close relationships with industry partners and its role as an enabler of interdisciplinary research agenda. For traditional within-discipline research efforts, the Factory is an interesting environment to meet people, collect empirical data, and to study different methods and phenomena related to innovation, design, business and education.
On this page you will find the ongoing research project in Aalto Design Factory
DFRT
Aalto Design Factory’s own research
webpageDesign Factory’s own research team, DFRT, aims to provide a theoretical base and new ideas for the long-term continuous development of the Factory. The research explores central ideas of the Design Factory philosophy, supporting the development of the passion-based co-creation and learning platform. Enabling experimentation and continuous development forms the heart of both the Factory, and DFRT research. Learning and development actions are perceived as fundamentally linked to each other – one cannot occur without the other. The focus is on how successful development work and active interaction with one’s surroundings are enabled in different environments.
MIND
webpageMIND is a multidisciplinary research group of Aalto University.
- + Designers, engineers, economists
- + A tight network of 20 experts from different fields
- + 800 MIND agents all over the world
Our multidisciplinary backgrounds form a unique combination of research and business expertise.
MIND works on several projects extending from traditional business and innovation research to applied research projects.
Product Design Research
webpageResearch is focused on product development methods including conceptual design, modularization, integrated product development process and industrial design and design for manufacturing topics. The ‘Design Factory’ serves as the group’s essential research environment.
4D-Space
webpageMIDE 4D-Space project is focused on the research and development of future retail services in dialog with the customers and retailers. The project aims at surfacing innovations rapidly by involving end user feedback in the development cycle. Rapid software prototype development combines novel interactive techniques and practices in parallel to academic research activities. The research target group covers a range of actors from private sector to individual customers, retailers and the largest domestic real estate developers.
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