1.6.2010

This is a monthly update by Design Factory research team (DFRT), that is Tua, Senni, Maria, Anu, Meri-Maaria and Miko.

WHAT’S UP?

• Miko has joined our forces from PDR’s PKII project. He will be working with e.g. start up and ADF cases, as well as the LUTUS project.
• DFRT now starts each weekly meeting with a quick, 10-minute rough prototyping exercise to live up to the spirit of ADF and collect experiences of different methods. So far we’ve e.g. illustrated our research phase and goals with play-doh and fingerpaint. We can recommend the practice as a fun way to start meetings!
• DFRT organized a two-day module for Dipoli’s Diploma in Product Development supplementary education program on the context of product development. PD6 was utilized to work on the problems they had named, and a series of experimentation exercises were given as homework to encourage making an actual impact on behavior.
• The teaching development partnership program (DF-Opekumppani) has progressed to first meetings with teachers from Aalto University Schools.
• DFRT is starting a new case on creating business concepts, focusing on a design thinking and strategy perspective. At the moment, we are recruiting entrepreneurs for interviews.
• Anu participated in Future workshop on co-operation and relationship between construction industry and Aalto civil engineering department. She also joined the planning of teachers’ pedagogical training program (60cr) for Aalto teachers. BE-program will be part of the forthcoming program.
• Miko will spend June and July in Paris and will be visiting the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech to see the recently established d.school Paris/d.thinking Paris design program.

Interesting reading:

• If you are interested in rush and time limits, check out A. R. Hochschild’s book “The Time Bind”.

Until next month,
DFRT

Want to spend your summer at Design Factory? Feel free to do so in any case, but here is a great excuse:

Product Sound Design Summer School, August 23-26 2010, Aalto University, Design Factory, Espoo, Finland

Future products will rely on our natural capabilities of continuous and physical interaction. Moreover, for the best experience in their use, they need to stimulate, but not saturate, all our senses. Our sense of hearing is quite advanced; yet only a few product developers, engineers, marketing teams, and designers know how to make use of it properly. The COST-SID action, over the years, has developed a growing body of methods, tools, and techniques to get you started.

Our mission in this summer school is to educate the future product design and development team members with a specific competence on interactive sound. The training school is strategically positioned as a first step in a longer research and training on the integration of SID product sound design methods with  Product Design and Development, as thought at the Aalto University and MIT, for example.

Upon completing the summer school, the participants will be able to

• use effective strategies for concept generation and communication regarding the usage of sound in future products,
• prototype and evaluate an interactive sonic product according to a scenario given by the partnering companies  HipUI and  Powerkiss
• earn 2 ECTS from the Aalto University.

Target Participants

The target participants are 16-20 students in the last year of masters studies, or first two years of PhD studies in design, engineering, or economics. They will be selected by the relevance of their studies or research to the product sound design. We expect about half of the trainees to be Aalto students.

Application

The applicants should send,

• a CV,
• a letter of motivation that clearly indicates the applicant’s motivation, previous experience with interactive product sound design, and expectations from this training activity,
• an official transcript of completed and remaining studies, all in Portable Document Format (PDF) to  Cumhur Erkut latest by Monday, June 21, 2010.

The summer school requires no registration fee. For the selected participants from outside of Finland, basic financial support that would cover the most economic travel and accommodation costs will be provided by the COST IC0601 Action SID.

More information:

• Summer School website

The last breakfast of the spring will be organized on June 10th, 2010. The superpopular breakfasts will be on holiday for the summer and continue in the fall.

Breakfast at DFfany’s – have a hearty start to your day!

• Come to Aalto Design Factory in Otaniemi and enjoy a €2 breakfast of porridge, oven-fresh buns, coffee and – above all – the inspiring company.
• Every Tuesday and Thursday morning 8-10 the table is set for serendipity, lucky coincidences!
• Please register beforehand at www.otaniemi.fi/oin

Organizer:

Otaniemi Marketing
Melissa
+358 50 543 4788

Aalto Design Factory is looking for Aalto teachers to participate in a new teaching development program Opekumppani. The program offers teachers pedagogical and practical support in order to encourage continuous development of teaching practices. Opekumppani offers teachers

• the pedagogical knowledge base of a Master of Education,
• additional work force and support in planning, executing and evaluating a teaching and learning session,
• Design Factory tools and spaces for one day and
• information of Design Factory as passion-based experimental platform of co-creation and new teaching philosophy.

Opekumppani includes three meetings and a teaching session that fits into teachers’ regular teaching program. Interested teachers are welcome to participate by contacting Maria Clavert via email (maria.clavert@tkk.fi) or phone (0505665683).

IN FINNISH:

Aalto-yliopiston Design Factory etsii Aallon korkeakoulujen opettajia osallistumaan uuteen Opekumppani-hankkeeseen. Opekumppani on Design Factoryn tarjoama pedagoginen käytännön tuki opettajan ehdoilla tapahtuvaan oman opetuksen kehittämiskokeiluun, jonka tavoitteena on rohkaista opettajia jatkuvaan opetuksen kehittämiseen. DF-Opekumppani tarjoaa opettajalle kasvatustieteen maisterin pedagogisen osaamisen, työpanoksen ja tuen opetustilanteen suunnittelussa, toteutuksessa ja jälkipuinnissa, Design Factoryn opetustilat ja –välineet käyttöön yhdeksi päiväksi sekä tietoa Design Factorystä opetusympäristönä. Hanke sisältää yhteensä kolme vapaasti sovittavaa tapaamiskertaa sekä yhden, omaan opetukseen integroitavan opetustilanteen Design Factoryllä. Kiinnostuneita opettajia pyydetään ottamaan yhteyttä sähköpostilla maria.clavert@tkk.fi tai puhelimitse 050-5665683.

More information:

• Opekumppani brochure (pdf)

Dear all,

the academic year 2009-2010 is approaching its end. As a consequence, it is time to wrap up Aalto Design Factory’s activities in the form of an annual report. This year, we are planning to do also a digital video version of our story for the past year in addition to the printed brochure, so we need lots and lots of juicy material.

If you have any fascinating stories, photos, projects, initiatives, experiences or other materials relating to Design Factory you want to share with the world, now is the time to step up! Your comments, thoughts and development ideas relating to the report are also warmly welcomed.

Contributions from the users, habitants and visitors of Design Factory will be rewarded with added visibility for your company or project. The printed version of the report will be distributed to various stakeholders throughout next year. The video report will be open for the entire world.

We encourage you to raise your voice and share the amazing stuff you’ve been up to this year!

• Please contact Annaleena Kuronen (firstname.lastname@tkk.fi) or Päivi Oinonen (firstname.lastname@student.hse.fi) for more information.
• Feel free to comment below for any spontaneous ideas.
• You may also post your suggestions to our Facebook page.

We will be contacting relevant DF habitants during the beginning of June, but proactivity will be appreciated! Looking forward to hearing from you,

Anski & Päivi

SoMeTime 2010 is an unprecedented collaboratively and transparently produced event to be held at Aalto Design Factory on May 22nd. It will gather the most active Finnish social media users and influencers together. The idea is to network and generate ideas how social media could be used.

For businesses and communities SomeTime 2010 offers a chance to reach the Finnish social media influencers. Theme of the first time held SoMeTime event is “Mobile social media”.

It all began from an idea. The idea grew bigger and bigger. And all of this was done online. People started to organize the event with the help of Facebook, Twitter, Wiki and Google Docs. Meeting face-to-face was challenging, because organizers had their own companies and jobs. Social media made it happen.

More info about the upcoming event:

• Event on Facebook
• Live Stream (starts on Sat at 9)

The street campaign of the social initative, Soita mummolle <3, was successfully kicked off yesterday on May 19th in sunny Helsinki.

“Thanks to the great weather and the cheerful spirit of the participants who showed up to the flash-mob the Action was the best kickstart one could wish”, says Stefania Passera, an agitator behind the initiative.

One team in Kamppi and one team in Esplanadi, the group collected many support pictures and caused surprise, smiles and interest in many passers-by. You can check already almost all the pictures in lower resolution from Facebook, while on Flickr you can find so far most of the hi-res pictures from Esplanadi.

Soita Mummolle is a campaign aiming to sensitize people about the issue of seniors’ loneliness. Its “communication weapons” are street campaigns, flash-mobs, guerrilla marketing and PR. For everybody who is interested to join the campaign in the next round, the calendar of the next Street Actions is this:
2.6.
16.6.
30.6.
21.7.
28.7.
4.8.

More info:

• Soita mummolle on Facebook
• Website

Vuoden ilmastoteko design competition is now open for all Aalto University students. See more information below (unfortunately in Finnish only!).

Energiateollisuus ry on käynnistänyt Aalto-yliopiston opiskelijoille Vuoden ilmastoteko -kiertopalkinnon suunnittelukilpailun. Kilpailijoiden tehtävänä on suunnitella kiertopalkinto, joka kuvastaa vähäpäästöistä tulevaisuutta 2050.

Suunnittelukilpailu on kaksivaiheinen. Voittajatyön suunnittelija palkitaan 2 000 euron stipendillä. Lisäksi kaikki muut toisen kierroksen kilpailutyöt saavat 200 euron kannustuspalkinnon.

Ohjeistus ja aikataulu

• Kilpailutyön tulee olla kooltaan noin 30cm x 30cm.
• Ensimmäisessä vaiheessa kilpailijat toimittavat alustavat kuvaukset/hahmotelmat kiertopalkinnosta1.6.2010 mennessä.
• Toiselle kierrokselle ja jatkotyöstämistä varten valitaan 2-6 parasta työtä, joiden lopullisten suunnitelmien (3d-mallinnus materiaalisuunnitelmineen sekä kustannusarvioineen) tulee olla valmiina 1.8.2010 mennessä.
• Voittajatyö valitaan 20.8.2010.
• Voittaja huolehtii palkinnon fyysisestä toteuttamisesta 1.10.2010 mennessä, ja on mukana luovuttamassa suunnittelemaansa palkintoa Vuoden ilmastoteko –kilpailun voittajalle 18.11.2010 Helsingissä.
• Energiateollisuus kattaa palkinnon materiaaleista ja toteuttamisesta mahdollisesti aiheutuvat kulut.

Kilpailun voittotyön valinnassa tullaan kiinnittämään huomiota ehdotusten ilmastomyönteisyyteen, innovatiivisuuteen ja materiaalien oivaltavaan käyttöön.

Lisätietoja Vuoden ilmastoteko -ohjelmasta osoitteessa www.vuodenilmastoteko.fi.

Tiedustelut ja kilpailutöiden vastaanotto:

Asiantuntija Ina Lehto
Energiateollisuus ry
PL 100, Helsinki
puh +35840 570 5589
ina.lehto [ät] energia.fi

Dear friend,

We have the pleasure to invite you to celebrate the Opening Day of Aalto-Tongji Design Factory with us. The Opening Day will be Tuesday 25th May, starting at 11:00.

The official invitation and map how to get there is attached. There will be guidance from the Zhangwu Road 100 Gate to the ATDF.

ATDF is a permanent, creative environment bringing together universities, business and society to create new ways of learning, research and innovative collaboration.

ATDF is the first phase in the process of building the Sino-Finnish Center at Tongji University in cooperation with Aalto and Tongji Universities.

ATDF is located at Zhangwu Road 100, Yangpu District, Shanghai

Programme for the Opening Day:

11 – 13 Open Doors
14 – 15 Official Opening and Signing Ceremony (R.S.V.P needed)
15 – 18 Open Doors
18 – 19 Workshop presentations

During the morning and afternoon Open Doors, ATDF is open for public to come and experience the place first hand, according to your own schedule. During the afternoon Open Doors you can also observe ongoing workshop according to the ATDF principles of doing and having fun. The workshop presentations are also open for public.

The Official Opening and Signing Ceremony will be during 14:00-15:00, in which the agreement between the two universities will be signed of establishing the Sino-Finnish Centre. For the Official Opening & Signing Ceremony, R.S.V.P is needed:

R.S.V.P by May 21st to viljami.lyytikainen@tkk.fi

President Pei Gang of Tongji University and President Tuula Teeri of Aalto University will honor the Opening Ceremony with their presence.

Welcome!

www.shanghai.aalto.fi

Best regards

Aalto Tongji Design Factory
Address: 100 Zhangwu Road, Yangpu, Shanghai
+86 15021 888672

• ATDF_invitation (in English)