Designing for New Realities! seminar - follow the stream on March 6th
05.03.2012
Can socially aware design approaches really offer something meaningful that we can adopt today, and will they be relevant even tomorrow?
Aalto University will strive to answer these questions in a seminar organised on the 6th of March 2012
The international Designing for New Realities! -seminar challenges us to re-consider the significance of design in society. The seminar opens up the historical and current trends of responsible design through real-life projects and creates perspectives into the future.
The event crosses boundaries between countries, age groups, nationalities, and different sectors of the economy by including contributions from students, researchers, professors, overseas university partners, and experts. Aalto's partner universities (Tongji University, China and MIT and the Stanford University, USA-originating Embrace Global) will take part in the seminar and provide concrete examples to be displayed in the DesignWorld exhibition at the Design Museum.
The seminar is by invitation only. You can follow the live streaming at goodmood.fi/aalto/ from 10 am to 4 pm.
Seminar program
10.00 Opening words by President Tuula Teeri
10.15 Papanek's heritage – Design for a Real World
Professor Yrjö Sotamaa
11:00 Aalto Global Impact, Presentations and Discussion
Alastair Fuad-Luke, Professor, moderator
Andy Clutterbuck, Aalto-Unicef collaboration
Minna Halme, Professor
Turkka Keinonen, Professor
Sujil Kodathoor, Creative Sustainability student
Olli Varis, Professor
Inari Virkkala, Architecture student
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Designing for New Relationships
Researcher Tuuli Mattelmäki
13.50 A Design Driven Sustainable Community
Project Professor Lou Yongqi, Tongji University
14.10 Embrace Global,
COO Linus Liang
14.30 Break
14:50 Copenhagen Wheel,
SENSEable City Lab Eric Baczuk, MIT
15.10 Cape Town Calling,
Professor Mugendi M'Rithaa, Cape Town University
15.30 Panel Discussion
Professor Alastair Fuad-Luke and Cindy Kohtala moderators
Senior Researcher Tuuli Mattelmäki, Aalto University
Professor Lou Yongqi, Tongji University
COO Linus Liang, Embrace Global
Designer, Architect Eric Baczuk, MIT
Dr, Mugendi M`Rithaa, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Professor Turkka Keinonen, Aalto University
Professor Martin Steinert, Stanford University, Centre of Design Research
16.00 Closing Words
Dean Helena Hyvönen