Floris van der Marel, Pauliina Mattila, Tiina Tuulos Developing Purposeful Innovation Fitness Throughout this course we have received a wealth…
The Role of Human-Centered Design in Contact Tracing Applications
Introduction Crisis usually occurs because of hazards and disasters and ends impacting a community or whole society. Even though hazards…
Final Project Presentations
The Human-Centred Research and Design in Crisis course had its last session on September 2. The session’s agenda started with…
Recap: Resistance as a form of change – Power Dynamics, Social Movements and Design Facilitation
What is resistance? How does power come to be exerted in the everyday? How can be disrupt within set frames?…
Purposeful Innovation Skills to Unlock Opportunities in Crises
Participatory workshop: From Challenges to Opportunities Authors: Pauliina Mattila, Tiina Tuulos, Floris van der Marel In our earlier blogpost, Purposeful…
Workshop: Resistance as Change – Power Dynamics, Social Movements & Design Facilitation
Lecture & participatory workshop on discovering inflection points within systemic issues Led by: Natalia Villaman, MA in Creative Sustainability, Aalto…
Skills for the AI future
What skills and capabilities do professionals and leaders need for the future and does ‘AI understanding’ make the list?
Enforcing Ethics
The use of artificial intelligence is exponentially growing as the world further digitizes. As addressed in the lectures, as all…
Participatory Workshop: Purposeful Innovation Skills to Unlock Opportunities in Crises
TIME AND DATE: Wednesday 19th Aug 2020 | 10:15am-12.45pm (FI) / 5:15-7.45pm (AU) FACILITATORS: Floris van der Marel, Pauliina Mattila,…
Evolution of ICT ethics
In this blogpost, I like to highlight the history of ethics relating to ICT in order to highlight their importance…
Workshops Brainstorming Session
In this session on August 12, 10:15 – 11:45 we jointly develop themes for participant-led workshops. These are based in…
Decolonizing AI & Rethinking Resistance
Speaker: Prof. Nitin Sawhney, Aalto University On August 7, Prof. Nitin leads a participatory discussion, building on the previous two…
AI Ethics in Practice: Designing for Ecosystems
Speaker: Prof. Nitin Sawhney, Aalto University In the 2nd AI Ethics session on August 5th, Prof. Nitin Sawhney discusses ways…
Ethics & Politics of AI in Society
Speaker: Prof. Nitin Sawhney, Aalto University We kick off the second part of the Human-Centred Research and Design in Crisis…
Introduction & Reorientation for Course Part 2
We welcomed participants back for part 2 of the course on Human-Centred Research and Design in Crisis in an introspective…
Without diverse representation, there is no empathy for diverse experiences
I went into this course hoping to gain new tools which I could use to tackle my thesis during these…
Summary of Project Concept Presentations
Participants in the Human-Centred Research and Design in Crisis course are taking a two-week break from July 15-30. This provides…
Voice for Urban Mobility platform elaboration
Throughout the first part of ‘Human-Centred Research and Design in Crisis’ course, I’ve been interested in both international covid-tracing apps…
Purposeful Innovation Fitness as a Vehicle to Unlock Opportunities in Crises
In this article, we outline our quest to explore how design approach can be enhanced by incorporating more elements of resilience and genuine reflection, to support professionals to imagine and create futures that are better for themselves, their organisations, and society at large.
Reforming HCD for Contact Tracing Technologies
This blog is written by Kiko and Divya who collaborated as a team based on the similar interest in the…
Discovering, unlearning and relearning the thinking and doing
During the beginning of the summer I participated in the Human-Centred Research and Design in Crisis course, taught at Department…
Presentation of Project Concepts & Design Directions
The course participants presented their final design directions on July 14, 10:00 – 13:00. The three hours of presentations and…
Project Concept Presentations, July 14th
Participants present their interim project concepts and design directions in an interactive online session via Zoom and Miro on Tuesday,…
How does foreign aid look in Finland?
For the third assignment of this course I decided to focus on my thesis topics. The above created mapping of…
The Role of Social Media in Times of Crisis
In the previous lecture of Human-Centered Research and Design in Crisis course, different approaches on how Instagram can be used…
Reforming HCD in Relation to Challenges of Contact Tracing Technologies
During the previous sessions, our discussions opened up topics about reflections and critics on Human-centered Design (HCD) as a dominant…
What would a decolonised world (within design and beyond) look like?
The concept “Decolonise Design” represents a multitude of ideas about how we should be changing the way we think about…
Designing for limited senses
During the last weeks, we’ve discussed different users, who might not necessarily have abled body, good health or the ability…
EUvsVirus: Ethical and Transdisciplinary Practices when Designing for Societal Issues
Speaker: Cristina Zaga, Assistant Professor, Human-Centred Design Group, University of Twente Cristina Zaga, Assistant Professor in the Human-Centred Design Group,…
Sustainable ICT Innovation
The potential of technology in transforming humanitarian assistance has been recognized for sometime now. But the use of technology has…
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