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Test: design for placemaking

Justyna Molik — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:35:54 +0000

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Webinar: The Future of Service Prototyping

Justyna Molik — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 08:38:59 +0000

Getting Up-To-Date with Service Design and Prototyping.

Please, join our webinar (Zoom link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67648111261) with a group of global service prototyping experts. In two hours, you’ll get an idea about main tools, technologies and topics being topical now. There will be brief 10-minute presentations with 5-minute Q&A. The webinar is chaired by professor Satu Miettinen.

1. Using Service and UX Design to Create Wearable Prototypes for Pandemic Challenges: Associate Professor Mari Suoheimo, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway, Researcher Virve Inget and Professor Jonna Häkkilä, University of Lapland, Finland

2. The effective use of an interactive tool for service prototyping: Project Manager Kiwoong Nam, University of Lapland, Finland

3. From Idea to Action, Prototyping A Peer-to-Peer Mobility Service: PhD Thomas Abrell, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Germany

4. Evolving the Service Prototyping at Centria UAS: Project Manager Johanna Hautamäki, Centria University of Applied Sciences, Finland

5. Financial Planning Service Design and Prototyping: Virtual Ethnographic Research: Researcher Sheng-Hung Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AgeLab, Cambridge, USA & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, USA and Professor Joseph F Coughlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cambridge, USA

6. How to Integrate the Life-Centred Design in Service Prototyping with Empathy: PhD Mariluz Soto, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile

7. Technology-enhanced Embodied Prototyping: Professor Satu Miettinen and Senior Lecturer Titta Jylkäs, University of Lapland, Finland

The webinar is hosted by the Cumulus Service Design Working Group in collaboration with “Co-Stars” Service Design Research group and Empathy Business project at the University of Lapland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AgeLab, Cambridge, Centria University of Applied Sciences and Universidad del Desarrollo.

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Credit based exchange proposal: a new open format for Higher Education?

Philipp Heidkamp — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 08:41:57 +0000

Many institutions increasingly experiment on flexible curricula. It demonstrates a need to shape educational pathways capable to integrate personalized plans of studies that allow graduating students to be competitive in the professions, or in accessing quality opportunities to continue their learning pathways.

Not only students’ preferences but also industry’s expectations indicate that integrated knowledge and competencies will be pivotal for successful careers. If many undergraduate students dedicate unprecedented self-studies research efforts for preparing their portfolio it means that they haven’t found in their curriculum all what was needed to prepare them to the next career steps. Wouldn’t it be beneficial if they could take modules in the universities that they are considering for their Master?

Eventually, the challenges brought about by Covid-19 and strong traveling limitations especially affect international students.

The various forms of HE international cooperation rely predominantly on mutual recognition of credits that in its turn implies modules mapping, assessment of learning outcomes and delivery modes of courses taken in the partner institution.

Would it be possible to exploit existing educational platforms for the integration of shared modules between partner institutions, from which students can choose to forge their curricula?

Would this allow for a much more open access to international education, if the modules were made available on-line, or in hybrid formats? The platform could contain both modules belonging to the institution where they were originated, and modules jointly designed by partner institutions.

On the 7^th of July, we would like to share with the Cumulus members our vision on how this Credit-based exchange could work and we invite member institutions to join our initiative.

Please join us via this zoom link. Time is 12.00 UTC!

Mariia Zolotova, Ph. D.
Massimo Imparato MArc UniGe IS4CE aCSDf

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Meeting & Connecting through the Tandem System

Justyna Molik — Fri, 13 May 2022 13:18:13 +0000

“With regard of our main focus “internationalisation” and the fact that three years in a row the Spring conference of Cumulus is not taking place under normal conditions, the xFiles internationalisation team would like to propose a workshop connecting Cumulus member institution, stimulating dialogues and conversations across continents.”

Join us on Zoom through this link.

New members applicants 2022 included!

Read more about the Cumulus X-files (International Affairs) Working Group. Cumulus Working Groups are communities of practice created by and for our members to share expertise and engage on a diversity of topics that matter to our disciplines.

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‘Service design – in the moment of crisis’ CWG panel discussion

Justyna Molik — Fri, 13 May 2022 10:14:40 +0000

Service Design Working Group organized an open panel discussion “Service design – in the moment of crisis” on the 25th of May, 2022.

Professors Nicola Morelli and Satu Miettinen opened panel with short introductions about the service design role and insights in conflicted and complex space.

There was an open mic to share insights, reconnect after the pandemic and update on current and future events on service design.

Please contact Prof. Miettinen at satu.miettinen[at]ulapland.fi for any updates on the group’s activities.

The session was recorded, watch it on YouTube

Read more about the Cumulus Service Design Working Group. Cumulus Working Groups are communities of practice created by and for our members to share expertise and engage on a diversity of topics that matter to our disciplines

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Atlas of Opportunities / Part 1

Philipp Heidkamp — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:54:28 +0000

Remote learning, teaching and collaboration had deep impacts on the transformation of our curricula, on the way we understand „the local“ and place as a quality and on the way we engage in real world problems. What are emerging formats in design education we can share and learn from? We will investigate different examples, discuss them and find criteria to work on a global Atlas of Opportunities bringing together different engaged design educators. This activity is part of the New European Bauhaus initiative of Cumulus.
We welcome everybody interested in our „global conversation“, contributing with diverse experiences and viewpoints.

This time, we will have three colleagues sharing their experiences and cases for the Atlas of Opportunities:

Lolita Dutta and Yatra Khan: Design Craft and Collaboration (UID, India) [starting at 6:00 in the video] Ramon Llonch and Saul Baeza: Route Senegal (ELISAVA, Spain) [starting at 24:30 in the video] Milenko Prvacki: Tropical Lab (Lasalle Collge of the Arts, Singapore) [starting at 46:30 in the video]

Moderation: Teresa Franqueira (Portugal) and Philipp Heidkamp (Germany)

As announced in the session, we are looking forward to presentations of similar and relevant cases for our Atlas – please reach out to us by eMail.

Below you find the recording of the session, additional material of the presenters will follow.

A beta and work in progress of our Atlas of Opportunities map can be found here.

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Cumulus + New European Bauhaus Initiative Launch

cumulustest — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:48:31 +0000

Leading Design Education Institutions In/Through the Crisis

Philipp Heidkamp — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:44:10 +0000

Leaders from design institutions from Europe, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Israel, USA, Brazil… joined this global conversation about the impacts and opportunities of the current crisis as a fundamental moment in time.

The ambitious plan of this Working Group is to share, learn from each other how we are navigating through the crisis and all design the New Normal – and to co-create ideas and concrete steps to go forward.

In this initial session, KP Lee (Hong Kong), Tadanori Nagasawa (Tokyo), Gordon Hush (Glasgow), Martin Christensen (Copenhagen), Lene Tanggaard (Oslo), Alok Nandi (Brussels) and Claire Qi (Hangzhou) shared specific expertise that ignited fruitful discussions.

Based on this 3 hour-session and a related collaborative whiteboard, our ambition is to design an architecture of collaboration where members of the community can benefit from and contribute through an ongoing discussion and discourse.