2015 EXTENSION PACK for DFGN ATLAS
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DESIGN FACTORY GLOBAL NETWORK Design Factory Global Network (DFGN), is a network of institutions, which all have their own innovation platforms that drive change towards a better learning culture. The original Design Factory in Aalto was built to carry out the mission of educating the best product designers in the world, focusing on design innovation and interdisciplinary problem based learning. DFGN started to form as other international institutions identified Aalto University Design Factory (ADF) as a best-practice and have consequently built their own innovation platforms, to cater for their own development needs and interests.
AALTO DESIGN FACTORY
DFGN emerged in 2012 as the third Design Factory was opened, taking the Design Factory concept from a partnership and collaboration to a network. By the end of 2015 DFGN has grown into a network of 11 institutions. Ten Design Factories, nine of which have officially launched, and one collaboration partner. This brochure will provide a review of the year 2015 in the network, for ADF partners and stakeholders.
FRISIAN DESIGN FACTORY
NEXUS DESIGN FACTORY
PORTO DESIGN FACTORY
RTU DESIGN FACTORY IDEASQUARE @ CERN
DESIGN FACTORY KOREA SINO-FINNISH CENTRE
MELBOURNE DESIGN FACTORY DUOC DESIGN FACTORY
At the core of the activities at all Design Factories are interdisciplinary problem-based project courses where students work together with industry sponsors. This makes them the obvious and most often the first form of collaboration within the DFGN. ADF supports the development of both the platforms as well as the courses, leading to similar ways of working despite the geographical distribution. Aalto University Design Factory
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NEW FAMILY
MEMBERS
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DESIGN FACTORY KOREA
Yonsei University launched Design Factory Korea on their Songdo Campus just outside Seoul in April 2015. “Fun makes learning more effective. This is just the start of new type of learning,� emphasised Tuula Teeri, President of Aalto University, in her speech in the opening ceremony.
Image: President of Aalto University Tuula Teeri, President of Yonsei University Jeong Kap-young and Finnish Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Matti Heimonen. Picture by the Office of External Affairs of Yonsei University
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PORTO DESIGN FACTORY
Porto Polytechnic hosted the official inauguration of Porto Design Factory, the 1000m2 building, in May 2015. Rui Coutinho, who explains his role as the PDF fire-starter, sheds light on the reasons behind the project. “IPP wanted a meeting point, to be able to bring the community together, to get rid of the existing barriers for collaboration. In addition, it is also the best possible platform for IPP to collaborate more with industry, to be a catalyst for the socio-economic transformation of the whole region.�
Image: Corner House, the kitchen in PDF brings everyone together.
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PHILAU NEXUS DESIGN FACTORY
The launch of the first Design Factory in North America was celebrated in September 2015 as Philadelphia University opened Nexus Design Factory. The official launch was organized to coincide PhilaU’s interdisciplinary industry-facing Nexus Maximus event, as it showcases PhilaU’s commitment to Nexus learning.
Image: PhilaU Vice President for Innovation D.R. Widder with Kalevi “Eetu” Ekman from ADF. Picture by Gary Schempp Photography
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FRISIAN DESIGN FACTORY
NHL University of Applied Sciences in the city of Leeuwarden in the northern Netherlands officially launched Frisian Design Factory in November 2015. FDF Coordinator Eric Voigt said, that the goal is that the innovation hub will already in 2016 become a center for cooperation between businesses and universities. In the next few years, the whole newly renovated prison area will be developed into a centre for creative and innovative activities, with the goal of being ready by 2018 when Leeuwarden will be the European Capital of Culture.
Image: Officially launching the FDF from left to right: Dennis Mous, from the Dutch company Boei, Willem Smink, Rector, NHL University of Applied Sciences, Liesbeth Vos, Chair, Friesland College, Jeroen de Boer, D’Lab Blokhuispoort, Kalevi Ekman, Director, ADF and Thea Koster, Alderman, City of Leeuwarden Image by Frisian Design Factory
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EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
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DF BOOTCAMP 2015 BROUGHT 5 INSTITUTIONS TO ADF
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DF Bootcamp is a week-long intensive hands-on experience of the DF concept. Participants from international universities learn the ins and outs of the interdisciplinary platform and take their first steps towards preferred by kick starting the planning of their own experiment in their own home institution. Bootcamp 2015 was held in May 2015. There were altogether 16 participants; old friends from Porto and Frisian Design Factory and from long-time collaborator PACE university, and completely new friends from UP Valencia in Spain and Ghent University in Belgium.
FIRST DF CRASH COURSE WAS HELD IN DECEMBER 2015
Experimentation with new models continue. DF Crash Course was organized for the 1st time in December 2015 for 11 participants from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. DF Crash Course is a 1-day workshop for familiarizing international universities with the DF concept and kick starting the planning of their own platform. In one day we covered the basics of the DF: problem-based learning, innovative culture and working with industry. METU has already started their own interdisciplinary courses and is attending DF Bootcamp in 2016.
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INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FACTORY WEEK 2015 IN SANTIAGO International Design Factory Week (IDFW) is the annual meeting of DFGN members and the biggest annual event in the network. IDFW is organized for the members to learn from each other and plan collaboration for the following year. In 2015 the event was hosted by Duoc Design Factory and Duoc UC in Santiago de Chile. 25 participants from 10 different universities gathered in South America for one week. Every year the number of institutions involved keeps growing but also the maturity of the platforms, which enables for more agile collaboration. Many initiatives were kicked-off during the week, and some planned actions have already been taken (EU-funding application, Rat Relay-pilot, DF Toolbox) some will take place later this year (Nexus Maximus and TAF collaboration with the Millenium Technology prize).
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YONSEI SUMMER SCHOOL
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Yonsei summer school, an intensive 3 week long product development course, was organized during the first three weeks of August in ADF. Altogether 19 students from Yonsei University, School of Integrated Technology participated in the intensive course and a truly Finnish experience including sauna and a swim in a lake. The 2016 summer school, to be the 3rd consecutive one, is currently in planning stage.
FINAL GALA OF CBI ll COURSE AT CERN IN FEBRUARY 2015 Challenge Based Innovation II course coordinated by Ideasquare @ CERN took place from Sept 2014 to Feb 2015. Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) is a project course, where multidisciplinary student teams and their instructors collaborate with researchers at CERN to discover novel solutions for the future of humankind. The projects are an elaborate mixture, where the technologies derived from research at CERN meet societal, human-driven needs. Aalto had nine students from different schools in two teams participate in the course.
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PDP COURSE A PLATFORM FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION In academic year 2014-2015 participants from nine international universities took part in PDP, including DF Melbourne, Aalto-Tongji DF, Porto DF, PhilaU Nexus DF and PACE University from DFGN. In 2015-2016 there are eight international universities, including DF Korea, Aalto-Tongji DF, Porto DF, PhilaU Nexus DF and PACE University. Two project briefs in PDP come from sponsoring companies via the partner universities: one in Austria in collaboration with TU Graz, and one in Portugal in collaboration with Porto DF. Over the years Tongji University, DF Melbourne and Porto DF have participated also in Stanford lead ME310 program, creating additional mobility with shared projects between the Design Factories.
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ADF RECEIVED THE AALTO HIGH 5 AWARD
DF STAFF MOBILITY
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Aalto High5 community builder award by Aalto University was given to ADF, and the community extends to five different continents making DFGN a big part of our community.
In 2015 Jussi Hannula from ADF started employment in Porto, Meri Vainio from ATDF in Yonsei in Korea.There are currently 6 former ADF employees or Aalto alumni working in different Design Factories employed by the hosting institution.
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2016 ADVENTURES ADVENTURES
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RAT RELAY - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SPRINT IN DFGN The first phase of Rat Relay, a 48-hour pilot took place in January 2016. In this teaching experiment global problems were solved for eight hours by one country and then passed on to a new country, just like runners pass on the baton in a relay. ADF staff members and student volunteers worked in interdisciplinary teams of four to six people in eight-hour slots to solve the problems originating from the four different countries. Members of the network were presumably the first people ever to test teaching product development in a 48-hour global relay.
Therefore DFGN hopes to on one side experiment with best practices in transferring knowledge onwards, but also how to use this model to capitalize on the global spread of the network to solve some of the biggest global problems currently facing the society.
Rat Relay simulates a real-world situation in industrial product development. Often only one individual or team works on a project for a limited time and not from the project’s beginning to its end.
Helsinki
Aalto Design Factory
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Design Factory Melbourne
Philadelphia
Image: In addition to Aalto Design Factory (ADF), participants in the experiment were Porto Design Factory (Portugal), Design Factory Melbourne (Australia) and Nexus Design Factory (USA).
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Nexus Design Factory
Porto
Porto Design Factory
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DRIVE AND LAPASSION FUNDING APPLICATIONS DFGN with other familiar institutions have created consortiums to apply for EU-funding to enable the collaboration of like-minded individuals. Already at the start of 2016, we have two applications pending. 1) Katja Hölttä-Otto and Tua Björklund lead the DRIVE consortium application for Horizon 2020 funding (co-creation for growth and inclusion). Drive will scale up the tools and methods from a network of Design Factories and enrich it with other successful regional, national and European experiences in order to match the public and corporate demand for innovative solutions with the innovation and creative potential of users, that will be enhanced by a combination of human capital, scientific partnerships and risk-sharing funding instruments.
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2) Vice-President Carlos Ramos from Porto Polytechnic (and PDF) lead the LAPASSION application for Erasmus+ funding to transfer the best practices of interdisciplinary problem based learning (such as Product Development Project -course) from Europe to South America.
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DF BOOTCAMP 2016
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DF Bootcamp 2016 will be organised from April 11th to 15th in ADF. Attending institutions are Middle East Technical University (METU) from Turkey, PUC Peru, PU Javeriana from Colombia, Wintec from New Zealand, RTU Design Factory from Latvia and Frisian Design Factory from the Netherlands.
LAUNCHING IN 2016
Ghent University in Belgium and Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain plan to launch their Design Factories in 2016. In addition RTU Design Factory plans to host the inauguration of their new renovated expansion.
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NEXUS MAXIMUS AALTO COMING IN 2016
PhilaU has been organizing a 4-day innovation sprint bringing together students from various disciplines. Aalto Ventures Program has participated in this in 2014 and 2015. DFGN members hope to participate in it in 2016 in different ways, either by sending students over to PhilaU, or by organising Nexus Maximus in their own institutions. ADF plans to host a Nexus Maximus Aalto from Sept 9th to 12th 2016. Image by Aalto Ventures Program
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DF BOOK TO DOCUMENT DF WAYS OF WORKING
DF book is in the works, lead by Tua Bjรถrklund, Senni Kirjavainen and Miko Laakso from ADF. The aim is to create a book that introduces many of the philosophies and ways of working of DF. The book has contributors from ADF, SDF and ESADE, business school in Barcelona, Spain. Image: writing hackathon in ADF for all contributors who are writing chapters for the book
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INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FACTORY WEEK 2016 TO BE ORGANIZED AT CERN International Design Factory Week 2016 will be organized by Ideasquare @CERN from Dec 12th to 18th 2016. This will be the first time the IDFW is organized by non-educational institution.
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YEAR 2015 HIGHLIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD
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DESIGN FACTORY MELBOURNE Recent developments in DFM include starting the PhD surf school (interdisciplinary industry engaged PhD program). The platform is currently undergoing rebranding from Swinburne Design Factory to Design Factory Melbourne. Swinburne University is launching a strategic initiative called Innovation Precinct, of which DFM will become a focal part of. The Innovation Precinct will be hosted in an old fire station and the space design for this is currently in the works.
SINO-FINNISH CENTRE
The new deputy vice-chancellor of research is strategically positioning DFM so that every student should have a DF experience as part of their degree in Swinburne. DFM is attracting a lot of interest from other universities in the area, and will be supporting Wintec in New Zealand in developing interdisciplinary project courses. www.sdf.org.au
Recent developments in SFC include a plan to include SFC course offering within the new Shanghai International College of Design & Innovation, the new college established by Aalto ARTS & Tongji. Tongji University has set up a Fab Lab in Shenzhen. Professor Matti Hämäläinen is building an IT Lab to SFC. Living Lab Shanghai (based on SFC model) has been accepted as a member of ENOLL (European Network of Living Labs). sinofinnishcentre.org/beta/
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DUOC UC DESIGN FACTORY
DDF hosted International Design Factory Week 2015, which brought a lot of positive attention and publicity for DDF within Duoc UC. Three Duoc UC Campuses (Santiago, Concepción and Vina del Mar) have a Design Factory and DF courses. Duoc UC President has made a request for DDF to provide metrics and data how the DF experience has changed the students’ professional profiles which has lead to a development of a study plan. www.duoc.cl/designfactory/
IDEASQUARE @ CERN Recent developments at Ideasquare include refining focus to “RET” (research, education and technology). During the past 6-12 months, the Ideasquare community has grown; more people within CERN know of Ideasquare and its nature, and know how to utilize it. Ideasquare is hosting a lot of different kinds of activities (courses, workshops, hackathons) and CBI Mediterranean during fall 2015 brought together universities from Spain and Italy. Currently the priority is to look for more research funding and new projects for the space, and the team is welcoming ideas from all institutions. Ideasquare is on a mission to develop the new era of online education and innovation; as part of OBI-I (Online-based Innovation I) they are planning a track with a brief to develop a commercially viable supersonic plane with a kick-off in late 2016 or early 2017. knowledgetransfer.web.cern.ch/ideasquare/ about
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PORTO DESIGN FACTORY 2015 was a year of consolidation for PDF in terms of ensuring continuity of funding from corporate sponsors, infrastructure (finalizing the first iteration of PDF environment), people (first PDF alumni joined as teaching assistants on the courses), and defining the rules for engagement for PDF. In addition to having local courses, PDF is involved also with Aalto PDP (12 students, 1 sponsor from Porto) and ME310 (5 projects in total, 4 of the sponsors come from Porto). Plans for 2016 include
finding new ways to leverage public and private funding possibilities, building research around the PDF, running different pedagogical experiments, e.g. a 4-month course based on the Rat Relay pilot, and a course that brings local creative and music industries together with PDF, and redesigning the PDF space during summer 2016. portal.ipp.pt/portodesignfactory.aspx
DESIGN FACTORY KOREA Recent developments in DFK include preparing for the 2nd iteration of Capstone course projects starting in March 2016. Sponsor recruitment discussions are on-going with LG Electronics, Allianz, Cisco Korea and IBM. From January 2016 Underwood International College (under which DFK is) has had a new dean, which will lead to developments in formal management of DFK with a new director to be appointed. DFK Protoshop in a new separate building was opened. It is a dedicated
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space for prototyping activities. Two courses in Techno-Art Division are integrating new elements of tangible prototypes into the courses with the help of the protoshop. A joint project with DF Melbourne took place in January 2016 with DFK students travelling to Melbourne to complete a 7-day project with Cisco Australia. dfk.yonsei.ac.kr
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PHILAU NEXUS DESIGN FACTORY Philadelphia University is planning to merge with Thomas Jefferson University, a local health sciences school with a large hospital system. After the September 2015 launch of the PNDF space, it is hosting Industrial Design grad students and PNDF PDP-students. In addition it is used a lot for co-creational activities with industry partners and guest speakers and lectures. Nexus Maximus 2016
will have the whole university participating, and students will get credits from the project. PhilaU welcomes the whole network to become involved to make Nexus Maximus a global event. www.philau.edu Picture by Gary Schempp Photography
FRISIAN DESIGN FACTORY Recently FDF has developed its Bachelor-level minor, finished 3 industry projects and organized 8-hour “pressure cookers�. These are events with companies and students working on specific themes (water, textiles, hospitality, smart sustainability, city labs) to find problems and answers to questions from industry. FDF has also organized smaller workshops with colleagues from other departments. After the official launch on 11.11.2015 a lot of people (from e.g. local government, companies and academia) have positively responded to FDF, which has helped to gain momentum in Leeuwarden. FDF people have been invited to meetings with companies and to funding
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calls as well as Eric Voigt the rainmaker of FDF has been invited to discussions of the 4-year strategic plan of Friesland province. Plans for the next semester include 6 teams and projects in FDF (doubling the numbers from previous year), and continuing to organize the pressure cookers with industry. FDF is also planning a special project with Creative Industry in the North (Netherlands) in order to examine what the creative industries actually are in the region, and what their approach to design thinking is. FDF alumni are creating the new DFGN.org website. www.frisiandesignfactory.nl
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PACE UNIVERSITY Recent developments in PACE include the start of monthly breakfasts with industry, first of which was held in February 2016 with Microsoft. Project-based courses have been developed on both campuses, on NYC and Westchester, after two professors participated in the DF Bootcamp in 2015. PACE is planning to launch a DF in the fall
RTU DESIGN FACTORY
of 2016. Mobility between ADF and PACE includes students from New York participating in PDP and ADF staff hosting a workshop in PACE on Design Factory ways of working in Sept 2015. www.pace.edu/seidenberg/
Recent developments in RTU include the renovation of the 500m2 extension. The official launch of RTU DF will take place after the renovation is completed. In 2015 RTU DF has been supporting scientific research and study courses using design methodology, which is new to the university. Design Factory is succeeding in changing the mindset in RTU. Staff and guests are increasingly coming over to RTU DF and it has become a point of attraction in the university. RTU DF is expanding also in the number of staff and to support this, they are sending new members to DF Bootcamp 2016. www.rtudesignfactory.com
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2015 has been a great activity-filled year. 2016 will be even more fruitful. Join in on the action. Find us at dfgn.org
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