#Engineering + bio-based design + #arts =pathways for broadening interest in & impact of technology. Dr Shirey shared results from helping faculty do this, with students now eg looking into how doctors can be trained to recognize heart issues from heart-beat based music. ASEE

#minatutkin Aalto Design Factory:llä miten tuotekehittäjät ja muotoilijat voivat ajaa muutosta kestävään liiketoimintaan - etteivät hyvät ideat jää vain ideoiksi. #myresearch looks at how designers & developers can work as change agents for sustainable business, turning ideas into reality.

Patterns of high-performing #design teams: Conceptual design: User interactions focused on user cognition, emotions AND behaviour Detail design: Increasingly specific user data w focus on implementation Mediocre teams: focus on user behavior only & fail to move to implementation

What does #radicalcreativity mean?We talked to 54 Aalto University faculty members to hear their take on how it can connect to research&learning, to kickstart a new #research project on strategic support for creative #collaboration. Take a look: aalto.fi/en/news/how-is… Aalto Design Factory

”You need to focus” is often said to get people to stay in their lane - Peter Vesterbacka encourages thinking instead about what you can do so well that it is fan-worthy, not getting stuck in a specific domain/tech. @aaltodf #PDX #productdevelopment Aalto University

Curiosity, courage & cooperation - it takes a balance of strategic risk taking + exploration to innovate. Lars Peter Lindfors Neste uses portfolio thinking to practice this, with 50% developing current business, 40% next generation business & 10% open exploration. #PDX Aalto Design Factory

Managing R&D is managing complexity - many moving parts, uncertainty and it takes a village. Satu Virkkunen from KONE shares how cancelled projects can take on a new, better life in new hands and perspectives - sometimes a bit if distance can be good. Aalto Design Factory #PDX

Markus Mannevaara and Heidi Tulensalo sharing their @WartsilaVoyage lessons learned on impactful rapid #prototyping: make it concrete & vivid, and make sure you keep in mind not just the customer but also who in the organization would take concepts further Aalto Design Factory #PDX @AaltoENG

Early career professionals bring in new ideas to companies, yet often lack networks etc to take these further. #Research w Shannon Gilmartin &Sheppard finds that #innovation can happen in the sidelines,but needs recognition from managers&colleagues to flourish. doi.org/10.1111/caim.1…

The biggest challenge the pandemic brought for #productdevelopment was in dreaming up new initiatives & fostering culture. Lessons learned in scoping & resourcing innovation under uncertainty continue to apply, check out our new #research with Dr. Katja Hölttä-Otto: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Interested in how radical #creativity could be used to co-create better futures? We're joining forces to pilot a new summer school at Aalto Design Factory, free for all Aalto University students and open to anyone. Enrolment now open, check out aalto.fi/en/news/are-yo…

”We’re training #designers as if they’re on Mars - as if there’s no friction or gravity.” Renan Gökyay on the importance of #educating for the realities of #change making at the Design Factory Global Network conference in METU / ODTÜ

We’re looking for a new assistant #professor in product development at Aalto Design Factory - join us in experimenting with new ways to combine research and teaching for impactful development & design practices in technology companies aalto.fi/en/open-positi… #openposition Aalto University

What kind of capabilities are we educating for? Future of work expert Hertta Vuorenmaa shares #research on what capabilities Finnish executives prioritize: self-management, teamwork and being able to leverage ever evolving tools. - @aaltodf #INCREDIT Aalto University

Judging the potential of #ideas is difficult- we don't want to waste resources,but also don't want to shoot down great ideas that just don't fit our existing structures and systems. This is a particularly prominent issue in supporting radical creativity. #research #norddesign2024

Happy to continue working with developing practices and education for co-creation at Aalto Design Factory!