Helsinki Design Week is all about parties, encounters and the exchange of ideas! Later on in the afternoon, we will delve into the latest ideas of the next generation of designers, the students of Aalto University. Raphael Gielgen visits more than companies a year. Whilst traveling around the globe, the whole world is his laboratory and the future his research area.
He meets protagonists from the near and distant future by visiting big companies and start-ups as well as leading universities. His insights and experiences are shown in his Β»PanoramaΒ« β a map for trends and patterns of a new world full of hackers and makers. There has been a lot of discussion about student internships in the field of design recently. Internship can be the first job in the field for many, and the experiences gained from it shape the view of the field.
Grafia wants to help both interns and employers and drew up ethical guidelines for student internships. The instructions include things that both parties should take into account when making the internship contract and during the internship. Successful training benefits both parties. Failed neither. The exhibition incorporates varied materials and covers diverse subject matter ranging from sustainability, craft, and more-than-human design to heritage, perception, territoriality, and multi-sensory experiences.
Only change is certain, and so on. Fortunately, designers are good at taking advantage of rapidly changing conditions. Multidisciplinary creative thinking, careful research work and open discussion are needed to solve pressing problems and crises.
Sense of joy should not be overlooked in design discussions! Joy is often forgotten in the design discussion. Inventing something new, learning by experimenting and generating ideas β at its best, all of that is genuinely fun. In the future, we need a more multi-vocal discussion for the design fields as well. As part of Imagine everyday! The discussion is about learning through play, the importance of play in design and how the new Tactic Minihome home play set designed by Eero Aarnio came to be.
