Design Biotop is an experiential workshop and discussion event that explores the problem solving and trans-disciplinary nature of design, and promotes a design thinking mindset to a country that is searching for design opportunity perspectives and its impact on economic growth. Its aim is to underline the connections between the design mindset, creative processes, education and decision making.

Information designer Juuso Koponen is a visiting lecturer at Aalto University and other Finnish universities, and blogs about infographics and visualization atInformaatiomuotoilu.fi. Besides teaching and working on client projects he also organizes the annual Visualizing Knowledge Conference in Helsinki and is writing a book about information design. His data visualization workshops have been hosted in Helsinki, Tampere, Lahti and Amsterdam.

Design Biotop is an experiential workshop and discussion event that explores the problem solving and trans-disciplinary nature of design, and promotes a design thinking mindset to a country that is searching for design opportunity perspectives and its impact on economic growth. Its aim is to underline the connections between the design mindset, creative processes, education and decision making.

Marco Steinberg is Founder of Snowcone & Haystack, Finland, a strategic design practice focused on helping governments and leaders innovate.

Marco is former Director of Strategic Design at the Finnish Innovation Fund, where he launched a portfolio of initiatives to address the acute need for strategic improvement in the public sector.

Marco believes that that there is a solution to the complex challenges that governments, societies and environments face. There is a need to shift from trying to improve the efficiency of what was to redesigning what could be. His passion is in helping leaders find the pathway to these strategic improvements.

In his other responsibilities, Marco is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Museum of Finnish Architecture  & serves as advisor to many organizations. His previous experience includes: Professor at the Harvard Design School (1999-2009); advising governments on SME & design funding strategies; and running his own design & architecture practice.

Design Biotop is an experiential workshop and discussion event that explores the problem solving and trans-disciplinary nature of design, and promotes a design thinking mindset to a country that is searching for design opportunity perspectives and its impact on economic growth. Its aim is to underline the connections between the design mindset, creative processes, education and decision making.

Heikki Rajasalo is a researcher and a visiting lecturer at Aalto University and at several other Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland. He is specialized in Design Management and Design Governance.

Typically companies do not seem to have a firm grasp on how design could impact their business. Heikki believes that businesses taking a step towards design and designers taking a step towards measurable metrics would enable design to be used strategically in an organization. The idea is to give tools for businesses to talk design and tools for designers to talk business

Design Biotop is an experiential workshop and discussion event that explores the problem solving and trans-disciplinary nature of design, and promotes a design thinking mindset to a country that is searching for design opportunity perspectives and its impact on economic growth. Its aim is to underline the connections between the design mindset, creative processes, education and decision making.

Lauri Repokari was a part of Mechanical engineering group at Stanford University and was elected twice as consulting professor.  His education and career is amazing and includes leading several R&D student projects for international companies at the DBM program. Lauri Repokari has a passion to develop multicultural and multidisciplinary collaborations in product development. This work consists of R&D teaching and coaching of international student groups and management of research activities with universities and international companies across the globe. Lauri has a particular expertise in understanding design thinking methods and has published more than 30 international review publications in conferences and journals, including human-computer interaction, cognitive ergonomics/requirements, small display user, interfaces and usability, and design collaboration in product development amongst many other subjects.

The workshop was part of DESIGN BIOTOP event.

Design Biotop is an experiential workshop and discussion event that explores the problem solving and trans-disciplinary nature of design, and promotes a design thinking mindset to a country that is searching for design opportunity perspectives and its impact on economic growth. Its aim is to underline the connections between the design mindset, creative processes, education and decision making.

Professor Kalevi Ekman’s research area is integrated product development. His courses at Aalto Design Factory are bringing hundreds of students from Aalto University schools of design, engineering and business together to work on project development challenges in multi-disciplinary teams. He is in charge of PDP – Product Development Project -course that connects Master level curriculum, renowned successful companies, and designers to work closely together.

Kalevi Ekman is the director of Aalto Design Factory.

Design Biotop is an experiential workshop and discussion event that explores the problem solving and trans-disciplinary nature of design, and promotes a design thinking mindset to a country that is searching for design opportunity perspectives and its impact on economic growth. Its aim is to underline the connections between the design mindset, creative processes, education and decision making.

Professor Kalevi Ekman’s research area is integrated product development. His courses at Aalto Design Factory are bringing hundreds of students from Aalto University schools of design, engineering and business together to work on project development challenges in multi-disciplinary teams. He is in charge of PDP – Product Development Project -course that connects Master level curriculum, renowned successful companies, and designers to work closely together.

Kalevi Ekman is the director of Aalto Design Factory.

Zach Shigeto Saginaw entered the world of music when he was still in diapers – his father was a passionate vinyl collector, particularly the various styles of jazz music. And probably that’s one of the reasons his son Zach headed for drums at an early age. For most of his youth, he played in various bands in his home, Detroit environment, and later on in New York, where he studied jazz. As a student, he spent several years in London – and on the island he caught the enthusiasm for electronic music. This new obsession has borne fruit when he was adopted by the Ghostly International label – where he released his debut album Full Circle.

The genre in which Shigeto moves is quite difficult to define: some define it as abstract hip hop, but this is really too limited a definition. He could be easily placed among the ambient, trip hop and similar artists – but nevertheless Shigeto is foremost an innovative and extremely fresh artist. Last year he released his third album, No Better Time than Now which had a great success on the charts of the best in 2013.

Borja Močnik a.k.a DJ Borka is a DJ, producer, editor, event organizer from Ljubljana. He is spinning records for more then 10 years now. A couple of years ago (together with Bakto & Woo-D) they started a funk night Good Foot, whose most known project is Tetkine radosti, a mix collage of old (mostly 60s & 70s) yugoslav music – from beat music and funk rock to jazz and schlager. Borka used to be part of rap group from Ljubljana – Ironic Tronic. Together with DJ Bakto and Marjan Stanič they form a music group Jimmy Barka Experience. In 2012 he released his debut album – What Sticks on RX:TX records.

Shigeto was already featured on the ArtistTalk portal. We recorded a casual and relaxed conversation with him when he was playing live at TodaysArt festival in The Hague in September 2012. We talked about decent skateboarding and how arms can but shouldn’t be broken, about the importance of live and the joys of life.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7QcdFbh11w

Jan Vormann has in a project, urban spatial intervention Dispatchwork, created a real international platform, which through play and playfulness through participation creates a subtle manifestation of the fusion of art and everyday life, through which the artist intervenes in urban greyness of everyday life. Plastic cubes as a material with which Vormann built in gaps, cracks and holes in the urban landscape, not only embodied game, the first children’s contact with the architecture, but also the object of popular culture, with its distinctive coloring becomes critical commentary, satire of complex urban structures in the city. Work has become a global phenomenon, and Dispatchwork an international network, to which we invited everyone.

Young German artist Jan Vormann quickly earned a reputation in the art world for his kinetic sculptures and installations and in recent years particularly with his project Dispatchwork, an intervention in the public space, with which he in a witty way repairs, patches and builds in holes with material of popular culture – with well known plastic construction pieces Lego. It is not superfluous information that Vormann studied monumental art and restoration. With an extremely successful project he has been for three years traveling around the world and repaired old buildings and monuments , including the Great Wall of China and buildings in Venice. Vormann in the last six years has  exhibited worldwide in galleries in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona , Linz, Taipei, Atlanta, New York , St . Petersburg , Belgrade, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Rome, Tehran, Amsterdam and elsewhere. Vormann is a resident of an international residency project TRIBE at Sonica.

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That sound sculpture designed by the french visual and sound artist Cecile Babiole , to render the sound of electricity audible and spread it over to the ambient space. The Artist Talk provides furthermore insight into a short Performance by Cecile Babiole. Bzzz! serves as a commentary on the history of technology and a tribute to unprocessed, unassembled analog sound: the raw sound of electricity.

Régine Debatty is a writer, curator and critic, founder of we-make-money-not-art.com.

In this interview she talks about her talk at the TRIBE symposium, surveillance and her understanding of the term transitory.