Welcome to the Aalto Digi Breakfast on “Designing for Future Life – Strategies for multidisciplinary design for digital communication, entertainment and education”!
5 June at 8:00-9:30 at Aalto Design Factory, Betonimiehenkuja 5C, Otaniemi, Espoo. Breakfast served at 7:45 o’clock.
Please register no later than Monday 2 June at https://www.webropolsurveys.com/S/317623B163D8DD2B.par and forward this invitation to your interested colleagues, too.
This is a discussion event including speakers such as Lasse Seppänen (CEO of PlayRaven), Forrest Oliphant (Partner at NoFlo team, CA), Teemu Leinonen (Professor at Aalto ARTS), Philip Dean (Professor at Aalto ARTS, chairman of the event), and several others. Details of the event at http://www.aalto.fi/en/research/platforms/digi/designing_for_future_life/
The Digi Breakfasts are arranged by the Digi Platform which is Aalto’s new means of collaboration in the field of ICT and digitalisation, to maximize Aalto’s internal synergies in a non-exclusive manner, and to increase Aalto’s external visibility. See the list of forthcoming events at http://www.aalto.fi/en/research/platforms/digi/news
About the speakers and their presentations
Lasse Seppänen, CEO of PlayRaven, represents the entertainment sector of our agenda. PlayRaven http://www.playraven.com is an innovative strategy games studio which was recently one of the successes at SLUSH, gaining 1.7m€ for their game product development, see more at http://m.iltalehti.fi/digi/2014012217961101_du.shtml (in Finnish). Lasse is an alumni of Aalto’s Media Lab and a veteran game industry executive best known as Remedy’s Executive Producer on Alan Wake.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/lasse-sepp%C3%A4nen/0/13/833
Forrest Oliphant is an interactive designer and a graduate of the Media LabHelsinki, Aalto ARTS. In his MA thesis project Forrest developed a hackable web app framework and a flow-based programming environment for children (and other artists). His Meemoo framework was found from the GitHub by the NoFlo-team developing flow-based programming helping software developers to organize large application, especially when modifying large data sets. Currently Forrest is a partner in the NoFlo team. In September 2013 the NoFlo project was successfully funded and raised more than 100 000 USD from more than 1000 backers. The NoFlo team is located in California, Berlin and Helsinki. http://www.forresto.com/
Professor Teemu Leinonen, Vice Dean of Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture, will introduce the theme of future of learning in digital society. Teemu’s field of research is New Media, especially related to applications, solutions and services of e-learning, collaborative learning, collaborative group work and creative work. https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_leinonen
Members of the Arki research group at Aalto’s Media Lab will introduce some key themes from their ‘digitisation of (everyday) life’ projects. The focus of Arki is in the co-evolution of digital media technology and the practices of everyday life, with a design perspective. http://medialab.aalto.fi/research/research-groups/arki-research-group/
Philip Dean is Professor of New Media Management and Head of the Department of Media at Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design & Architecture, and also Director of Aalto Media Factory. Philip will chair the event.
https://people.aalto.fi/index.html#philip_dean
About the Digi platform
Digitalization is having a tremendous effect in today’s and tomorrow’s industries, economics and society at large. Digitalization is a key strong area at Aalto University: ICT, media, computation and modelling have been identified as areas of strong expertise in Aalto’s RAE 2009 evaluation. There are about 80 professors at Aalto directly focused on ICT and media, and another 80 are in fields strongly related to digitalization. Topics include, but are not limited to: computer science, media, computational sciences, networks, communications, signal processing, automation, mechatronics, games, information and service economy, and so on. Joining forces across Aalto we can achieve a significant impact in several fields.
See more at http://www.aalto.fi/en/research/platforms/digi/
More information from: ella.bingham@aalto.fi, samuel.kaski@aalto.fi (Digi Platform), philip.dean@aalto.fi (Designing for future life), mauri.airila@aalto.fi (Aalto’s Platforms).
Welcome!
Mauri Airila
Professor, Assoc. VP