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2011
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Christmas party for Komitu’s Youth Center
Komitu Architects, a collective that sprung out of the Aalto University courses City in Crisis and Public Buildings – Cambodia have been awarded with grants from Teekkaritoiminnan Edistämisrahasto and Aalto University International Relations for their project of building a youth center in Phnom Phen, Cambodia. This was made possible by the co-operation with the two [...]
Kallio Kunsthalle – an art gallery and a meeting place for the homeless
When Petri, a Finnish artist and PhD student of Aalto University, moved to an apartment in Kallio he discovered that one of his neighbors was an association called Elämäntapaliitto, which was running Elokolo, a place for people, who are isolated from the society or otherwise struggling. In a spur of a moment Petri decided to [...]
10 tactics for turning information into action
Wednesday November 2nd a handful of people got together at Design Factory to see the film “10 Tactics for turning information into action” and have a chat with Ilpo Kiiskinen, Head of Communications, Amnesty International Finnish Section. 10 Tactics –documentary was made in 2009, and looking at it now afterwards some of its actions can [...]
Living in multiple worlds
Ignacio González Nappa, Director of Development for Latin America & Caribbean at Un Techo para mi País from Uruguay lives in multiple worlds. His work as Co-Head of the International Expansion Team of Un Techo para mi País takes him all around the world. On one sunny Sunday afternoon in the end of May his [...]
Woke up in Africa – Stories with Pamoja
Pamoja Cleantech is a start-up enabling tech transfer for clean energy technologies in East Africa to excite social-economic development and climate change mitigation. During this spring Irena (Aalto University , Finland) and John, Federico, Goncal and Mehil (KTH, Sweden) will spend few months in Uganda doing research related to their masters thesis made together with [...]
Technology Design: acknowledging the intertwined relationship between technology and values
Date: 14 April 2011 Time: 17h00-18h30 Location: Design Factory, The Studio Room, Betonimiehenkuja 5, Otaniemi, Espoo Aalto Social Impact invites you to a discussion with Technology Designer and Researcher Risto Sarvas. “In designing, planning, and building technology we make value-based decisions. Although seldom discussed in these terms, we embed values into the technology through our [...]
Global Design Village
On Wednesday 6.4 2011 Aalto Social Impact arranged discussion with Global Design Village, at Aalto Venture Garage, about how to save lives through design. Simon Doran, Chairman and Co-Founder of Global Design Village and Erik Brunskill, Managing Director and Co-Founder, gave a presentation on what Global Design Village is and how they are to launch [...]
Paving the way for crowdfunding in Finland
Aalto Social Impact hosted an event on March 23 at Aalto University School of Economics to discuss Hub Helsinki’s crowdfunding project and the application of the method to further social innovations in Finland. After ASI President Maiju Airosmaa’s ASI overview, we enjoyed the presentation of Anne Raudaskoski who is the Managing Director of Hub Helsinki. [...]
Onnistamo 2011
onnistamo2011.org 11-13.2 2011 Hub Helsinki and Suomen Yhteiskunnallisten Yrittäjien yhdistys ry arranged an event for social innovators. It took place at Botta in Helsinki and Hanasaari cultural center in Espoo. The goal was to bring together actors in the scene of social change in Finland and see what are the needs for social entrepreneurship. Friday’s [...]
