News and Timely Things
MARCH 2012
New York City will see this spring a series of events called (Post)Material - Design in the 21st Century, where we curate and produce discussions and workshop together with our Q&A studio partners. The series is part of the New Finnish Design CITY program, organized by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York anf Consulate General of Finland in New York.
FEBRUARY 2012
We are rolling our woollen and warm sleeves up to run a series of innovation workshops with a major Scandinavian beverages and spirits company to rethink and reinvent their service and product offering.
Additionally, we publish a report New Visions for Food that provides an overview into the future of farming, manufacturing, selling, preparing and eating food - this is tasty!
JANUARY 2012
Happy 2015! Oh, wait 2013! Oh, wait, it's just 2012. Happy that anyways!
This one is expectedly going to get busy. Just starting the year with a broad spectrum of new work. We recently won a major innovation account for a major Scandinavian company, so January goes nicely by while identifying grand opportunities to create new value for people through a portfolio of new products, services and communications.
Also, we will host a seminar titled Designia Maailmalle at the Design Forum Finland on January 31st, where we publish the report suggesting future directions for Finnish design exports and events in the US market.
NOVEMBER 2011
Future of design, oh so bright! We delved into the future of Finnish design and identified emerging opportunities for Finnish design companies and designers to broaden their international horizons and better collaborate and cooperate for bolder global projects. You can find the report (in Finnish) from here.
SEPTEMBER 2011
We just moved to a new studio in Helsinki - called Q&A - together with our friends OK Do, Pro Toto and designer Lauri Johansson. Happy-busy times!
JUNE 2011
We've been busy with exploring the history, presence and future of urban food culture in Helsinki together with the Helsinki Design Lab team (truly exciting!) as well as (almost) featured as keynote speakers at the PDMA Conference on Social Product Development and Co-Creation (which we unfortunately had to cancel last minute for family reasons).
But that's not all! We are in the works to set up an office in Helsinki together with our dear friends at OK-Do and few other brilliant Helsinki based thinkers and doers. The future-oriented studio will be located in the heart of Helsinki on Iso Roobertinkatu, expect an opening ceremony in August!
MAY 2011
Wevolve spends the May in NYC. Connecting dots with local fav partners and doing field research around social innovation & urban food culture. In addition to frivolous socializing Stateside, we produced an ethnographic fieldguide for Helsinki Design Lab for the week-long Synergize Finland studios they were producing in late May.
APRIL 2011
We are just about to publish the Future of Learning report from the collaboration with Digital Democracy - and planning some interesting new work!
MARCH 2011
We have set up the practice in Helsinki as the Finnish scene seems to be ripe and ready for positive change! These are truly fascinating times.
FEBRUARY 2011
Speaking at New York School of Visual Arts about Creating Radically Better Futures. The presentation is available here and also later with video on iTunes University.
JANUARY 2011
Excited about the new visual identity for Wevolve (thanks to Kokoro & Moi!). We are also working with a project on future of learning for Digital Democrary.
DECEMBER 2010
Working on Future Directions for Better Cities, around World Design Capital 2012 Helsinki themes & celebrating happy Yule timez!
OCTOBER 2010
We will be talking about Radical Innovation and Systemic Change at the NYC Designers for Social Change Meetup on October 26th - you're welcome to join the conversation!
New website now in beta... Visual identity still under construction but we are aiming to launch the site officially in December/January.
SEPTEMBER 2010
We are currently researching Urban Futures from multidisciplinary viewpoints, and welcome you to join the exploration!