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Call for Papers: Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems -konferenssi, 11.–12.6.2015 Turussa

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Post from Finland Futures Research Centre: http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/ffrc/ajankohtaista/uutiset/Sivut/cfp_conference2015.aspx

Call for Papers, Posters and Performances:

FUTURES STUDIES TACKLING WICKED PROBLEMS:
Where Futures Research, Education and Action Meet

11–12 June 2015, Turku, Finland

The 17th International Futures Conference of the Finland Futures Research Centre and the Finland Futures Academy, University of Turku
“Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems” is an international forum for the philosophies, methods, ideas and concrete examples to find out what is going on in the field of futures research, education and action. The aim is to harness the views of preferable futures and methods for reaching them. The conference will work collaboratively discussing research, initiatives and projects to gather various views and compose ideas to face future challenges.
The conference committee welcomes papers, posters and performances on following themes:
  • Philosophy of Futures Studies
  • Methodologies
  • Futures Education and Learning
  • Studies on Futures Research
  • Evolving Identity of Futures Research
  • Futures Movement and New Creative Cultures
Conference program will consist of keynote lectures, parallel sessions, panel discussions and performances. Our aim is to generate multidisciplinary, lively and productive discussions, as well as promote networking between people from different backgrounds. In this conference the tradition meets new ways of participation: academia meeting activism and experience meeting enthusiasm. We invite researchers, activists, artists, leaders and decision-makers to share and elaborate ideas how to construct the future together, discover opportunities and solve wicked problems.

The abstract submission is now open!

See conference website and guidelines for abstract submission: www.futuresconference.fi/2015. A selection of papers will be published afterwards in the conference publication.
Deadline for the abstracts: January 30, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: March 6, 2015
Early Bird registration ends: March 31, 2015​
We look forward to seeing you in Turku next summer, June 2015!

Organisers:

Conference office:

Finland Futures Research Centre
Turku School of Economics, University of Turku

Finnish Innovations and Technologies in Schools. A Guide towards New Ecosystems of Learning -kirjan julkaisutilaisuus 28.10.2014

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Finnish Innovations and Technologies in Schools. A Guide towards New
Ecosystems of Learning -kirjan julkaisutilaisuus
Tiistai 28.10.2014 klo 16.30
Seminaarihuone 302, Siltavuorenpenger 3A, Helsingin yliopisto

Tilaisuus on ilmainen, mutta pyydämme ilmoittautumaan:
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/54699/lomake.html

Tervetuloa Finnish Innovations and Technologies in Schools. A Guide
towards New Ecosystems of Learning -kirjan julkaisutilaisuuteen
tiistaina 28.10.2014 Helsingin yliopistolle.

Teos tarjoaa erilaisia näkökulmia siitä, miten suomalainen
koulutusjärjestelmä kehittää oppilaiden 2000-luvun taitoja.
Suomalaisessa järjestelmässä pyritään kestävään koulutukseen yhteyksiä
luomalla ja olemalla avoimia muutoksille. Koulutusjärjestelmän
vertauskuvana käytetäänkin ekosysteemiä.

Kirjassa esitellään opetussuunnitelman kehitystyötä ja kuinka joustava
opetussuunnitelma voi menestyä ilman oppilasarvioinnin tuottamia
paineita. Teoksessa tutustutaan tutkijoiden, opettajien, rehtoreiden,
julkisen sektorin ja liike-elämän edustajien yhteistyöhön ja sen
tuottamaan tietoon. Kirjoittajat erittelevät tapoja, joilla
teknologiaa on integroitu koulun arjessa rikkoen formaalin ja
informaalin oppimisen rajoja. Artikkeleissa pohditaan 2000-luvun
taitoja ja vaatimuksia tiedonmuodostuksessa, yhteistyössä,
verkostoitumisessa ja digitaalisessa lukutaidossa. Kirjassa nähdään
kuinka digitaalisen tarinankerronnan ja pelien avulla voidaan yhdistää
iloa, motivaatiota ja oppimista. Teoksen vahva sanoma on, että
yhteistyön ja verkostoitumisen avulla voidaan luoda koulutuksen
ekosysteemi, joka tukee erilaisia oppijoita.

Lisätietoja:
http://www.cicero.fi/recent-news/items/finnish-innovations-and-technologies-in-schools-a-guide-towards-new-ecosystems-of-learning-kirjan-julkaisutilaisuus.html

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Book Launch: Finnish Innovations and Technologies in Schools. A Guide
towards New Ecosystems of Learning

Tuesday 28 October 2014 at 16.30
Room 302, Siltavuorenpenger 3A, University of Helsinki

The event is free of charge, but please register:
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/54699/lomake.html

Welcome to the book launch of Finnish Innovations and Technologies in
Schools. A Guide towards New Ecosystems of Learning at University of
Helsinki

The book combines several perspectives on the steps the Finnish
educational system has taken to provide students with the skills and
competences needed for living in today’s society and in the future.
The ecosystem is used as a metaphor for the educational system. The
Finnish system aims to achieve sustainable education by ensuring that
the system is simultaneously interconnected and open to transformations.

The book describes how a flexible curriculum system is succeeding
without the pressures of high-stake testing. It also illustrates how
the ongoing curriculum reform of the basic education is working. The
book brings together knowledge gained in schools through the
cooperation of researchers, teachers, school principals, the public
sector, and private companies. The book presents case studies of
technology integration aimed at crossing boundaries in formal and
informal learning settings, locally and globally. The contributors
address 21st-century needs and requirements through learner-driven
knowledge creation, collaboration, networking, and digital literacies.
It opens new scenarios of how to apply digital storytelling and games
connecting fun, motivation, and learning. The strong message is that,
through collaboration and networking, we can create an educational
ecosystem that supports different learners.

More information:
http://www.cicero.fi/recent-news/items/book-launch-finnish-innovations-and-technologies-in-schools-28-oct-2014.html

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CICERO Learning
University of Helsinki
P.O.Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 5 A)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

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The Cloud of Urban Influencers: How People-to-People (digital) interaction and a bunch of Mayors’ on tour are empowering Cities

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”Last but not least, cities, regardless of their size are working alone or joining new collaborative platforms of influence with their counterparts, linking the domestic agendas of governance with the universal challenges of massive urbanization, sustainability, economic growth and security, opening the door for the reinforcement of an international Urban Agenda and promoting the rise of new international urban-based ‘currencies’ as innovation, good reputation, livability, creativity and other valuable intangible assets.”

Pablo Sánchez Chillón / Urban & Public Affairs's avatarPablo Sanchez Chillon

THE CITIES’ DIPLOMACY SERIES (2).-
URBAN 360º, the blog edited by Pablo Sánchez Chillón, Urban Planning Lawyer, International Speaker, Strategy and Public Affairs Advisor and Urban Advocate. Pablo is Co-founder of Eolexcitylab and Sánchez Chillón, Urban Innovation Advocates, Consultants & Lawyers (Spain)

thedigitalembassyIn the first post of this Urban Diplomacy Series I have tried to focus on the content, extent and insights of the global performance of a true Urban Diplomacy by Cities, explaining how the mix of influence, reputation and collective efforts of mayors, advisors, private companies and individuals are contributing to the opening of an international Urban Agenda and a new framework for global governance, in which Cities and urban issues are performing a principal role.

By remarking the experience of some leading cities as Barcelona, Copenhagen or Medellin, their focus on internationalization and the use of storytelling techniques and transmedia languages to broaden their global reputation and influence…

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Book of the Day: How Sharing, Localism, and Connectedness are Creating a New Social Design?

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“A new culture of sharing is emerging. We are increasingly sharing goods, places, services, and information. It is creating social value and community. In this way, shareability is becoming a valued quality that drives new business practices, community cooperatives, and new forms of “collaborative consumption.” The open source movement and the emerging open design practice reflect the same mentality. Centred around collaboration and exchange, sharing schemes are often linked to mobile and Internet technologies.

The sustainist design challenge is as follows: What would happen if “shareability” would be taken as a design criterion? How might we bring shareable assets into the design process for products, services, environments and situations? What might we (re)design to encourage more sharing and open exchange?””

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-how-sharing-localism-and-connectedness-are-creating-a-new-social-design/2014/09/15

Value Proposition Design for Urban Services!?

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Tired of endless text? Value Proposition Design simplifies complex ideas into quickly readable illustrations with only the most practical, important details. The result? You’ll learn more, in less time, and have fun along the way.

Urban Mill Open Innovation Platform Orchestration Model

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Urban Mill Orchestration model was presented and discussed at ”Aalto – Nonaka Workshop: Ba & Flow in Regional Innovation Ecosystems” at Design Factory 22.8.2014.

Workshop was organized by EUE programme members in collaboration with Professor Ikurijo Nonaka and CKIR at Aalto University.  Worksghop introduced e.g. the Energizing Urban Ecosystems EUE Research School concept.

Kari Mikkelä presented their ongoing EUE research. Urban Mill Service Concept properties were reflected within the  ”Value Orchestration Platform for Business and Communities” framework introduced by prof. Kyoichi Jim Kijima.

 

Other topics included:

  • Professor Ikurijo Nonaka: Recent thinking and experiences on Ba & Flow
  • Markku Markkula: Special focus on the Espoo Innovation Garden as a EU forerunner. The ecosystem described and analyzed from different perspectives

Whole programme here:  Aalto-Nonaka WS 22.8.2014 programme

Tingan Tang’s PhD Thesis from Active Life Village: ”Combining User and Context: Living Labs Innovation in Digital Services”

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Tingan Tang from Active Life Village team at Urban Mill presented his PhD thesis 15.8.2014:

”With the continuous advances of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), users’ living contexts and daily life activities are increasingly digitalized. Based on these developments and other enabling factors, an emerging user- and context-driven open innovation approach called ”Living Lab” has recently gained rising popularity and momentum in both academia and industry.

As an emerging and promising innovation approach, many theoretical and empirical insights are needed to understand the dynamics of Living Labs. This thesis focuses on Living Labs innovation in the digital services domain and it addresses three aspects of Living Labs: Concept, Architecture and Methods.

The relative paucity of research on Living Labs advocates an exploratory approach that augments the research status quo with qualitative and quantitative empirical insights. The insights are gained from both a literature review and many years of Living Lab practice experiences from several Living Lab project cases in both academia and industry. The first aspect explores the Living Lab concept. A Living Lab concept framework is proposed by studying the key innovation principles of Living Lab and comparing the Living Lab principles with the corresponding Web 2.0 principles. The second aspect deals with the technical architecture of the Living Lab infrastructure. A ubiquitous Living Lab services platform is proposed and implemented by combining social media and the Web of Things. A common Living Lab technical architecture is generalized based on several Living Lab projects implementation experiences. A Web-based two-layered integration technical framework is proposed to integrate heterogeneous smart devices into business processes, and this framework is evaluated in a real-life elderly care case. The third aspect studies the methods used in Living Lab. A Living Lab process model and methods taxonomy are proposed and evaluated. Two case studies by different Living Lab methods are presented. Finally, a comparison of different Living Lab methods is summarized. The three studied Living Lab aspects are not separated from each other but intertwined in the whole Living Lab context for digital services innovation.

Overall, this thesis advances a better understanding of the Living Labs innovation paradigm.”

Publications included to thesis:

[Publication 1]: Tang, T., Wu, Z., Hämäläinen, M. and Ji, Y.. From Web 2.0 to Living Lab: an Exploration of the Evolved Innovation Principles. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, VOL. 4, NO. 4, pages 379 – 385, November 2012.
[Publication 2]: Tang, T., Wu, Z., Karhu, K., Hämäläinen, M. and Ji, Y.. Internationally Distributed Living Labs and Digital Ecosystems for Fostering Local Innovations in Everyday Life. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, VOL. 4, NO. 1, pages 106 – 115, February 2012.
[Publication 3]: Tang, T., Wu, Z., Hämäläinen, M. and Ji, Y.. Internationally Distributed Digital Ecosystems Infrastructure and Networked Living Labs Approach for Everyday Life Innovation. International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, Submitted, 15 pages, 2014.
[Publication 4]: Wu, Z., Itälä, T., Tang, T., Zhang, C., Ji, Y., Hämäläinen, M. and Liu, Y.. A Web-based two-layered Integration Framework for Smart Devices. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, VOL. 2012, NO. 1, pages 1 – 12, April 2012. doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2012-150 View at Publisher
[Publication 5]: Tang, T. and Hämäläinen, M.. Beyond Open Innovation: the Living Labs way of ICT Innovation. Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, VOL. 3, NO. 4, pages 15 – 23, March 2014.
[Publication 6]: Tang, T. and Hämäläinen, M.. Comparison of two local social media services in Finland and China by social network analysis. International Journal of Social Network Mining, VOL. 1, NO. 2, pages 209 – 224, December 2012.
[Publication 7]: Tang, T., Cheng, C. and Hämäläinen, M.. Everyday Life Sensing by Living Lab approach. Journal of Software, VOL. 9, NO. 6, pages 1545 –1552, June 2014.

Whole: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5741-5

Empower locally, attract globally

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Posted on RYM site by Eelis Rytkönen

The natures of university core functions have evolved drastically since the majority of university facilities have been built. Yet, only a small portion of campuses have been re-engineered to meet the new demands of the network society in the middle of spatial transformation. At the same time, utilization rates and interdisciplinary synergies tend to be low. However, cases such as Design Factory, Urban Mill, Startup Sauna, ADDlab and AaltoHUBs manifest an experimental manner of executing spatial development projects. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze processes and value generation of these five intrinsic interdisciplinary university space development projects on Aalto university campus in Otaniemi.

Empower locally, attract globally

Results

The results propose a community-driven expansion to existing university campus management theories. The cases suggest alternative bottom-up approaches to university campus facilitation in addition to the traditional top-down facilities management and development practices. The conceptual process can be seen as an iterative loop as visualized in Figure 1. The differences are highlighted in Table 1. Moreover, new ways of learning and working seemingly require more agile, systemic, and integrated processes from facilitators in physical, social, and virtual dimensions.

 

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Figure 1. The conceptual iterative nature of the pilot cases

PhaseDifferences

Table 1. Differences between the studied cases.

Effects

The enablers and hindrances that hopefully can help the campus managers in their complexing tasks are listed in Table 2. Common effects for the campuses deriving from this study were identified as: 1. Usability of campuses is enhanced by cross-organizational pop-in places where knowledge is thematically shared through facilitation operators; 2. Valid measures, costs, values and impacts vary in alternative environments compared to traditional institutional settings which is why the measures should be further developed; and 3. Various operational models are needed to create an interdisciplinary community – an agile follow-up project model seems to function for these cases. These notions should fundamentally affect the way in which campuses are managed.

HindrancesAndEnablers

Table 2. Enablers and hindrances of campus managers.

Future Opportunities

We hope these examples encourage university administration, facility management practitioners, university community members and researchers alike to ideate, test, implement and impact their own environments. Another question deriving from this study is how to balance between the traditional top-down and the alternative bottom-up project processes. In an attempt to find it out, another study is under construction comparing these cases with larger and more traditional projects on the same campus: the new ARTS building and Otakaari 1 renovation. After making a synthesis and a typology of these, the resulting typology can hopefully be generalized through comparing the cases with similar projects in other campuses. In the end the contribution is planned to impact both research and practice.

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Keywords

facilitation, facility management, interdisciplinary communities, network society, pilot projects, processes, spatial transformation, University Campus Management,

Participants

Aalto University facilities services

Pilot case staff: ADF, Startup Sauna, Urban Mill, ADDlab, AaltoHUBs

BES research group and YTK: Eelis Rytkönen, Erica Österlund, Suvi Nenonen

 

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Helsinki ranked as 9. in the Future of Urban Mobility 2.0 Study

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Arthur D. Little, the Global Management Consultancy,
launched its “Future of Urban Mobility” lab in 2010 and in
2011 released its first global study highlighting the
mobility challenges cities face on a worldwide basis. This
report introduced the first Arthur D. Little Urban Mobility
Index, which assessed the mobility maturity and
performance of 66 cities worldwide, and triggered high
interest within the mobility industry and in the media on a
global scale.

January 2014 sees Arthur D. Little release the second
version of the “Future of Urban Mobility” study, including
an updated version of the Urban Mobility Index, with an
extended scope of 84 cities worldwide as well as an
extended set of criteria. The index finds most cities are
still badly equipped to cope with the challenges ahead
indicating there is still significant potential for
improvement.

Arthur D. Little highlights what is holding cities back, and,
together with its partner the UITP – the International
Association of Public Transport – identifies three strategic
directions for cities to better shape the future of urban
mobility. The study also describes 25 imperatives to
consider when defining sustainable urban mobility
policies and case studies of cities demonstrating good
practice.

Helsinki ranked as 9. out of 84 worldwide cities

Helsinki: 53.2 points, 9 out of 84 worldwide (ex aequo with
London), 7 out of 19 in Western Europe

The world’s most dense cycle-lane network can be found in
Helsinki, which has a total of 1,000 km of segregated bike
lanes, or 4,678km per thousand square kilometers of city
area. One innovation, the 1.3 km Baana pathway for cyclists
and pedestrians, was used by 320,000 cyclists in one sixmonth
period in 2012. The city also boasts a high penetration
of its HSL Travel Card at 0.9 cards per capita, with the result
that Helsinki has a low concentration of both NO2 and PM10.

Download the whole report here:

2014_ADL_UITP_Future_of_Urban_Mobility_2_0_Full_study