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Wonderful documentary and docu-series, something to lift the spirits. 

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Reflections on the Fields of Systems Change

Beautiful and important read! Access their report here.

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Another blog post for Aalto Online Learning, which was also published on aalto.fi. 

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Together with Tomi Kauppinen, we wrote an article on online learning. It addresses teachers at Aalto University, but might be a good read for anyone.

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Educational Tools for Sustainable Development

 Photo from snowflakeeducation.com

I attended the Climate University seminar at Aalto University on March 3 and learned about the educational board games by snowflakeeducation.com that invite the players to learn about sustainability, climate change and sustainable development topics in a fun but effective way. We tested the games ClimeOut and Dilemma and very super surprised by their quality and fun factor.

Climate University is a fantastic initiative through which several free online courses on climate change, systems change, sustainability and finding solutions to these topics are published.

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Planet-centric design toolkit

Graphic from planetcentricdesign.com 

 Last week I attended a masterclass at Aalto University by Anton Schubert. He introduced planet-centric design and a relating toolkit that was developed to elevate user-centric design to an environmentally responsible level. The toolkit contains several canvases that teams can freely use and work with to raise their awareness and create more planet-centric products and services.  The website including the toolkit (open-source) here: planetcentricdesign.com

Also check out Anton’s summary on planet-centric design from the masterclass. 

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How do you feel today? No words? Take a look at the feelingswheel.com.

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My Master of Arts thesis on Designing for an increased awareness of the power of books and reading for adults in Nairobi

You can access my master thesis, including a small prototype, here.

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The final and interactive New Global report

During the last months, I worked with the New Global team, including researchers and creatives, to create the final online report of the New Global research and innovation initiative. You can see the results here. My work included project management for delivering the report, as well as working together with the team to establish an appealing concept, content, and viewing experience. Thanks to everyone for great teamwork and such a pleasing result! <3

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Learning Experience Design course by Shapers

This four-week course on Learning Experience Design was quite an interesting journey. We learned about what makes for great (learning) experiences and how we can effectively design them. The Learning Experience Design Canvas by Shapers played a key role and it really snythesizes to what to pay attention to. You can get it here. Thanks to Shapers for the ride, and to the next rounds of this young online course!

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I will join ThinkAfrica’s Research Stories event tomorrow by presenting my Master thesis research in the form of a poster. ThinkAfricaWeek is taking place this whole week: www.thinkafrica.fi

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Suomi Areena 2019 in Pori. I designed the presentation slides for New Global and their Suomi Areena partners.

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I created this animation and other related visual content for New Global who is partnering with Felm and The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation to speak at Suomi Areena this July. The topic of discussion will be how we need to change what we measure when we assess our global and local economy’s success. FB event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/332906474275785