Collective Design

The Design Management Institute of USA is the world’s most respected organisation for design management. The annual European DMI conference in Helsinki gathers together the world’s premier design leaders and experts. The conference language is English.

Collaboration is design’s competitive advantage in today’s world.  Together with a laser focus on the user as part of a group or an individual - design leads solutions to an inclusive, integrated and inspiring process that transforms experiences for a better life.  From the large to the small, visible to the invisible, group to the individual, Collective Design will surface and reveal the inner most workings in infrastructure, policy, planning, research, organization, innovation and management that occurs behind the scenes and on the front lines of design and business.  What is the role of design leadership in this new world of collective design?

Day One: society / community / organization

Who drives policy? What systems are in place to serve communities? How are multi-disciplinary,  open source processes engaging in collaborative design?  Who are the unexpected designers and what role do they play behind the scenes?

Day Two: citizen / consumer / designer

How do we enable citizens to participate in design?
How are experiences and services delivered to the end-user? How do we connect to the hearts and minds of the individuals? How does design deliver on the bigger promise?

Registration here. 

Co-Chairs:

Jaana Beidler, Sr. Color and Material Design Manager, NOKIA
Marco Steinberg, Strategic Design Director, Finnish Innovation Fund
Karen Reuther, President, Design Management Institute

More information

Patricia Olshan
Program Mangager DMI
Tel. +617-338-6380
polshan@dmi.org