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Memories and experiences make a piece of jewellery important for a woman
15.01.2013 Women own and wear jewellery for the sake of others. Through their use of jewellery, women indicate belonging to a certain group, such as family or persons with a similar worldview or values. Jewellery is important for women, as it is associated with a number of significant memories and personal experiences.
Design games make users part of product and service design
14.08.2012 Along with professional designers, companies and service providers have a growing interest in involving users in the design of products and services. Play-like methods are utilised in joint ideation sessions.
Floating Eco Cities Combine Green Building with Finnish Shipbuilding Expertise
29.02.2012 The Finnish shipbuilding industry may become a future expert in building ecological cities.
Interdisciplinary thinker Samuel Weber lectured about politics, poetics and the media at School of Art and Design
19.12.2011 Samuel Weber, a leading American thinker across the disciplines of literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, gave three open lectures at TaiK on 13-16 December.
From Disposable to Sustainable
01.12.2011 Kirsi Niinimäki’s study shows that environmentally friendly design affects consumption behaviour.
Leena Valkeapää examines in her dissertation the culture and the way of life of the Reindeer Sami
25.10.2011 “All this is my home / these fjords rivers lakes / this cold this sunshine these storms” (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, 1979)
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