Cities for All Helsinki exhibition 2012
Opening: 21.09 at 12.00 Open: 21-30.09 at 8.00-21.00 Viru Centre´s atrium, 1st floor Free entrance! This exhibition showcases a selection of remarkable Design for All processes and examples from all over Europe, illustrating how to create added value for people, businesses and public administration by means of participatory (inclusive) design and strategic design thinking. Synergising between the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 and the European Union´s Year of Active Ageing 2012, this exhibition spotlights the design challenges and opportunities raised by the issue of the world´s ageing population. Design for all has three categories of design applications - spaces, services, products. More information: Building a better society for all, by design This exhibition showcases a selection of remarkable Designfor All processes and examples from all over Europe, illustrating how to create added value for people, businesses and public administration by means of participatory (inclusive) design and strategic design thinking. Synergising between the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 and the European Union’s Year of Active Ageing 2012, this exhibition spotlights the design challenges and opportunities raised by the issue of the world’s ageing population. Shared Spaces, Services and Products Design for All processes create added value in many different ways, leading to new and sustainable market and business opportunities and ultimately a better City for All. Our three categories of design applications feature a wide variety of design applications.  Spaces: Shared Spaces– Shared Solutions How to use strategic design and design thinking to meet complex societal challenges in interdisciplinary governmental and administrative decision-making. European cities have a remarkable (multi)cultural heritage and a particularly challenging historical environment to respect, while tackling today’s challenges of mobility, ethnic and age diversity, accessibility and quality of life.  Services: Shared Services – Shared Experiences The challenge taken up by this exhibition is to illustrate great service design, achieved by Design for All. Service design cases, with a focus on social inclusion and inclusive business cases, offer an exciting challenge to communication and information design.  Products: SharedBusinesses – Shared Values Design for All thinking can create totally new inclusive business and product innovation strategies. By doing the right things – with design excellence and user-friendliness – a business can gain substantial reputation, new and sustainable profit margins and totally new markets… and of course happy, loyal customers.  
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