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Ton Venhoeven: A City Is Not A Factory
28.03.2012 - Tommi Laitio
“Multifunction home is not a new concept”, architect Ton Venhoeven said during his lecture at Aalto University as he gave a strong punch to urban planning tradition where different functions are separated to separate areas of the city. As Dutch government´s advisor on infrastructure, Venhoeven is ...
Read more ››Test Run on Apps: Being My Own Quinea Pig
24.03.2012 - Tommi Laitio
Quantified self is the big hype now in behavioral science and design. Quantified self is self knowledge through numbers – often assisted by mobile technology. Several research agencies have started massive programmes on it. I spent January in California and the theme came up in all the designer and ...
Read more ››We Built This City With Dirt Under Our Fingertails
22.03.2012 - Tommi Laitio
I lectured yesterday about urbanism at Aalto University´s School of Architecture. It made me think of the radical change that has happened in ways we think about life in cities. Still, when I was nine years old, the biggest dairy company Valio ran TV ads where life in the city was described with phras...
Read more ››Tell Them Why
19.03.2012 - Tommi Laitio
There´s really something we Europeans could learn from Americans in ways of telling why things are done. These pictures are from the Orange County Great Park, the first metropolitan public park built in the 21st century. When they invest in sustainable techniques, they´ve decided to include people in...
Read more ››How Less Really Could Be More?
16.03.2012 - Tommi Laitio
“It´s really small things that can bring the sense of community. It´s enough that we know one same person or we have gone to the same school. That helps a lot when you move to Helsinki for the first time and you are kind of freaked out by the city”, biology student Elina explains. We´re at Satak...
Read more ››Kasper, The Friendly Host (+ 9 other shared living lessons)
11.03.2012 - Tommi Laitio
“Why do you want to be the one who organises it all and helps others”, I ask. “I just want things to to work”, Kasper says. He is a business student with a big grin. He seems to be one of those people who are easy to approach. We are in his kitchen with a group of architecture students. He live...
Read more ››Hookup
08.03.2012 - Tommi Laitio
We’re walking around Copenhagen’s Sluseholmen. It’s the first day of our Aalto-Demos-Hoas excursion to Copenhgen. The story of this area is familiar from Helsinki – an old harbour transformed into a residential area. We visit an apartment building designed by Dissing & Weitling. I like this bu...
Read more ››Swedish Mega-Nudge
06.03.2012 - Tommi Laitio
Stockholm Central Station. Tuesday 6 March 2012. 7.30 am.
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Tommi Laitio
Tommi Laitio is a researcher at Finland´s leading independent think tank Demos Helsinki. He is in charge of its World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 project Hoas Lab. In his blog, Tommi will look at ways to nudge people towards sustainable and awesome lifestyles. As a political scientist he will also be diving into the deep unknown this spring, as a teacher at the Aalto Department of Architecture.
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