The Innovations in Education business seminar, organized during the Beijing Design Week 2021, presents new solutions and smart innovations for schooling and learning, featuring both Helsinki’s own projects and business partners.
The seminar was part of Helsinki’s Guest City programme of the Beijing Design Week, the largest design festival in Asia. At the festival Helsinki was presented as a versatile user of design, building better everyday life and sustainable urban living by using design principles and professionals.
The Innovations in Education business seminar speakers:
• Greeting from the Deputy Mayor of Helsinki, Nasima Razmyar
• Helsinki Education Hub brings the innovators of education together, Mia-Stiina Heikkala, Project Lead, Helsinki Education Hub
• How to do STEAM with young children, Jenni Vartiainen, PhD and Head of Research, Kide Science
• Hot Skills & STEAM via Architecture, Pihla Meskanen, CEO, Arkki
• Designing for Children – Why it Matters?, Anne Rusanen, Head of Design, Hei School
• Combining Research and Practice – Investigating Physical and Virtual Features of Optimal Learning Environments; A Case Study of 21st Century Innovations in the Kalasatama School Centre, Helsinki, Freja Ståhlberg-Aalto, Dr. Science (Arch), Senior Architect, JKMM Architects, and Edit Bajsz, Project Architect, JKMM Architects
• New Learning Environments, Erkko Aarti, Architect & Partner, AOR Architects.
The seminar was organized on 18 September 2021.
The video has English subtitles.
