Servicedesign
Servicedesign project is based on four things around competence of design.
Foresight :: Communication :: Training :: Collaboration
Servicedesign project has been created to upgrade service design knowledge in Southern Finland and Estonia. Active project partners are going to be Lahti University of Applied Sciences (LUAS) as a Lead partner and Estonian Institute for Future Studies (ETI) as a project partner. Need has arisen because of the globally and especially in Europe rapidly crowing service sector. By this project Finland and Estonia will both have an opportunity to lead the development path in service design field. The main goal of this project is to engender permanent results and dynamic forums for this new knowledge business. The new knowledge will be created in communication that will take forms of Servicedesign - online platform, multimedia book, Servicedesign -event, training module and collaboration with companies.
Project actions are based on social media (Servicedesign - online platform). Created research, training, events and publications are linked in this platform in useful way. Platform operates like project memory, gathering results and actions, online.
Servicedesign project has a strong future orientation. Foresight research will include an analysis of the evolution of service design knowledge and interpretation. These results will be exploited in the service design processes with selected companies in the programme area.
By the studies, around service design, a new training module is developed and piloted at LUAS. This new training module needs cross-discipline thinking and cannot be done by one organisation alone. It needs fresh and new point of views in design sector. Key thing here is passage from tangible to intangible design, and this new understanding need new type of methods, that are developed in this project.
Project aim is to make cross-border economics in design sector possible to engender. This can be made by social activities this project creates.