PROGRAMME August 12th

TBA

KEYNOTES:

Juhani Risku

Art and design are phenomena of higher abstraction of knowledge, skill, understanding and criticism –> New leadership begins

Who, what, why and how? Juhani Risku has studied a lot as an early riser. But, has also been an apprentice for fifteen masters in 400 MW turbines and generators; room, building and physical acoustics; Arts & Crafts; photography and many other fields. In the end, he defended his doctorate on the impact of art, design and creativity on startups. Now he is returning to architecture, to art and crafts.

Design and art offer a new approach to leadership, for example, because they offer a higher abstraction to creativity and practical work, with civic courage and an ethical attitude. Designers and artists are particularly industrious, and they take their work to the highest level without compromising on content and quality. It is also worth noting that the abstraction of design is in humans from birth – because art is an abstraction for adults.

Design and art form a powerful butterfly effect: Individual people rise as conveners to lead the future in the Fibonacci series 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55… … 17711, 28657…, allowing everyone to join in. Now begins a new hype, from this symposium.

Declaration: The designer–artist–craftsman is the strong leader who creates a new future from the front and with example, courage and ethics in data, energy and industry, but also in society and future systems.

 

 

 

 

Anne Stenros

 

 

Anne Stenros is a Finnish architect, professor, and was formerly the Design Director at KONE Corporation, as well as the world’s first Chief Design Officer (CDO) of any city – Helsinki. Stenros studied architecture under, among others, Reima Pietilä at the University of Oulu, and Christopher Alexander at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Doctor of Technology degree from Helsinki University of Technology in 1992. Stenros was the director of Design Forum Finland from 1995 to 2004, after which she spent a year in Asia as the director of the Hong Kong Design Centre. She served as the first Design Director at KONE Corporation from 2005 to 2015, City of Helsinki’s CDO from 2016 to 2018, and founded Creative Catalyst in 2018 – all the while lecturing at various universities including Aalto University (Finland) and Nagaoka University (Japan). Stenros is also a founding member of WIT Forum in Finland.