Dear Colleagues,

If you are in Melbourne, Australia, on March 16th, we invite you to
join us at Swinburne University for a presentation by Kalevi Ekman of
the Helsinki Design Factory. Design Factory is a unique center of
invention, innovation, and entrepreneurial action where students of
technology, engineering, and design work in multi-disciplinary teams to
solve real problems for business, industry, and the public sector.

If you can join us, please do. Details below.

Yours,

Ken Friedman

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FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: 16 March 2011

Swinburne University
 
Design Perspectives Lecture Series: 

Design Factory’s Kalevi Ekman

The story of the Aalto University Design Factory, a passion-based
co-creation platform for learning and entrepreneurial action 

When: 

Wednesday 16th March, 2pm to 3.30pm  

Where: 

Swinburne University of Technology
Faculty of Design 
PA Building Lecture Theatre (PA309)  
Prahran Campus (144 High Street) 

Design Factory provides innovative programs in product development and
entrepreneurship at Finland’s Aalto University. It embraces approaches
to teaching, learning, and entrepreneurial action pioneered at Stanford
University.

Design Factory brings student teams together from design, economics,
engineering and technology to develop new prototype products for Finnish
industry. Commissioning corporations provide 15,000 Euros ($20,650 AUD)
to support projects running for two semesters. Students collaborate with
industry, and many students establish successful businesses while
studying. 

Located in Otaniemi, Finland, the Design Factory building hosts
courses, research projects, and start-up companies, as well as
short-term co-operation projects.

Kalevi Ekman (Eetu): Eetu is the Director of Design Factory and
Professor of Machine Design at Aalto University School of Science and
Technology. He also leads the Product Development Project and was named
Otaniemi of the Year in 2009. 

For more about Design Factory go to: 

 http://aaltodesignfactory.fi/

RSVP by Monday 14th March. Send RSVP to:

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with the subject line: Design Factory

or phone Henry Ngo on 03 9214 6871