1. ENGAGING
WORKING
ENVIRONMENTS
KIRSTI LONKA,
KAI HAKKARAINEN, LEENA KROKFORS AND KATARIINA SALMELA-ARO,
NICLAS SANDSTRÖM AND LAURI VAARA, OLLI VESTERINEN,
FACULTY OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES,
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
JARMO SUOMINEN AND SUVI NENONEN
AALTO UNIVERSITY
4. • . • Adapt to change
• Engage the participants
• Cross boundaries
• Create new tools
• Foster collaboration
• Promote well-being, productivity
and learning
• Enable transgenerational and
inter-disciplinary learning
Unleash the beast of co-creation!
FLIPYOUR WORKPLACE!
5. Faculty of Behavioural Sciences / KM Lauri Vaara, 2014
Kuvat: Mikko Halonen/Veikko SomerpuroKuva: smartpaint.fi
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2012
6. • Intelligent physical, virtual, social and mental
spaces for co-creating value, fostering well-
being and refining blended knowledge practices
in the workplace
• Transgenerational and cross-disciplinary interaction
• Job crafting and empowerment of employees
WHAT IS EWE? #EWEHUBS
ENGAGINGWORKINGENVIRONMENT
7. • Intellectual activity is shared
between people and their tools
• We want to help people to
overcome the limits of their
working memory
• Joint practices where
generations collaborate
MIND THE GAP!
10. AGILE SOLUTIONS
FORSCHOOLS,OFFICES,BUSINESSES
Lounge for informal
interaction
Neighborhoods
with specific
themes and
identities
Shared
kitchen and
lounge
FabLab,
makers
world
Open shared space
for value co-
creation
Most personal
Most general
Most personal
Socio-digital technologies: smart phones, social media and clouds seamlessly integrate personal, communal and networked activity
This will have great effects on academic and professional productivity.
ICT was previously embedded on bulky machines in rigidly structured computer classrooms, but new socio-digital technologies are ubiquitous: both learning and co-creation are free of time and space.
By relying on living labs, we facilitate social innovation of various user communities, we intend to produce solutions to elicit true knowledge creation
A university department, a school, and an office as living labs