The University of Lapland will host a joint Finnish-Japanese symposium focusing on health care, communities, service design, and multidisciplinary cooperation from 5th to 7th of November. The event will provide a platform for specialist of different fields from both countries to discuss problems and key issues that are relevant to both Japan and Finland.
The event is titled Innovation and Well-Being through Multidisciplinary
Dialogue, and it will consist of two days of individually themed
workshops and a final day symposium, in which the results of the
preceding workshops and possible future efforts will be announced along
with four keynote speeches. The keynote speeches will deal with everyday
well-being in later life; the role of ICT based services in health
services and home healthcare in remote areas; as well as space design
for shrinking communities in northern regions. The workshops are aimed
for researchers, professors and students, whereas the final day
symposium is open for the public.
The symposium will continue the
cooperation which universities from Finland and Hokkaido have carried
out under the Sustainability Weeks programme of the Hokkaido University
since 2005. The cooperation originally focused on environmental
research, but this year the focus will shift to service design, health
care and communities. More specifically, the aim is to find ways to
update those themes for the needs of today through design thinking and
multidisciplinary collaboration.
Further information:
Seminar programme
Professor of Applied Art and Design Satu Miettinen
Tel. +358 40 4844367
satu.miettinen (at) ulapland.fi
ULapland/Communications/SV