Smart Design

Well-being and Competitiveness Through Innovative Design

The Smart Design platform focuses on modeling and developing complex systems within industrial and societal contexts. It combines innovation, circular economy, and digital expertise through systemic design methods. The platform serves as a hub for multidisciplinary collaboration, where industrial design, technological development, and sustainability intersect. Its goal is to develop sustainable, scalable solutions that address both current and future challenges. Innovative approaches based on digital tools and methods enable the creation of efficient and environmentally friendly solutions.

The research platform is dedicated

to identifying and solving challenges related to industrial and societal ecosystems, systems, products, and services. Innovation and the principles of the circular economy are at the core of its operations.

Tools as Part of the Process

The platform utilizes tools such as industrial service design, product design, co-creation, data analytics, and visualization methods.

The Future is an Opportunity

The goal is to explore the potential of the welfare society and experimental culture as drivers of well-being.

Pertti Aula Connects People and Technologies into Functional Solutions through Systemic Design

Pertti Aula is a Research Manager at VAMK’s Design Centre Muova, with a background in industrial design and deep expertise in systemic design. His approach frames development challenges as systemic actors, enabling the management of complex wholes. Systemic design makes it possible to integrate both people and technologies into functional, effective solutions.

“The systemic nature of the world becomes evident in the challenges of the circular economy. To overcome these challenges, we need broad solutions capable of connecting previously undefined actors.”

In development work, industrial design always aligns with the human perspective. Technologies are tools that help us achieve our goals.