EKA Design Showcase 2024

The EKA Design Showcase gala, now in its seventh year, once again presents the best EKA students’ collaborative projects with companies and public sector organisations from the past year on 25 January 2024. We invite all current and future partners of EKA and all those interested in future design to attend the event!

REGISTRATION

Concepts, prototypes and ready-to-use solutions of innovative products and services created by EKA’s design students over the past year for companies and organisations such as the National Library of Estonia, Estonian Prison Service (Ministry of Justice), Antoniuse ÕU (Tartu Centre for Creative Industries), Eesti Energia, Estonian Refugee Council, Cignomet OÜ, Liven AS, GraceFit, Swedbank, Xarus Cosmetics OÜ, Integration Foundation (Ministry of Culture) and PERH (North Estonia Medical Centre) will be presented. There are prizes for the most influential and innovative projects!

These projects were created in the framework of EKA Faculty of Design’s new business cooperation programme LAETUS. Over the years, the Estonian Academy of Arts has accumulated a lot of experience in conducting collaborative projects and the LAETUS cooperation programme, launched in 2022, has further expanded this field of activity. The programme brings together EKA’s design courses and the business-related challenges of companies, providing synergies and fruitful collaboration and resulting in sustainable research and development projects that move all parties forward.

Come to the Design Showcase and gain new insights and inspiration on how to take your organisation’s products or services to the next level through a new generation of design and open innovation in partnership with EKA!

PROGRAMME

15:00 EKA building tour for those interested (pre-registration required)

16:00 EKA Design Showcase Gala starts. Welcoming words by moderator Jan Teevet and EKA’s Dean of the Faculty of Design Ruth-Helene Melioranski

16:15-17:30 Presentations of collaborative projects

• Service Design Sprint with Real Life Challenges in Tallinn’s Biggest Hospital – MA students in Social Design and Service Design and PERH

• Personal City – Let’s Walk! – students of MA Social Design and the Integration Foundation (Ministry of Culture)

• How to Become President – students of MA Social Design and the Integration Foundation (Ministry of Culture)

• Nuclear Energy Experience in 2035 – students of MA Interaction Design and Eesti Energia

• Making Estonia a Stepping Stone – students of MA Interaction Design and the Estonian Refugee Council

• Re-Branding of Antoniuse ÕU in Tartu’s Historic Jaani Quarter – students of BA Design and Innovation and Antoniuse ÕU (Tartu Centre for Creative Industries)

• Small Forms in the Courtyard of a New Residential Quarter – students of BA Design and Innovation and Liven AS

17:30-18:00 Coffee break

18:00-19:20 Presentations of collaborative projects

• Giving Agency to Prison Inmates by Establishing Digital Communication in Tallinn Prison – students of MA Design & Technology Futures and the Estonian Prison Service (Ministry of Justice)

• Empowering Your Fitness Journey on GraceFit – students of MA Interaction Design and GraceFit

• What Happens When a Schoolchild Arrives at the National Library? – students of MA Interaction Design and the National Library of Estonia

• The National Library’s Service System for Supporting Adults with Dyslexia – students of BA Digital Product Design and the National Library of Estonia

• Modular Storage of Electric Bicycles for Public Spaces and Apartment Associations – students of BA Industrial Design and Cignomet OÜ

• Design Thinking Based Onboarding for Swedbank – students of BA Digital Product Design and Swedbank

• Sustainable natural cosmetics brand concepts PIXEL and æsce – students of BA Design and Innovation and Xarus Cosmetics OÜ

• Helping to Achieve Riga Airport’s Ambition – to Become a Key Player in the Northern European Airport Market – students of Service Design Strategies and Innovations and Riga Airport

19:20 Acknowledgements and awards ceremony

19:30 End

 

The presentations are in Estonian and English, without translation.

It is possible to participate on-site at EKA (room A101) as well as via webcast http://tv.artun.ee/.

We are welcoming all current and future partners of EKA and those interested in future design to our event!

Watch a video of last year’s event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykpI2Jevyn0

 

Additional information:

Karin Kiigemägi
EKA Collaboration and Project Coordinator