Projects

Health 2050 is a broad study by Demos Helsinki and The National Institute for Health and Welfare that draws attention to the freedom of choice in health-related matters and to the future of health in general. It produces new information about the opportunities the municipalities, organizations and corporates have to…

Demos Helsinki created a model for integrating experiments into the national policy-making process. The model is highlighted by the OECD (pp. 79-92) as one of the world’s key examples of systemic level innovations. The model was commissioned by the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office and it is used by Finnish ministries…

What are the possibilities in using digitalization and Internet of Things to improve human capabilities and create a more resource smart world? The Naked Approach is a significant strategic research project that investigates means to create an alternative, human-driven approach to operate in the digitalizing society. Design, technology and business solutions…

It has often been claimed that robot technology is not the future but the reality today. Demos Helsinki and Metropolia are making this claim come true in terms of public transport by analysing the functionality and social acceptability of robot buses. What does it feel like to step into a…

Finnish retailing cooperative S Group’s logistic centre will be moving from Kera, an industrial area in Espoo, to Sipoo in the coming years. This opens up the opportunity to develop a whole new kind of neighbourhood in Kera. A partnership between S Group and Demos Effect that began a year…

The UN’s new sustainable development programme, Agenda 2030, was launched at the beginning of 2016. At the heart of the programme are 17 universally accepted goals along with 169 sub-goals. The aim of the goals is to eradicate extreme poverty and to foster sustainable development both economically and in terms…

Welcome to Failand! The country where conventional food and energy supplies do not work and security is in shatters. Or would you rather travel to Winland, a Finland where resilient planning and policy-making processes have prevented such a catastrophe from occurring? Our research project ‘From Failand to Winland’ provides an insight to…

European cities have recently tried to accommodate the rapidly grown refugee population. In our view, there is a clear need to rethink refugee accommodation and integration. Instead of seeing the newcomers as burdens of the system, our project approaches refugees as skillful and interested individuals who can contribute to new…

Regional governments and Tanzanian and Zanzibar Planning Committees were trained to do foresight in a very intensive three day workshop. The trained methodologies included environmental scanning, systematic approach to foresight and futures studies, Delphi process and preparing scenarios. The training included teaching the methodologies themselves with a hands-on exercise to…

New forms of government are sprouting up everywhere: Helsinki Design Lab and Design Driven City programme of Finland, Policy Lab under the UK Cabinet, MindLab of Denmark, and the Public Policy Lab of New York are just the beginning. These actors are renewing the public sector and innovating better societal solutions in the…