School of Art and Design
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The Future Home Institute (FHI) is a multi-disciplinary research unit established in 1997 as part of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK).
Its origins are in the Future Home research and development programme, a joint initiative of several public and private organizations and departments of TaiK, aiming at addressing the future challenges of housing and the domestic environment by combining approaches from architecture, product design and technology.
During its history, the institute has realized over 50 research projects together with other research units and companies, mainly funded by Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation), Ministry of the Environment, Academy of Finland and companies.
Research Focus
The Unit’s research is focused on situational “user experience” in living environments: living, working, service, and urban areas.
The research aims at producing new knowledge that can give input to user-centered design and development of environments, products and services enabling changing patterns of everyday living.
The research approach combines methodologies of user-centered design research with new strategies like mass customization research and customer-driven business models, seeking for synergy between academia and the industry.
Living
- Diversification of lifestyles
- Users’ everyday practices and processes
- Home as service platform
- New housing and living concepts
- Value creation and value networks in living
- User innovation
- Open innovation and co-creation in living environments
- Individual accessible design.
- Environments
- Situations
- Services and management of distributed
- Knowledge work
- User-centered workplace design
- Spaces and technologies proactively supporting innovation.
- Service needs in the living environment
- Living logistics
- Service design
- Social service innovation
- Multi-channel services
- Integration of spaces and virtual and physical services
- Just-in-time services and persuasive technologies
- New value networks.
- Performance and user experience of urban areas from the perspectives of different user groups and their everyday life
- Responsive city
- Roadmapping the identity building and service structure development of urban areas
- Co-creation of urban environments
- New area concepts.
Partners
The Unit’s main Finnish scientific collaboration partners
- Helsinki University of Technology
- Helsinki School of Economics
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Tampere University of Technology
- University of Helsinki
- In TaiK, the Unit has collaborated with Media Lab and the School of Design.
The main international scientific partners
- MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA
- Yonsei University in Korea
- Keio University in Japan
- Hong Kong University of Technology
Contact Information:
FUTURE HOME INSTITUTE
Taideteollinen korkeakoulu
Hämeentie 135 C
FI-00560 Helsinki
Telefax +358 9 7563 0433