Thinking further afield Europe’s most interesting growth entrepreneurship event Slush attracted more than 17 000 technology enthusiasts, startups and investors from all corners of the globe to Helsinki at the turn of November – December. In just a few years, Slush has become a success story with global reach. Aalto University students inherited the event in 2011. At the time, it only had capacity for a couple of hundred people, but the students have since grown it into a global phenomenon. The right people with the necessary expertise, boldness and the essential creativity had to come together for this to happen. In an article written for this issue, Karen Korellis Reuther, leader of creative functions at VF Corporation, the parent company o of more than 30 lifestyle brands, notes how important importa it is for business people to also study creative disc disciplines, such as design. Design teaches empathic thinking, putting people first, she says. Kevin Tavin is responsible for Professor Ke Wide Art Studies, a selection of University W aimed at all Aalto students, and he courses aime believes that introducing art and creative thinking to fields with which they are not traditionally associated is important. traditionall Ideally, fres fresh perspectives will uncover the limitati limitations of our thought and highlight questions of o an entirely new kind. “By pushing and troubling boundaries, push we have the opportunity to create and develop com completely new ideas that help us to work bette better, take better care of ourselves, of others, and of the world – so that we can all build and share sha in a more fulfilling vision of the sums up. th he future,” Tavin T
COVER The Kokoon house designed by students was on display next to the Museum of Finnish Architecture. Read more about it on page 40.
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