Presentation for Slovak Industry Group 12.9.2022
Urban Mill Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations is a Finnish public-private-people partnership run by a private company, Järvelin Design Ltd, and the City of Espoo as one of the main partners. It is situated at the heart of the Espoo Innovation Garden at Aalto University campus in Helsinki Metropolitan area. Urban Mill community includes change makers from public and private sector, researchers, entrepreneurs, students as well as local residents and other users of urban environments.
Activities run in the Urban Mill respect open collaboration, cherishment of serendipity and open-doors philosophy and thus support a shared co-learning process. Entrepreneurial spirit and participation of all (including citizens, academics, business and public actors) is a characteristic feature of the Urban Mill. The Urban Mill experience shows the importance of focusing on a common theme to generate a bottom-up/open/participatory innovation process that delivers new capabilities, operational models and sustainable solutions to urban challenges
Urban Mill: Agile globally networked place-based ‘university-enterprise-people’ urban innovation facilitator and orchestrator in Otaniemi, Espoo
1. Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations
Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org
Urban Mill Innovation Platform
Slovak Industry Group 12.9.2022 @Aalto Design Factory
Urban Mill: Agile globally networked place-based ‘university-enterprise-
people’ urban innovation facilitator and orchestrator
at Espoo Innovation Garden
Kari Mikkelä
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Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org
Urban Mill Innovation Platform
A Gateway to Espoo Innovation Garden’s People and Services
Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations
Betonimiehenkuja 3E, 02150 Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org
Urban Mill Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations is a Finnish
public-private-people partnership run by a private company, Järvelin Design Ltd, and
the City of Espoo as one of the main partners. It is situated at the heart of the Espoo
Innovation Garden at Aalto University campus in Helsinki Metropolitan area. Urban
Mill community includes change makers from public and private sector, researchers,
entrepreneurs, students as well as local residents and other users of urban
environments.
Activities run in the Urban Mill respect open collaboration, cherishment of
serendipity and open-doors philosophy and thus support a shared co-learning
process. Entrepreneurial spirit and participation of all (including citizens, academics,
business and public actors) is a characteristic feature of the Urban Mill. The Urban
Mill experience shows the importance of focusing on a common theme to generate a
bottom-up/open/participatory innovation process that delivers new capabilities,
operational models and sustainable solutions to urban challenges
MSc (Tech) Kari Mikkelä, Executive Producer, Urban Mill Innovation Platform
Kari Mikkelä has extensive international experience in initiating, developing and orchestrating
innovation communities, platforms and ecosystems for global excellence. Kari is co-founder of the
Urban Mill Innovation Platform
3. Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations
Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org Versatile support for the Espoo Innovation Garden development!
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Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org
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Initiated 2012:
Four Innovation Deployment Themes
Transformation of Urban Life
Emerging Urban Services
Enabling Digital Solutions
Physical Built Environments
Energizing Urban Ecosystems Research Program 2012-2015, WP Regional Innovation Ecosystem (RIE), Task 7: T3 Ba
& Flow + Task 4: Regional Information Modeling, Järvelin Design Oy, Kari Mikkelä & Lars Miikki 2013
5. Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations
Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org
The Helsinki-Uusimaa Region (also called
Helsinki Region or Uusimaa Region), is at the
heart of northern Europe. It is situated on the
south coast of Finland, and it is home to around
1.6 million inhabitants, which is 30 percent of
the country’s total population.
ESPOO INNOVATION GARDEN BEARS
FRUIT FOR THE ENTIRE METROPOLITAN
AREA AND ALL OF FINLAND
Espoo Innovation Garden refers to innovative
ways of working and a culture of collaboration
and co-creation; it's a communal way of thinking
and doing things in the City of Espoo.
The heart of Espoo Innovation Garden is at the
Keilaniemi-Otaniemi-Tapiola area, the biggest
innovation hub in the Northern Europe. It is home
for e.g. Aalto University and VTT Technical
Research Centre of Finland. People of 110
different nationalities working in the area make
it a creative community of strong international
character.
Espoo Innovation Garden in the Heart of Helsinki Region!
Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations
Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org
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Espoo
Innovation
Garden
EIG
HELSINKI
VANTAA
ESPOO
Espoo is
the 2nd largest
city in Finland,
the western
part of the
Helsinki
Metropolitan
Area
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Framework for Open Innovation at Urban Mill
Adopted from
CatLabs Catalunya
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Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org Lars Miikki & Kari Mikkelä
Espoo School as a Service workshop together with companies 17.5.2016
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Urban Mill & Espoo - Selected images 2013-2021 (https://www.espoo.fi/en)
Experimenting the Lunch Talk
concept with Pohjois-Tapiola high
school in October 2017
Espoo city planning office presents
local plans on Espoo day Aug 2018
Otaniemi High School Kitchen
Chemistry Camp 9.-10.1.2020
Elina Wanne, City of Espoo, in virtual
Smart Urban Energy event 10.6.2021.
Hybrid event series kick-off: “Storm
of Thoughts in Otaniemi” 1.11.2018
Opening virtual Espoo Day 2020
event, Markku Markkula, Chair of the
Board at City of Espoo
Urban Mill gathered experts and entrepreneurs and
facilitated a series of three Databusiness Espoo / IoT West
Metro Zone Open Data workshops in the fall of 2015
Political leaders from the 6 biggest cities visiting the City
of Espoo and Otaniemi Innovation Alley (Urban Mill, Aalto
Design Factory and Startup Sauna) 4.10.2016. The visit
was co-facilitated by Urban Mill.
The Urban Mill Program 2014-2021 provides Espoo a globally networked learning, development and co-creation environment
where city servants and political leaders, researchers, professional and local associations, business representatives and
citizens meet, and developing and using new methods and processes for collaboration in urban development.
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Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org Lars Miikki & Kari Mikkelä
State visit to Aalto University and the robot bus Living lab bus stop at Urban Mill
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Urban Mill & Aalto - Selected images 2013-2021 (https://www.aalto.fi/en)
Centre of Excellence in Laser
Scanning Research demo 22.8.2018
School of Electrical Engineering
Management Team 23.4.2018
Basic course in academic thinking,
autumn 2015
Venue for Product development
Project course prototypes 2013-2020
Aalto Service Camp course spring
2015
Public Sector Hackathon by Aalto BIZ
and Accenture, January 2016
Dissertation 6.5.2016 (Urban Mill one of the cases)
International Visitor Groups 2013-
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Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org Lars Miikki & Kari Mikkelä
Kick-off of the Family Science Day event series for TEK members in Helsinki-Uusimaa region on January 28, 2017
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Urban Mill & TEK - Selected images 2013-2021 (https://www.tek.fi/en)
Workshop facilitation of the TEK
digital strategy 2013
Visit programme for MAL/TEK
members to Aalto campus 29.11.2018
In 2018, Urban Mill helped TEK create
a new virtual community: SUSTECH
TEK CEO Jari Jokinen, Smart Urban
Energy opening session 10.6.2021
Space support for members and
guilds: graduation, alumni etc. partys
Kick-off event of the new TEK
Entrepreneurship Academy 10.3.2020
UN SDG Workshop with TEK Technology Committee
members, City of Espoo Sustainable development and
Aalto Sustainability Hub 10.10.2018
Dinner of the joint seminar of the TEK Member Services
Committee and the Tech. Student Committee on 26.9.2014
The Urban Mill program 2014-2021 provides TEK with a collaborative environment for the development of community-based
professional association activities and experiments in the EIG area, with a focus on networking students, graduates and
international master students in the labor market and the senior professionals, as well as development of digital services
(emphasis on members' skills, innovation networks, information services). In order to implement the collaboration between TEK
and the City of Espoo, new forms of operation will be developed by piloting local and thematic meeting and event concepts at
Urban Mill and, more broadly, at Espoo Innovation Garden.
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Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org Lars Miikki & Kari Mikkelä
First ever virtual summer celebration with Otaniemi
startups, creatives and sustainability professionals,
Zoom & Deal Room 11.6.2020
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Urban Mill & VTT - Selected images 2013-2021 (https://www.vttresearch.com/en)
VTT research personnel association
VTDI meeting 24.11.2014
The a cappella ensemble St. Notes
from VTT on Espoo day 24.8.2018
Works from The Making of Tomorrow
design hackathon displayed 13.9.2017
Virtual workspace and online site
visit to Smart Otaniemi 10.6.2021
Panelist arriving to the VTT event
Materials for future designs 13.9.2017
Pilot in Dipoli:
Living factories – Carbon Neutrality
with Synthetic Biology, 18.9.2019
Finland / Otaniemi as a Pilot Base for Flexible Energy
Workshop 6.4.2017, organized by VTT, City of Espoo, Aalto
University / ACRE and Urban Mill
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Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org Lars Miikki & Kari Mikkelä
“The Get to know SBC event was a success, with people attending from various backgrounds. We spoke about the club,
ideated about weird sustainable startups, brainstormed on new designs for the club, learnt about energy, and had a fun
time getting to know each other with good vegan food.” – Sustainable Business Club (SBC) 12.11.2020
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Home base for Aalto student events- selected images 2018-2021 (https://www.ayy.fi/en)
31.8.2020: First day at Uni: 150+ new
students at the School of Chemical
Engineering arriving in corpore …
… for an event organized by older
students to present companies in the
field and their job opportunities
Graffathons 2018 & 2019 – electronic
art created during 3-day hackathons..
Machine Intelligence Meetup event
20.6.2018 by Aalto AI Society
Local academic skiing club Skipoli's 45th
anniversary exhibition, Oct 2019 – Jan 2020
.. organized by Digital Media
Club of Aalto University DOT
Honey extraction workshops 2019-21 in beekeeping
project by Aalto Test Site students who want to increase
the presence of bees as pollinators in urban environments
Students' Guild of Surveying Engineers held its annual
election meeting once again at Urban Mill in 2019. The
photo shows the new Board for 2020.
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Urban Mill Innovation Platform supports and facilitates
inclusive co-creation in Espoo Innovation Garden
• Urban Mill community includes change makers from public and private sector, researchers,
entrepreneurs, students as well as local residents and other users of urban environments.
• Activities run in the Urban Mill respect open collaboration, cherishment of serendipity and open-
doors philosophy and thus support a shared co-learning process.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and digitally supported participation of all (including citizens, academics,
business and public actors) is a characteristic feature of Urban Mill.
• The Urban Mill experience shows the importance of focusing on a common theme to
generate a bottom-up, open and participatory innovation process that delivers new capabilities,
operational models and sustainable solutions to urban challenges
• Urban Mill Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations is a public-private-people
partnership operated by a private company, Järvelin Design Ltd, and the City of Espoo and Aalto
University as main partners. It is situated at the heart of the Espoo Innovation Garden at Aalto
University campus in Helsinki Metropolitan area.
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• We have stepped to a Postnormal VUCA Era
• Old operational models don’t fit to the new reality
• Individuals innovate, not institutions!
• Meaningful purposes motivate and engage people
• Multi-talented and -disciplinary teams thrive
• Connected platforms enable people to contribute
• Entrepreneurial thinking and new business models emerge!
• Ecosystems and networks are new working contexts
• Systemic gaps filled and wicked problems solved!
• Ambidexterity rules: think local and build global impact!
WHY?
Think Local, Act Global!
We are connecting local actors within a
global world:
Kari Mikkelä, Urban Mill Innovation Platform, 2017
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Our main challenge and aim is to build boundary
objects between people and organisational structures
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Orchestration of smart connected platforms supporting creative
knowledge work
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Espoo Innovation
Garden
Sustainable
solutions
Challenges
Capabilities
Knowledge
Business
models
People
Networked Smart
Working Methods
& Space
Co-learning
Co-design
Co-effectuation
Physical &
Digital
Environment
Social &
Cultural
Networks
Energizing Urban Ecosystems Research Program 2012-2016 Lars Miikki & Kari Mikkelä, Järvelin Design Oy 21.8.2012 / 20..2017
A Smart Networked Co-Working Space supporting Creative Knowledge Work
WORLD
Impact Driven!
• Energizing creative and
innovative people
• Impact and outcome driven
• Supports creative knowledge
work
• Facilitates co-learning, co-
design and co-effectuation
• Enabled by networked physical
and digital platforms
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Examples of experimental open public events at Urban Mill
MALLIKUVA
Residential Forums organized by local Otaniemi
and Suur-Tapiola resident associations in Urban
Mill have been successful.
Since 2016, the experimental Otaolut small brewery
festival has brought together thousands of represen-
tatives of different disciplines, local residents and
visitors from other parts of the metropolitan area.
Children get acquainted with science, experiment
and learn at the Science days for families, arranged
by Urban Mill’s partner TEK (Academic engineers
and architects in Finland) 3-4 times a year.
HoT Bike Center service experiment in Urban Mill
2013: 150 local bikers fixed up their bikes in HoT
demo day.
”Uusimaa Innovates” event on Uusimaa week 2016:
regional RIS3 actors was presented to the public.
The theme was new work and new forms of work.
”Experimenting at Otaniemi Innovation Alley” event
has collided hundreds of citizens to entrepreneurs
and researchers on Espoo Days since 2013.
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Urban Mill enables multi-stakeholder collaboration in international
knowledge-intensive context
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A community: We open doors for
passionate pioneering developers
and early adopters of innovations to
co-learn, co-design and co-deploy.
A platform: Our physical and digital
spaces and platform network are
ideal for promoting, testing,
developing and exhibiting new
solutions which support urban life.
An ecosystem node: We are
connected to a spectrum of global
networks through our community
members and partners. Thus we are
able to bring our complementary
thematic expertise to several
ecosystems.
A global hub: We engage and bring
together actors from around the
world to co-create solutions to
wicked urban challenges and share
our learnings openly to our partner
and member networks.
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Examples of co-design workshops co-organized and facilitated by
Urban Mill, preparing sustainable solutions for societal challenges
In 2017 Urban Mill co-organized an expert forum with
Espoo and VTT and facilitated a workshop “Finland as
a Pilot Base for Flexible Energy - Otaniemi / Metro-
politan area as the spearhead for linked pilots”.
Urban Mill produced and facilitated the Arctic
Space Workshop 2016 in collaboration with ESA,
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment
and the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment:
TEM Open Space session facilitated by Urban Mill:
Innovation ecosystems and international human
capital @ Microsoft Flux, Helsinki 25.4.2017.
Workshop produced for the Committee for the Future in
2017: AR, VR, etc. digital tools and digit. supp. working
methods for the development of infrastructure and work
in the new creative space of the Parliament Building.
2014: Urban Mill facilitated workshops for the staff
and delegates of the Academic Engineers and
Architects in Finland TEK (70.000+ members) to
develop the digital strategy for the organization.
Urban Mill gathered experts and entrepreneurs and
facilitated three Databusiness Espoo / IoT West
Metro Zone Open Data workshops at Urban Mill in
the fall of 2015.
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Facilitated by Urban Wheel ™ Innovation Acceleration Process
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“Life is lived
forwards,
but understood
backwards.”
”If you want to go
fast, go alone;
if you want to go
far, go with
others.”
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Examples of pilot experiments co-created with Urban Mill
Experimenting the Lunch Talk
concept with Pohjois-Tapiola high
school (local School-as-a-Service
school) in October 2017.
Autumn 2017: Samocat Sharing's kick
scooter service pilot in Otaniemi in
collaboration with ACRE, Espoo and
Urban Mill (home base in Finland for
the startup and the pilot).
Espoo Day events 2014: testing mobile
service offered to the citizens
including a network of QR / NFC tags
distributed across the physical urban
environment.
Digital theme route prototype for the
Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council:
finding Finland100 anniversary event
details from Google Maps and from
physical event locations using QR codes.
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Experimenting Mini-pdp course with
Aalto Design Factory and Startup
Sauna coaches for nearby Lauttasaari
high school students 2013.
Urban Mill hosted 70 Entrepreneurship
students from Mondragon Team
Academy (San Sebastian and Madrid)
in Otaniemi for six weeks in the
beginning of 2018.
Startup Garden entrepreneurial
summer camp in Urban Mill for
South Korean students in 2015, 2016
and 2017.
Pre-school children participating in
urban farming initiative at Urban Mill
in the spring of 2015.
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Urban Mill’s operational model: platform, community and ecosystem
service elements
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ECOSYSTEMS
COMMUNITIES
PLATFORMS
2021-
2013-2020 2017-2024
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Examples of strategic expert forums assembled and facilitated by Urban
Mill
Co-working and Co-creation Platform for Urban Innovations
Espoo, Finland www.urbanmill.org
Innovation ecosystems as drivers of research–
industry cooperation 2016-2017: Urban Mill acted as
a co-producer in this Prime Minister's Office’s
assignment (part of the implementation of the
Government Plan for Analysis, Assessment and
Research for 2016). Urban Mill assembled the
project’s expert pool, facilitated co-operation with it
and organized a national kick-off workshop. In
addition Urban Mill acted as a co-producer of
regional innovation ecosystem workshops and
facilitated them in Espoo, Helsinki, Vaasa and Oulu.
Link to the report: https://bit.ly/2q4dFKm
Urban Mill has hosted a number of expert
forums for the development of the innovation
ecosystem of Otaniemi-Keilaniemi-Tapiola, the
heart of Espoo Innovation Garden, such as
seminars and research workshops for the
Energizing Urban Ecosystems research project
2013-2016. The metaphor and the working
philosophy of Espoo Innovation Garden was
emerged and co-created in these workshops.
Orchestrating Regional Innovation Systems –
Espoo Innovation Garden:
https://urbanmillblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/
05/eka_updated_lowres.pdf
Growth factors and bottlenecks for business
start-ups 2015-2016: Urban Mill acted as a co-
producer in this Prime Minister's Office’s
assignment (part of the implementation of the
Government Plan for Analysis, Assessment and
Research for 2015). Urban Mill assembled the
project’s expert pool, facilitated co-operation
with it and organized the Otaniemi
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Workshop, which
brought together key actors from Otaniemi area
and high level experts of the scene.
Link to the report: https://bit.ly/2GxM8qM
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Urban Mill framework for Dynamic Innovation Orchestration
Five boundary resource roles and capabilities intertwining service and innovation processes
Versio 1.0
Kari
Mikkelä
&
Lars
Miikki,
Urban
Mill,
1.2.2018/18.11.2021
OFFERINGS
INNOVATION COMMUNITIES, PLATFORMS AND ECOSYSTEMS
NEEDS
GLOBAL REALITY - POSTNORMAL VUCA ERA
USER COMMUNITIES
SERVICE
ECOSYSTEMS
Strategic
management
Services and
operations
developers
Services
Offerings
Producers
Use of
Services
Innovation orchestrator
Visionary Power
Political leadership capabilities
Framing capabilities
Cognitive clarity
Agile Design:
Artefication capabilities
Social
meaningfulness
Interaction
capabilities
Spatial
understanding
Ecological
interfacing
capabilities
• Internal
• PPP
• External
• Direct
• Networked
• Potential
Co-creation Co-producing
Version 2.3
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innovation
process
->
<- service process ->
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Examples of digital tools and platforms, part of the holistic digital
architecture experimented and used by Urban Mill
Digital co-working environment:
REAL collaboration platform, Humap
Software Oy
Smart tags and mobile services,
Bonwal Oy
Large touch screens and Android
platform for content applications for
global distribution, Kuori Oy
Machine vision for tracking and
profiling people flows, Delicode Oy
Digital service platform for company
information, Datascouts
Future foresight tool, Futures
Platform
Digital content and display solutions,
3D-Cave technology, Satavision Oy and
Aalto Built Environment Lab (ABE)
Mobile apps for Events support and
global service, mFabrik Oy
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An example of an innovation programme produced by Urban Mill:
UUSAIKA – Regional smart specialisation initiative for Citizen City
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UUSAIKA project was implementing a part of the Helsinki-Uusimaa Region’s RIS3 strategy (Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart
Specialisation) from October 2015 to March 2017. The project was financed by Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council, the City of Espoo and
Järvelin Design Ltd. The project was produced and orchestrated by Urban Mill.
UUSAIKA project applied and tailored the Urban Mill model for the Helsinki-Uusimaa Region in order to activate and connect the innovation
actors and activities of the whole region focusing on the RIS3 spearhead theme Welfare City (2018 Citizen City).
During 18 months UUSAIKA project contributed to 200 thematic events which brought together 12,000 participants from 1,000 organisations
and which provided communal activities, inclusive for all people from children to seniors and from public servants to entrepreneurs. The
project mapped and visited a network of 80 co-working spaces from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area and supported the work of over 50 startup
or development teams. The Co-working spaces were openly published on the Google map and the teams promoted through Urban Mill’s social
and digital channels.
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An Urban Mill co-creation case 2017-2018:
City of Espoo as a frictionless Innovation City!
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Evening event on the Scene: Experience Future workshop – Urban Mill in collaboration with Aalto University Experience
platform, Aalto University Living+ platform and The Finnish Society for Futures studies / Helsinki group. Enabled by
European Design Upgrade (EDU) project 2020.
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A busy day example 10.3.2020 - one of the last days just before the pandemic struck
Whole day market dialogue event on
the Scene by the City of Espoo…
…criteria for infrastructure tendering
were co-designed with contractors
… and the results were finally
discussed
Experience Future workshop on
Urban Mill’s YouTube channel
At the same time, Haaga Helia’s adult
students worked in the cave…
Creating utopia for year 2042 in the
Experience Future workshop
Evening in the Cave: Kick off event of the new TEK
Entrepreneurship Academy
Haaga-Helia’s teacher training workshop started in the
morning in the Cave: Entrepreneurship & Edupreneurship
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2020: Development of a Hybrid
distributed Service concept!
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Relocating a sculpture by Aneta
Atsova to Startup Sauna 2021
Elbow Room Lab, a site-specific
circus laboratory on 10.-12.12.2020
RATTO Festival 2018. Multidisciplinary annual event organized this year by Aalto students for Helsinki metropolitan area
young adults, event theme medieval time. Photo by Fanny Carolina
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Piloting context: Experimental Arts & Culture - selected images 2018-2021
Art based on point clouds by theCoE
in Laser Scanning Research 2018
Aino Venna sings on Ballantine Scale
promo video shot in Urban Mill 2019
In 2019 Ministry of Education and Culture awarded the
Finland Prize to choreographer and air acrobat Ilona Jäntti
Final rehearsal of Robert Jägerhorn’s Magic show before
the premiere on the Theater Festival in New York 2019
COVID-safe song rehearsal of the Helsinki-based Kumpula
mixed choir in 2020 - men in the loft and women downstairs
'Haliurunnae‘
by A. Atsova
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CREATIVE OTANIEMI TALKS
Espoo Day Event on Zoom 28.8.2020
PART ONE
An Urban Mill Production
Inspirational talks about creativity & sustainability in Otaniemi,
in the very heart of Espoo Innovation Garden
Presentations in Zoom by the City Espoo, Aalto University and
creative designers
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Meet the creatives and startups at Urban Mill: https://www.thinglink.com/video/1377992839434076161
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EDU TALKS ON DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2020
RADICAL CREATIVITY
– HOW CAN WE BREAK THE BORDERS?
What is radical design?
What is Boundary crossing Creativity?
Building bridges between countries, people – how to
implement it in design communities?
PANEL DISCUSSION ON ZOOM
22.10.2020
12:30-14:00
DDW 2020
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Urban Mill’s Hybrid Service Concept - four production modes
3. STUDIO (L): A Grid – Smart Urban Energy 10.6.2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwmSnAyd6CA
4. PLATFORM (XL): Aalto Design Factory – PdP Gala 4.9.2020
www.flickr.com/photos/aaltodesignfactory/albums/72157715873955423 George Atanassov
2. MOBILE (M): Juhanilan kylän joulunavaus 20.12.2020
https://youtu.be/E5hCPeqS3lE
1. PERSONAL (S): Urban Mill’s New Year greetings 31.12.2020
www.facebook.com/UrbanMill/videos/399026477839705
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CRESCENDO@CC Initiative
Creative Sustainable Endeavours in Cities and
Communities, 2021-
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5) Urban Mill Creative
Sustainable City
Ecosystem
(Entrepreneurship-driven)
6) Smart Otaniemi 2.0
Green Energy
Ecosystem
(Institutions-driven)
4) Pro Karhusaari
Cultural and Creative
Heritage Ecosystem
(Citizens-driven)
2) Hybrid collaboration and events service concept
1) Network of Innovation Hubs and Communities
8) Globally connected
Place-based Innovation (SDG17)
Ecosystem Hub model for Otaniemi
3) Activities, events and endeavours with, for
and by local, national and international actors
7) Boundary Spanning Champions network (UIIN)
Public good with a private risk!
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6.
Hankevalmistelu,
-operointi ja -tuki
alueelle strate-
gisesti tärkeissä
toimissa
5. SDG-yhteistyö
Otaniemessä ja
sen ulkopuolella:
food, health,
bioeconomy,
environment,
energy, lifelong
learning
4. Neuvonta ja
kokeilutilat alueen
asukkaille, opiskelijoille,
opettajille, harrastus-
yhteisöille ja kehit-
täjätiimeille
3. Otaniemen
sisäisen innovaatio-
yhteistyön
tukeminen ja
alueen promoa-
minen
2. Tiedon
jakaminen ja
tapahtumatuki
alueen toimija-
yhteisölle
1. Globaali
kehityksen
seuranta ja toimi-
joiden kuuntelu:
mahdollisuuksien
kartoitus ja uusien
tarpeiden
tunnistus
8. Ohjelman
valmistelu alueen
ulkoisen tarjoutu-
misen ja sisäisen
yhteistyön vahvis-
tamiseksi
Otaniemi
TKI
7. Palvelut kansain-
välisille osaajille ja
organisaatioille sekä
kansainvälisen yhteis-
toiminnan
vahvistaminen
Otaniemen innovaatioekosysteemin palvelumallin
sisältöalueet sekä valmistelu ja käynnistys 2020–
2022.
1. Palvelumallin osia on kehitetty ja testattu Urban
Mill -ohjelman puitteissa 2020–2021
2. Palvelumallin luominen ja testaaminen kolmessa
pilottiekosysteemissä sekä Place-based
Innovation Ecosystems -ohjelman valmistelu
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3. Palvelun käynnistäminen Place-based Innovation
Ecosystems -ohjelman avulla 2022.