Recipes for Systemic Change - Helsinki Design Lab

The government’s latest five-year Development Plan for Education andResearch recognizes the many challenges facing the current educationsystem under the pressures of the post-industrial era. It is a candid andcomprehensive survey, delineating many topics in education that deservegreater scrutiny and need improvement. However, the report merely outlinesand names near-term targets and abstract goals. What is truly neededis a clear pathway for education and what it must do to must to take onpresent challenges and address long-term solutions.The opportunity for this studio is to frame this transformation andidentify the key dynamics within education toward developing an improvedsystem for today and the future. To do this, the studio will define more relevantand more comprehensive learning environments for all students. IfFinland wants to guarantee that its youth are able to keep pace in a changingworld and become active participants and competitive players on theglobal stage, the time to act is now.145