Good morning!

I’ll just keep the warming up short and sweet here. I have picked up the topic EU data regulation. Sounds dull right? I had a far more crowd pleasing set of links for you about design fictions, but with recent discussions with colleagues I decided this is far more important.

Meet our curator of the month

Mia Muurimäki is a strategic designer and design director who works in our Helsinki office. She is an overall curious person who feels that it’s a great historical privilege to get to witness what will happen with digital everything. Her husband tells her that the refrigerator has been far more important to humankind than the internet, but she refuses to believe. She uses her sociology degree as an excuse to jump into any kinds of cultural rabbit holes. Her doctorate for Aalto ARTS Media lab was about the political aspects of contemporary art and the digitalisation of the museum institution. Probably 5 people have read that masterpiece. She’s married, has 2 almost grown-up sons, a tortoise and a dog.

Mia's picks

My miro & Luiza’s newsletter

By Mia & Luiza Jarovsky

Luiza’s article is excellent, but since it’s quite a slippery subject matter, I tried to make sense of it to myself with ChatGPT4. Take a look at my (our?) doodle in Miro of what these laws mean. I used the metaphor of “grandma’s garden” to make myself a little narrative through which I could actually understand and remember the different laws.

How to be a free European citizen online

By Rafa Font

This article is a bit annoying, but if you scroll to the end part you’ll find all the cool nerdy ways to avoid playing into the hands of big tech aka to use alternative tech that does not take you as a fool.

Introducing the foundation model transparency index

 By Stanford University

Talking about ChatGPT, I love the idea that Open AI would be open, but I guess it’s not. But hey, maybe in 2030 EU regulation has catched up with the development and all is good! 

Best inventions in 2023

 By Time Magazine

I love Time magazine’s annual Best Inventions series, which has been running for 20 years. This year has of course been super duper with the advent of your new friend that you cannot stop chatting with. Checkout the link to this years best.

Few facts about the curator

One thing you would recommend all designers to try out?

Be super curious. Study all kinds of infatuating things and keep on growing to many odd directions. Follow your own pattern.

How did you come into your current role?

Just following my own pattern. I’ve been always inspired by inventions, stuff that I’ve never seen before, be that odd thing in a flea market, an idea in science fiction, a new person, a new method or tool. I wish to understand and organise the things that I encounter, but also to give them the liberty to be unfathomable and unorganisable.

Biggest learning during your career

It’s sometimes difficult to keep a good self-confidence and self-worth when times are turbulent. But in the end, we have nothing else. So I guess - all you need is love for yourself and for your colleagues. Noticing others and communicating from love will make us all thrive. Ok, hippie tears here, but you know what I mean.

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