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Back to Jamming! Global Service Jam Turku 2013 Recap

By Hosts

Service Jam Turku—We’re back to jamming—Global GovJam 2013 style! Let’s rewind to March 2013 and celebrate the energy of Global Service Jam 2013, where we levelled up with two unique jams: Service Jam Turku and Silent Jam Turku. And yes… we did it all again, right on time!

Flashback to February 24, 2012: creators, designers, and service-minded thinkers from around the world gathered to explore new ways of solving problems through a design-based, hands-on approach. In true Jam spirit—playful, experimental, collaborative—teams had 48 hours to create brand-new service concepts inspired by the global theme “Hidden Treasure.” By Sunday at 3pm, prototypes were released to the world.

And we’re not stopping. The Jam spirit keeps rolling—all the way to Global Sustainability Jam 2013.
Wherever you’ll be, we can’t wait to jam with you again.

Stay tuned. Stay creative. Stay jamming!

Hello Jammers!

By Hosts

Welcome to Jam Turku!—and, Welcome to the idea of Global Jamming… just 48 hours to save the planet.

Imagine a Jam session in music. You come together, bringing your instruments, your skills, your open mind. Someone sets up a theme, and you start to Jam around it. You don’t overanalyse it, you don’t talk it to death, you Jam. You bounce your ideas off other people, and play around with what comes back. Together, you build something which none of you could have built alone. And at the same time, you are learning new ideas, discovering more about how you work and whom you best work with, sharpening your skills, and having a great time. And who knows, maybe there are one or two ideas there which might make it to the next album. Or maybe you Jammed so well, you decide to form a band…

The Global Jam works in just the same way. But it’s not music you are Jamming—it’s change. You’ll be working with people you might never have met before, bouncing ideas off one another and building on what bounces back. People all over the world are Jamming around the same Theme, sharing insights and support globally. And it’s not just talking—you are here to turn your ideas into a concrete design, prototype and plan of action which you or somebody else might want to make real.

Can you prototype and plan it in a way that someone could go out and make it real, knowing what resources they would need, what they should do, and who they should talk to? That’s the challenge of the Jam.

Interested to join?  Any more questions… email us at registration@jamturku.fi