Last week Kari-Hans was visiting the Faculty of Art and Design of the UBA -Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina; as guest in their XX Jornadas de investigación de la UBA 2005 (Research days).

This visit was supported by the Finnish embassy in Buenos Aires; thanks to the Kind invitation of Profesor Beatiz Galan who is responsable for the Design Research area in the faculty of Arts and Design. Profesor Galan has a very nice repositore of design projects and cases of "Design with a social agenda"; that she has been working with her students in the past years since Argentinian economical crisis. The website of her course on theory and practice of design is very nice and offers a lot of resources for design research (in spanish only).

Next spring we will also have a visitor from that faculty here in Helsinki, Martin Groisman, coordinator of the PADD- Programa de Actualizacion en Diseño Digital will come in May. He got a CIMO scolarship to visit us and give a workshop for the MA students.

This visits and the exchange with Argentina are the result of a collaboration agreement we innitiated with our first visit to Argentina in 2003, some notes of what has been done can be seen here