Top Finnish design from the 1950s, carefully thought-out lighting, colours and soft flooring for a friendly and cozy atmosphere, and beautiful windows bringing natural light and the city outside into the rooms. The Hanken building in Helsinki was created by a dream team, says Päivi Helander, an Olof Ottelin researcher and one of the guides when Hanken participated in Helsinki Design Week.

Quantum is a versatile meeting place that offers access to company and financial databases and allows for the handling of big data. Modern technology makes it possible to stream all classes and other events, as well as allowing for keeping up with real-time financial news. Quantum, made possible by donations, opened in February 2020.

Företag med modern teknik, till exempel för att rena vatten, kan kontrollera och forma vad som uppfattas som sanningen om vatten i byar på landsbygden på södra halvklotet. Det här leder till att de blir beroende av privata företag gällande vattenförsörjningen, konstaterar Yewondwossen Tesfaye i sin doktorsavhandling ”Neoliberalism in everyday governmentality: The conduct of rural drinkwater and rainwater practices”.

Companies equipped with modern technology, such as with the capability to purify water, can control and shape what is understood as the truth about water in rural villages in the global South. Through this, rural villages are made dependent on private companies related to water supply, Yewondwossen Tesfaye states in his doctoral dissertation “Neoliberalism in everyday governmentality: The conduct of rural drinking water and rainwater practices”.