Pรคivi Tahkokallio
Pรคivi Tahkokallio is the Founder and CEO of Tahkokallio Design+, a strategic design agency operating from the Arctic north in Finland.
With her track record in strategic and social design Pรคivi has been called the Mother of Arctic Design, a design approach to support sustainable development of the Arctic, more topical than ever at the time when Europe has set an objective to become climate neutral by 2050. We know the Arctic is warming two times faster than the rest of the world, and design is an effective tool for transformation, be it environmental or social.
Pรคivi is the past President of BEDA, The Bureau of the European Design Associations with 53 members in 27 countries in Europe. As President Pรคivi was leading the design policy work in Europe, with climate change, digitalisation and values as key topics, especially relevant in BEDAโs input related to the New European Bauhaus initiative, an initiative with the strongest co-design approach in the European Commissionโs history.
Pรคivi has acted as a jury member of international design competitions, with Compasso dโOro, DesignEuropa, German Design Award, Taiwan International Student Design Awards, The One Show and Turkey Design Awards amongst them.
Pรคivi is Fellow of Royal Society of Arts in the UK, FRSA, and a Committee Member of Arctic Society of Finland.