Collaborative and Industrial Design

Severi Uusitalo

Courses: Emerging Designs and Emerging Designs II. Head of CoID
Potrait of Associate professor Severi Uusitalo

Building on an extensive background in design in the industry, Severi Uusitalo focuses on design cognition and the role of creativity in it. This includes the role of assistive technologies in design. In teaching of his courses, the focus is on building students' designerly metacognition through reflection with the help of relevant design theory. The objective is for the student to be capable of coping with the developments of the future.

Courses

ED-course I&II, AMRI-project, 2023-2024

Emerging Designs

The course will enhance students' design understanding and skills through lectures and projects, emphasizing creativity and practical application with input from industry professionals.

Collaborative and Industrial Design
Solar cells laminated on the back side of textiles in the Sun-Powered Textiles project

From Concepts to Designs*

* RE-NAMED TO EMERGING DESIGNS II FOR CLARITY, STARTING 2024-25 STUDY YEAR
The course has a lecture and workshop series, that supports a team design projects starting from an existing design concept which then is iteratively developed to more mature design. Students will use various physical and digital models to develop and evaluate projet.

Collaborative and Industrial Design
design scenario showing heart beats and instruction

Emerging Designs II

During the course, students will apply design to build knowledge of the conceptual propositions, by performing a validation of the concept or a key feature of it.

Collaborative and Industrial Design

Latest publications

”Clay to Play With”: Generative AI Tools in UX and Industrial Design Practice

Severi Uusitalo, Antti Salovaara, Tero Jokela, Marja Salmimaa 2024 DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Creative collaboration with interactive evolutionary algorithms: a reflective exploratory design study

Severi Uusitalo, Anna Kantosalo, Antti Salovaara, Tapio Takala, Christian Guckelsberger 2024 Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Evolumination - diversity of the species at Dutch Design Week

Kane Borg, Tina Cerpnjak, Sami Markkula, Severi Uusitalo 2023

Accessible magnetic resonance imaging – AMRI: Designing a mobile lifesaver / Designs for a Cooler Planet

Ilkka Laakso, Lauri Palva, Masoud Sharifian Mazraehmollaei, Raimo Sepponen, Severi Uusitalo, Erika Renedo Illarregi, Niilo Kämäräinen 2023

Scaling the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Through Design Research

Markus Ahola, Severi Uusitalo, Lauri Palva, Raimo Sepponen 2022 Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V

Co-creative Product Design with Interactive Evolutionary Algorithms: A Practice-Based Reflection

Severi Uusitalo, Anna Kantosalo, Antti Salovaara, Tapio Takala, Christian Guckelsberger 2022 Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design - 11th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2022, Held as Part of EvoStar 2022, Proceedings

Multidisciplinary knowledge creation: Case AMRI

Severi Uusitalo 2022 Designing Change : New Opportunities for Organisations

Research Forum

Severi Uusitalo 2022

Tutkimustori

Teija Vainio, Severi Uusitalo 2022

Yhteistyömalliehdotus

Tarja-Kaarina Laamanen, Jouni Silfver, Juha Ainoa, Severi Uusitalo, Pirjo Seddiki, Marjo Suviranta, Tarmo Karhu, Sami Kauppinen, Päivi Tossavainen, Katri Konttinen, Piia Rytilahti, Ari Känkänen 2021 Finnish Design Academy

Student Service Design Challenge 2020 Finalist Exhibition

Jooeun Park, Shreya Sood, Bohan Sun, Qianfei Gu, Zhengshuang Han, Nuria Solsona Caba, Severi Uusitalo 2020
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