NODUS TALKS Caring for Neglected Spaces
Presentations and panel discussion with Hella Hernberg and Aku Vainikainen.
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NODUS TALKS series is organized by the NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group of Aalto University, bringing together researchers and practitioners on topics relevant to design, innovation and sustainability.
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NODUS TALKS Serious Games for Sustainable Futures
Presentations and panel discussion with Tommi Vasko and Ola Uhrqvist.
NODUS TALKS Experiential Futures – What? Why? How?
Presentations and panel discussion with İdil Gaziulusoy and Anu Seisto.
NODUS TALKS Innovation during Polycrisis
Presentations and panel discussion with Janne I. Hukkinen and Sara Lindeman
NODUS TALKS The Diverse City
Hossam Hewidy and Katja Lindroos discuss how urban planning homogenizes cities, what impacts this has and what can be done about it. Curated by Guy Julier.
NODUS TALKS The Invisibilities in the Production-Consumption System of Fashion
Natalia Moreira and Paula Sarsama
NODUS TALKS Changing the Gaze in the Climate Crisis Era
NODUS TALKS series is organized by the NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group of Aalto University, bringing together researchers and practitioners on topics relevant to design, innovation and sustainability. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion, both held in English.
NODUS TALKS Biochar. In the city?
NODUS TALKS series is organized by the NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group of Aalto University, bringing together researchers and practitioners on topics relevant to design, innovation and sustainability. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion, both held in English.
NODUS TALKS 1.5-Degree Lifestyles
NODUS TALKS series is organized by the NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group of Aalto University, bringing together researchers and practitioners on topics relevant to design, innovation and sustainability. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion, both held in English.
NODUS TALKS Parenting and Climate Change
İdil Gaziulusoy and Tapio Pesola converse parenthood in the times of climate change and climate activism as a parent.
NODUS TALKS Mediating Vacant Spaces
Hella Hernberg and Elina Alatalo converse vacant spaces, mediation of spatial transformations and socio-ecologically sustainable spatial practices.
NODUSTalks Multispecies Sustainability
EMILIJA VESELOVA is a doctoral candidate at NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group. In this talk, Emilija will present her research on how natural nonhumans, such as animals, insects, soil, different ecosystems, can be included and considered as important stakeholders in design, planning and decision making processes.
ELISA VAINIO is working as a Project Manager at the Baltic Sea Action Group focusing on regenerative agriculture and international soil collaboration. In her presentation, she will present the Carbon Action platform which develops and researches ways of accelerating soil carbon sequestration and verifying the results scientifically.
NODUSTalks Food Sovereignty Is People's Sovereignty
ASLIHAN OGUZ is a designer, food entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster and independent researcher focusing on sustainable food systems, feminist food studies and feminist systems thinking. She will introduce what food sovereignty means, how and why this movement started, its current position and how it connects to a new food system narrative, which is part of the research she is currently building.
RUBY VAN DER WEKKEN is a producing member of Oma maa cooperative and considers herself a member of the Global Justice movement. In her presentation she will talk about Oma maa's peoples process around agriculture and how this for Oma maa relates to change - in thought and in practice.
NODUS TALKS Open Design in a Global Health Crisis
CINDY KOHTALA is Postdoctoral Researcher in Aalto University, Department of Design. She studies fab labs and maker culture and how sustainability is represented in their new prosumption practices and sociotechnical utopias. Her presentation will introduce open design: what it is, who does it, who researches it, and how it connects to sustainability.
DAVID CUARTIELLES RUIZ is a teacher and researcher of interaction design at Malmö University, Sweden, exploring the co-creation of socio-technical platforms.
CÉSAR GARCÍA SÁEZ is an independent researcher specialised in maker culture and digital fabrication, and publisher/producer of the La Hora Maker podcast.
David and César will talk about the Coronavirusmakers open design platform they helped initiate and maintain, for the collaborative production and distribution of PPE in Spain starting in March 2020.
NODUS TALKS Accommodating Urban Food Futures
KATA FODOR is an architect and doctoral researcher at Aalto University, focusing on the spatial preconditions/implications of sustainable urban food systems. She will discuss the changing spatial logics embedded in 21st century food systems, as well as how new hybrid food spaces may facilitate more sustainable urban food practices.
LOUIS POHL is a social architect and founder of the Foodhall Project and the National Food Service UK. The National Food Service is a new public service aiming to eliminate food insecurity and tackle the interconnected issues of social isolation and food waste by creating new experimental food typologies. His talk will explore how prototypes have responded during Covid-19 and how new public spaces can serve as a platform to create new civic relationships after Covid-19.
NODUS TALKS Business of Design & Sustainability: Jumping on Board or Pushing Off the Cliff?
İDİL GAZİULUSOY is Professor of Sustainable Design and Leader of NODUS Research Group in Aalto University. In her talk she is going to share her perspectives on how design businesses can approach sustainability strategically and what’s beyond “sustainability-as-usual.”
ZEYNEP FALAY von FLITTNER is the design director and partner in leading service design and customer experience consultancy, Hellon. In her talk, she will talk about the impact of sustainability on design consultancies and reflect on the challenges of designers who are trying to do “good" within business limitations.
NODUS TALKS Civil Dissent & Sustainability
MILOŠ MLADENOVIĆ is a human and engineer, trying to understand and share knowledge about urban mobility systems. His talk titled "The Anarchist Cookbook and Imaginaries of Self-Driving Vehicle Technology" will explore contrasting official imaginaries of self-driving vehicle technology with the multitude of anticipated civil disobedience cases to unpack fundamental moral challenges that could further depoliticize technological (non)-development.
ARTO SIVONEN is the founder of Måndag, a marketing designer and an urban activist. In his talk titled, "Activism, what does that really mean?" Sivonen will be discussing activism, its meaning, and how to activate social change.
NODUS TALKS Why (not) Give Up? Sustainability Transformations & Degrowth
MERI LÖYTTYNIEMI is a solution-oriented change agent leading Aalto University's Sustainability team. She will be presenting about implementing sustainability within higher education and how to promote topics like degrowth in an organization like Aalto University.
EEVA HOUTBECKERS is a postdoctoral researcher who studies postgrowth work and livelihoods in the global North and an activist in the degrowth movement. Her presentation focuses on experiences of promoting degrowth in various instances since 2016.
NODUS TALKS 1.5 Degree Lifestyles
DR. MICHAEL LETTENMEIER is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Design at Aalto University. He is interested in the implications of one-planet lifestyles for households, business and society, and for the transition to an eco-welfare state. He will speak about what 1.5-degree lifestyles will look like and how the transition towards them could be accelerated.
HANNA-REETTA LUUKKAINEN is the Head of Customer Data and Loyalty Services at Kesko. Her presentation is titled The Butterfly Effect – Using Customer Data as a Tool to Address Climate Change.
NODUS TALKS Creative Methods for Futures Inquiry & Social Transformation
MERJA RYÖPPY is an actor and a PhD research fellow at the University of Southern Denmark and a visiting researcher at Aalto University. She employs participatory theatre methods in design processes to understand the ongoing social and material relations among people, products and objects.
AMOS TAYLOR is a futurist and researcher at Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. His research considers the coming transformations for the next 100 years and the ethical decisions that arise for society and the planet. His work explores highly participatory and creative approaches to engage alternative futures.
NODUS TALKS Waste Not, Want Not: Sustainable Food Practices
SEONA CANDY is a researcher in sustainable food and urban systems at the Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (Urbaria) at the University of Helsinki. She will talk about how addressing food waste could be a catalyst for broader food systems sustainability if undertaken with a deep transformation approach.
CARLOS HENRIQUES studied hospitality management and quickly discovered his passion for cooking. He is one of the co-founders of Restaurant Nolla, Helsinki’s first zero-waste restaurant. He will be sharing his perspective on sustainable practices and how to start.
NODUS TALKS Care and Participatory Design
ANGELA MORIGGI is External Researcher at Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) and a Kone Foundation grantee. She will talk about the link between care ethics and sustainability transformations, and explain how care principles inspired her participatory action research approach, working with nature-based entrepreneurs in Finland.
PAULIINA SEPPÄLÄ is a social scientist and an entrepreneur, who has been involved in launching and developing several events and platforms that facilitate participatory society, from a crowdfunding platform to a neighborhood platform. She has co-founded the NGO Yhteismaa and the company Mesenaatti.me. She will speak about organic co-creation and neighborhoods of care. The event is free but please register as seats are limited.
NODUS TALKS Tools for Sustainability Transitions
DR. SAMPSA HYYSALO is professor of co-design at Aalto University, Department of Design. Sampsa’s
research and teaching interests are in co-design and user involvement in sustainable sociotechnical change. He will present a mid-range pathway creation toolset which helps diverse participants to codesign changes toward
transition goals in areas such as energy, biodiversity and aquatic resource use.
JUHA KRONQVIST is a lead service designer at Hellon, a design agency challenging traditional management consulting with a human-centered focus on business and leadership. He will present the Nordic Urban Mobility game, a tool for discovering future paths and planning cross-industry collaboration. The game was developed in collaboration with Nordic Innovation.
NODUS TALKS Aesthetic Sustainability
DR. SANNA LEHTINEN is Research Fellow at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science HELSUS (University of Helsinki) and the President of the Finnish Society for Aesthetics. She will talk about the concept of aesthetic sustainability and how it can increase our understanding of experiential quality and sustainable futures.
NEMO architects, Maria and Jussi Laine, is a young Helsinki-based architectural practice working on sustainable architecture and design in the present market. NEMO will present their concepts for creating public awareness of sustainable aesthetics.
NODUS TALKS Futures & Design: Transforming Our Now for Sustainability
DR. MIKKO DUFVA is Sitra’s leading foresight specialist and the chairperson of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies. He will talk about the need for utopias, societal imagination and experiencing futures in times of transformation.
DR. İDİL GAZİULUSOY is a design researcher and a sustainability scientist. She is Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design and Leader of NODUS Research Group at Aalto University. Her talk is about how to design experiences of sustainable futures as an aid for democratic deliberation.
NODUS TALKS Design & Sustainability Transitions: Theory, Practice, Education
TERRY IRWIN is a professor and former Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. In May she stepped down to launch a new “CMU Institute for Transition Design” that will focus on research, teaching and collaboration with colleagues in other universities working in the area of designing for transition.
İDİL GAZİULUSOY is Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design at the Aalto School of Art, Design and Architecture and leader of NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group. Idil is an expert in design for sustainability transitions particularly focusing on business transformation and urban transitions to address climate change.
SAMPSA HYYSALO is professor of co-design at the Aalto School of Art, Design and Architecture. Sampsa’s research interests are in codesign and user involvement in innovation and sociotechnical change.
ELİF ÖZTEKİN is doing her doctoral studies in NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group at Aalto University Department of Design. She inquires into community-led eco-settlements and their learning networks.
NODUS TALKS Transforming Society: Pilots, Experiments, Prototypes
MARCO STEINBERG is an architect and the founder of Snowcone and Haystack, a Helsinki based strategic design practice. In his talk, he will take a critical stance on the idea of pilots, calling for more transformative strategies in our models of governance.
RAMIA MAZÉ is Professor of New Frontiers in Design at Aalto, leading its Design for Government course. She will talk about design roles and design issues within government, particularly given the contemporary expansion of the ‘instruments’ of governance including pilots.
NODUS TALK Urban Activist Design
DR. MIKKO DUFVA is Sitra’s leading foresight specialist and the chairperson of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies. He will talk about the need for utopias, societal imagination and experiencing futures in times of transformation.
DR. İDİL GAZİULUSOY is a design researcher and a sustainability scientist. She is Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design and Leader of NODUS Research Group at Aalto University. Her talk is about how to design experiences of sustainable futures as an aid for democratic deliberation.
NODUS TALKS Social Responsibility in Design
KAISU SAVOLA is a design historian and doctoral candidate at Aalto University. Her research focuses on moral, social and political values in design and its history. She will talk about Finnish design students in the 1960s and their wish to ’save the world’.
NICOLAS VON FLITTNER is a Product Design Lead at M4ID, a social impact company working with under-represented communities. In his talk he will share the experiences on utilising design methods to improve the maternal and newborn health services in rural India.
NODUS TALKS Tiny Houses: Fair Living?
PHILIP HECTOR is a doctoral candidate in the NODUS research group at Aalto University, focusing on material activism such as sites for DIY and repair activities. His talk will focus on developments enabling the tiny house movement, as well as their manifestations and claims.
PETRI KANGASSALO is a landscape architect and coordinator of urban environmental organization at Dodo’s urban planning group. He will talk about their tiny house project, Helsinki Design Week tiny house fair & Pasila rail yard vision where tiny houses are an important theme.
NODUS TALKS Food System Transformation
SEONA CANDY is a researcher of sustainable food and urban systems at the University of Helsinki. She will talk about the challenges related to feeding cities both now and in the future and opportunities for sustainable and resilient urban food system transformation.
HEIDI UPPA is a creative and designer working with food, concepts and experiences. She is one of the founding members of the Keru community fridge (Keru-yhteisöjääkaappi). In her talk she will present her latest projects related to food design and communication.
NODUS TALKS Sustainable Urban Mobility
MILOS MLADENOVIC is Assistant Professor in the Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering group at Aalto University. He will talk about the design and governance of emerging mobility technologies such as self driving vehicles.
MARI FLINK is the director of sales and customer experience in HSL, the public transport authority of Helsinki Region. In her presentation she will talk about HSL activities in open data and Mobility as a service (MaaS).
NODUS TALKS Design in Sustainability Transitions
İDİL GAZIULUSOY is Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design and Leader of NODUS Sustainable Design Research Group at Aalto University. She is a sustainability scientist and a design researcher interested in the intersection of design and sustainability transitions. The event is free but please register as seats are limited
ZEYNEP FALAY von FLITTNER is the design director and partner at Hellon, one of Finland’s leading service design agencies and founding member of Transition Design Finland Collective. She will talk about the transition design project she has done with Finnish Prime Minister’s Office.
NODUS TALKS Learning Sustainability
TATU MARTTILA is a researcher and lecturer in sustainable design, with an interest in how future design professionals can be a part in facilitating sustainable change. He will focus on the challenges and potential of the master degree program “Creative Sustainability”.
PINJA SIPARI is an environmental educator specialized in climate change education and garden education. She will tell about her experiences of training teachers on climate change issues and describe how school gardening can be part of sustainability education.
NODUS TALKS Complementary Currencies
JENNI HUTTUNEN is a designer and researcher affiliated with Aalto School of Electrical Engineering. Her research interest lays in creating economically resilient, sustainable futures through new valuation systems such as complementary currencies.
JOONAS PEKKANEN is a citizen activist turned employee interested in developing Open Democracy. Being Head of ICT Development for the City of Helsinki’s culture and leisure sector, he is collaborating with Jenni on a prospective local currency project for the City of Helsinki.
NODUS TALKS Alternative Economies
EEVA HOUTBECKERS, a postdoc researcher af liated with the Design Department at Aalto University, does research on post-growth work in the global North. She will talk about diverse economies as a tool to understand that there are versatile ways to organize economies.
RUBY VAN DER WEKKEN considers herself a member of the global justice movement, and is an active participant of Helsinki Timebank, Oma Maa food cooperative and Commons. . She will talk about commoning as a way towards an economy based on people’s need.
NODUS TALKS Design + Governance
RAMIA MAZÉ is Professor of New Frontiers in Design at Aalto Univeristy, specializing in participatory approaches to design for systems and products that alter social practices and public life. She will consider critical aspects of design and participation in governance.
JUHA KRONQVIST is lead service designer at Hellon and has worked on multiple public sector projects with clients such as the City of Helsinki. In his talk he will share some reflections on the role of design in creating better public services.
NODUS TALKS Design + Urban Activism
EEVA BERGLUND is Adjunct professor in the Department of Design at Aalto University. Having a background in social anthropology, she teaches and writes on issues to do with society and the environment, whilst participating in and trying to better understand urban activism.
PAULIINA JALONEN is an urban activist who has recently turned to training and peer-learning in connection with activism for social change. She has been a Helsinki organiser of the Jane’s Walk festival and is currently co-organising Espoo Mini Maker Faire in Iso Omena.
NODUS TALKS Food for one planet
MICHAEL LETTENMEIER is finalizing his PhD thesis at Aalto University, focusing on sustainable lifestyles and how to make them happen. He has developed the 8 tonnes material footprint benchmark for one-planet lifestyles and its applications in household consumption and design.
OULA ANTERE is an Aalto University alumnus and the CEO of ResQ Club, an app where urban people can purchase surplus food from restaurants. He strives to create ways of consuming that are not only sustainable but better and easier than anything else on he market.
NODUS TALKS Sustainable Fashion + New Business Thinking
KIRSI NIINIMÄKI is an Associate Professor in Fashion research at Aalto University. Her research focuses on holistic understanding of sustainable fashion and textile fields and connections between design, manufacturing, business models and consumption.
ANNIINA NURMI is a sustainable fashion specialist, sharing her knowledge about sustainable fashion through writing, teaching and consulting. She is also developing a "clothing as a service system" which brings new sharing economy business models to the fashion industry.
NODUS TALKS Open Design. Open Society?
CINDY KOHTALA is a Postdoctoral researcher in Aalto University, who has examined how digital fabrication communities in FabLabs and makerspaces address environmental issues. Open Design relates to both designing things as well as communities: self-organizing groups who decide what to design and how to do it.
JASON SELVARAJAN has studied Environmental Engineering. His water recycling and energy recovering shower filtration system called Showerloop examplifies open hardware that can be adapted almost anywhere. Its various prototypes have been displayed in events such as OSCE Days Helsinki or POC21 near Paris, France.
NODUS TALKS Caring for the Immaterial
MIKKO JALAS is Professor of Practice at Aalto University and head of the Creative Sustainability program. Next to a focus on renewable energy technologies, his research interest lies in the different experiences of time and its meaning for sustainability. In his talk Mikko will focus on the time-intense, dedicated care for wooden boats.
HEIKKI HÄYHÄ is a lecturer in conservation at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. Engaging with wooden boats first through a self-built Optimist-dinghy, which never turned to be water tight, he currently serves at boards such as the committee for classic boats at the Helsingfors Segel Sällskap.
NODUS TALKS The dividend of sustainable design
PEKKA MURTO is a doctoral candidate in Aalto University Department of Design who has studied design management and sustainable design in complex and networked product development. In this talk, he shows how seemingly ’wrong’ design processes in a shipbuilding project led to the right outcomes from the perspective of good design.
JUTTA NUORTILA-JOKINEN is an Associate Professor in LUT, is a sustainability expert advocating eco-design of products, processes and services. Having worked for UPM and as an independent consultant, she will consider the challenges and rewards of implementing sustainable business ideas.
NODUS TALKS Energy citizens open knowledge
SAMPSA HYYSALO is Associate Professor in Co-Design at Aalto University with a research focus on longitudinal studies of designer-user relations in technology projects. His talk examines the Internet based peer-to-peer discussion forums on heat pumps and how they have helped the diffusion of this technology.
LILLI LINKOLA is a sustainability expert advocating circular economy, renewable energies and open knowledge. Having worked on projects for Sitra, the Green Building Council and the City of Helsinki, she will consider the role of open data in the energy transition in her talk.
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