Design Culture Events

Design Culture Studies X Hilma 20 Years – Feminist Border Crossings

Friday 11 October 2024, 1300–1630h

Marsio Stage, Otaniemi campus 

The event will be streamed online

The half-day seminar brings together academics from different disciplinary backgrounds and career stages to network and discuss the development of design studies as a field. It explores the significance of design in contemporary society from a feminist perspective, shedding light on its significance in the development of the field, and how design as a discipline and practice is part of those wider societal processes where humans, their identities and personal and collective experiences are given shape and meaning.  
 
The seminar also celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hilma, the network of ten gender studies units in Finland.  

The seminar is co-organized with the Design Culture Research Group of the School of Art, Design and Architecture and the Department of Management in the School of Business. 
 

PROGRAM

13.00 Opening words: Guy Julier & Annamari Vänskä, Co-leaders of the Design Culture Research group

13.10 Greetings from the Hilma network: Professor Leena-Maija Rossi, University of Lapland

13.15-14 Keynote by Professor Hazel Clark: Women's Wisdom – Re-framing the Study of Design and Fashion

14.15-15 Panel discussion: Futuring Feminist Design Culture Research 

Panelists:

• Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design)
• Professor of Gender Studies Leena-Maija Rossi (University of Lapland)
• Senior University Lecturer Saija Katila, Dept. of Management Studies (Aalto BIZ)  
• Dr. Louna Hakkarainen (Diaconia University of Applied Sciences)
• Professor of Practice in Fashion Practice Ervin Latimer (Aalto ARTS)

15-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-16.30 Speed dating event for PhD and Post Doc researchers

• Organizers: Kaisu Savola, Natalia Särmäkari, Ida-Sofia Tuomisto & Ushnah Amjad