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Katri-Liisa Pulkkinen is a doctoral candidate in the Land Use Planning Group, Department of Built Environment. In her forthcoming doctoral thesis, she studies bottom-up initiated change dynamics and successful strategies of citizen democracy in communities. She also lectures on and develops teaching of systems thinking, sustainability, and urban challenges. With her work, she seeks to create possibilities for interdisciplinary co-creation and to increase awareness, action, and impact towards a more sustainable future. In addition to Aalto WiTLAB, she also works in Aalto ENG SmartLand (Smart land use policy for sustainable urbanization), an SRC funded research project.