Transdisciplinary design research for sustainable futures!

Associate Professor, Co-Innovating for Circular Solutions

mikko.jalas[at]aalto.fi

Mikko Jalas is an Associate professor of Co-Innovating for Circular Solutions. His research interests include sustainable consumption, time use and societal rhythms, as well as climate change mitigation and design for sustainability transformations.

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Senior Lecturer

tatu.marttila[at]aalto.fi

I'm a design teacher and researcher interested in how design activities can become an effectual part in facilitating sustainability transitions. With a background in industrial and strategic design and in new media, I'm currently working as a senior lecturer on Design for Sustainability at Department of Design in Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

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Postdoctoral researcher

katie.berns[at]aalto.fi

Katie is a postdoctoral researcher working on a European project to make carbon emissions data accessible and actionable for policymakers and communities. Her work bridges climate science and urban policymaking, designing tools that drive informed, inclusive climate action.

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Postdoctoral researcher

hella.hernberg[at]aalto.fi

Hella Hernberg is an architect and postdoctoral researcher striving for resource wisdom and socio-ecological sustainability in urban and built environments. Her research focuses on the intermediation of complex socio-political processes to advance the care and revitalization of existing spaces and properties as part of urban sustainability transformations.

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Postdoctoral researcher

gloria.lauterbach[at]aalto.fi

Gloria Lauterbach is an artistic researcher with a PhD in Arts from Aalto University. Gloria specializes on urban habitation strategies in times of polycrisis in general and the question on how to reconceptualize anthropogenic infrastructures (such as lighting infrastructures) in particular.

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Postdoctoral researcher

sini.numminen[at]aalto.fi

Sini is an Academy Research Fellow, working at NODUS with energy justice, energy markets and and energy transition issues. Sini holds a D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in Engineering Physics.

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Doctoral researcher

kata.fodor[at]aalto.fi

Kata is an architect whose PhD addresses how food system challenges can be addressed by design, and how spatial practitioners can meaningfully contribute to the facilitation of sustainable diets.

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Doctoral researcher

talvikki.kollmann[at]aalto.fi

Talvikki’s doctoral research explores how knowledge work is organized in post pandemic Finland. By exploring the hybrid work practices and experiences of Finnish knowledge workers, she uncovers what work designs emerge and will be needed long-term.

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Doctoral researcher

maria.ferreiralitowtschenko[at]aalto.fi

Maria Ferreira's research focuses on design in the public sector, especially in experimental institutional forms like public innovation labs. The aim is to understand the interactions and collaborations between various actors seeking to influence governance, particularly in the Latin American context.

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Doctoral researcher

sonja.nielsen[at]aalto.fi

Sonja’s dissertation critically examines and further develops knowledge co-production methods in environmental governance, empirically focusing on the Transition Arena method in Finland. She is especially interested in understanding how social impacts emerge in these settings and how they connect to environmental policy processes as participatory experiments.

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Doctoral researcher

tomi.rantanen[at]aalto.fi

Tomi Rantanen’s research is focused on provoking gender equality transitions in music. He aims to discover how systemic design and transition arenas can facilitate change towards feminist futures.

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Doctoral researcher

delphine.rumo[at]aalto.fi

Delphine Rumo's doctoral research focuses on sustainable construction. In her research, she investigates communities of practice that restructure conventional economic spaces towards post-development economies.

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Doctoral researcher

saga.santala[at]aalto.fi

Saga-Sofia Santala's interdisciplinary doctoral research explores the potential of engaging close social communities in creating transitions towards more sustainable mobility practices. Through constructive design research in citizens' everyday lives, it demonstrates ways in which social communities shape (un)sustainable mobility practices and draws implications for socially informed mobility intervention design.

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Doctoral researcher

tommi.vasko[at]aalto.fi

Tommi Vasko is a researcher, designer, and organizer whose doctoral research examines live action role-playing in the context of the politics of sustainability transitions.

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