NODUS researcher Gloria Lauterbach moderates a talk with Marjut Kauppinen and Henrika Pihlajaniemi.

NODUS researcher Hella Hernberg discusses neglected spaces with Aku Vainikainen.

NODUS researcher Tommi Vasko and Ola Uhrqvist discusses how serious games can help us understand sustainability problems and how they might be used in policy-making.

NODUS leader Idil Gaziulusoy and Anu Seisto (VTT) discusses what are Experiental Futures and why they matter.

Janne I. Hukkinen and Sara Lindeman discusses the role of innovation during polycrisis.

In this event, we will discuss how urban planning homogenizes cities, what impacts this has and what can be done about it.

In this NODUS Talks event, we talk about the production-consumption system of fashion.

Come listen to NODUS researcher Gloria Lauterbach, and guests discuss changing the gaze in the climate crisis era.

NODUS researcher Mikko Jalas and climate expert Susanna Kankaanpää discuss Biochar In the City?

Michael Lettenmeier and Reet Aus take us on a deep dive to 1.5-Degree Lifestyles

Idil Gaziulusoy and Tapio Pesola converse parenthood in the times fo climate change

NODUS researcher Hella Hernberg and Elina Alatalo discuss mediating vacant spaces.

EMILIJA VESELOVA 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.

ASLIHAN OGUZ 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.

CINDY KOHTALA will introduce open design: what it is, who does it, who researches it, and how it connects to sustainability.

 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.




KATA FODOR 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.

İDİL GAZİULUSOY shares her perspectives on how design businesses can approach sustainability strategically and what’s beyond “sustainability-as-usual.”

MILOŠ MLADENOVIĆ 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 will be discussing activism, its meaning, and how to activate social change.





MERI LÖYTTYNIEMI will be presenting about implementing sustainability within higher education and how to promote topics like degrowth in an organization like Aalto University. EEVA HOUTBECKERS focuses on experiences of promoting degrowth in various instances since 2016.

DR. MICHAEL LETTENMEIER will speak about what 1.5-degree lifestyles will look like and how the transition towards them could be accelerated. HANNA-REETTA LUUKKAINEN’s presentation is titled The Butterfly Effect – Using Customer Data as a Tool to Address Climate Change.