Satu Lähteenoja is a postdoctoral researcher. She studies and experiments sustainability transformations and the possibilities of co-design in advancing them. In addition to working at Aalto University, she studies the same topics in the think tank Demos Helsinki.

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Eeva Houtbeckers’ postdoctoral research project is funded by Nessling Foundation and Kone Foundation. Her research is an ethnography on post-growth economy, work and livelihoods in the global North inspired by ecofeminist thinking. She focuses on forest, land and self-sufficiency debates. 

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Michael Lettenmeier is interested in the implications of one-planet lifestyles for households, business and society, and for the transition to an eco-welfare state. He has developed the 8 tonnes resource cap for sustainable lifestyles, the 1.5-degree lifestyles concepts and several footprint calculators for lifestyles.

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Emilija Veselova is developing a theoretical and methodological framework for involving nonhuman stakeholders in collaborative and participatory design processes. She has proposed a bioinclusive approach to co-design and, currently, she researches about which nonhuman entities and structural elements are relevant in a project. 

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Philip Hector’s doctoral research is at the intersection of participatory design, social movement studies, STS and sustainable consumption. The objective of his project is to better understand how repair and DIY grassroots initiatives create alternative production and consumption infrastructures and who gets to participate in these processes. 

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Luisa Mok’s doctoral research integrating transitions theories and strategic design studies explores strategic design for the short-term future in transitions pathways. She focuses on problems inherent in the near future that have to be progressively overcome before they lead to critical situations that hamper systems transitions. Luisa is now teaching in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

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Elif Erdoğan Öztekin focuses on the multidimensional learning processes of transitions in her PhD research across four cases of eco-settlements in Europe. Her research relates to design for sustainability transitions, transdisciplinary research, and participatory methods of knowledge production.

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Cindy Kohtala studies peer production: materialist activists exploring peer-to-peer ways to design and produce locally and more sustainably. Her research focuses especially on fab labs and makerspaces, using Science & Technology Studies frameworks. 

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Elise Hodson has a PhD in Communication & Culture (York University) and masters degrees in museum studies (University of Toronto) and design history (Bard Graduate Center). Her doctoral work focused on distributed authorship in contemporary design practice and global production. Elise’s research interests include global design history and commodity studies; design economies and the value of design; design and social innovation; and design museums and museology. Prior to coming to Aalto University, Elise was Chair of the School of Design at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada.

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