Doctor of Arts (Art & Design), 2016.
Postdoctoral researcher, writer, editor.
INUSE Users and Innovation Research Group.

I study peer-to-peer open design activist groups (digital fabrication maker communities in Fab Labs and makerspaces). I also examine how people collaborate on design work in high-expertise fields (design-driven material innovation for a Circular Economy). I mainly use Science & Technology Studies positioning and Symbolic Interactionism as an analytical framework. My main methods are ethnography and participant/non-participant observation in fieldwork. My background is in Design-for-Sustainability. I especially foreground socio-environmental issues when observing what social groups do when they form, define objectives and try to reach them. I also teach sustainable Product-Service System design and give lectures on open design and maker culture in design schools worldwide.

My interests include urban activism, design activism, citizen participation in production, social and environmental justice, alternative economies, narrative writing and photography.

My books include Making Sustainability (doctoral dissertation, Aalto ARTS, 2016), Changing Helsinki? (Nemo, 2015), Product-Service System Design for Sustainability (Greenleaf, 2014).
My current projects are CODO (Getting collaborative design done) (Academy of Finland); LeNSin (International Learning Network on Sustainability) (Erasmus+); Trash2Cash (H2020).