Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
INUSE research group studies designer-user relations in sociotechnical change. Our studies examine the new ways by which design and use become interrelated and the potential that approaches that explicitly focus on this interrelation have for more equitable and sustainable change. In so doing we engage in participatory design, codesign, open and user innovation, open design, peer knowledge creation, user communities, citizen science, knowledge coproduction and user knowledge in organizations. Much of our design spaces are expanded into years or even decade long lines of research. Whilst short term interventions have their place in our repertoire, they are often not enough to change things or for understanding how designer–user relations can be reconfigured and what are the implications of doing this.
Our interest in users, and not just designers, is rooted in their important – and often underestimated- roles in sociotechnical change. Users adjust technology, invent new uses, innovate new practices, products and services, and perform many other activities that shape the paths that new technology takes. We study how they do so and experiment with new ways by which designer–user relations can be organized and orchestrated.
INUSE research is multidisciplinary simply because users’, consumers’, customers’, prosumers’ and citizens’ engagement with design and technology projects is studied in a range of fields. Our main points of reference reside in design research, (particularly human centred design and participatory design) innovation studies (particularly user innovation research and sustainability transitions research) and in Science & Technology Studies (particularly in social shaping of technology and practice theories therein).
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Mary Boss
- Department of Design - Project Employee
- Inuse - Project Employee
Person: Project research staff
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Andrea Botero
- Department of Design - Professor (Associate Professor)
- Inuse
Person: Professors, tenure track
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Education in Times of Multiple Crises: Pathways toward Gender Justice, Democracy, and Socio-environmentally Transformative Learning
Veintie, T. (Principal investigator), Räsänen, M. (Project Member), Pinto Torres, N. (Project Member), Rose, I. (Project Member) & Hohenthal, J. (Project Member)
01/01/2024 → 01/06/2028
Project: Other external funding: Other public funding
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-: CoCoon
Tenhunen, J. (Principal investigator)
01/01/2023 → 31/12/2025
Project: EU: Other research funding
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Designing with indigenous communities: participatory interventions to support resistance and intercultural communication in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Pinto Torres, N. (Project Member)
01/11/2020 → 30/11/2024
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
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Decolonisation and Participatory Design
Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Smith, R. C., Van Amstel, F. M. C. & Botero, A., 31 Jan 2025, Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design. Smith, R. C., Loi, D., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Huybrechts, L. & Simonsen, J. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge, p. 111-137 27 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Designing Together in Multi-Crisis Times : Effects of Mundane and Strategic Work with Indigenous Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Pinto Torres, N. & Nango, E., 28 Feb 2025, Designing Transformative Change : The Potential of Collaboration and Creativity in Crises. Proceedings of the Social Design Network’s Conference »On the Verge: Design in Times of Crisis«. Fehér, B. & Csernák, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, p. 197-220 24 p. (Design; vol. 68).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
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Reconciliation Through Digital Textiles
Perez-Bustos, T., Cortés-Rico, L. & Botero, A., 31 Jan 2025, Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design. Smith, R. C., Loi, D., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Huybrechts, L. & Simonsen, J. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge, p. 247-258 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Datasets
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Creatures Experimental Productions
Sáez Agurto, F. (Creator), Beavers, I. (Creator), Altarriba Bertran, F. (Creator), Botero, A. (Creator), Buschmann, J. (Creator), Camino, D. (Creator), Chewie (Creator), Choi, J.H.-J. (Creator), Davis, H. (Creator), Seaweed, D. O. (Creator), Dolejšová, M. (Creator), Hanafi, A. (Creator), Heitlinger, S. (Creator), Howse, M. (Creator), Knopp, T. (Creator), L'Huillier, N. (Creator), Light, A. (Creator), Lohmann, J. (Creator), Magic, M. (Creator), Miller, M. (Creator), Mitro, M. (Creator), Mujica, P. (Creator), Patterson, A. G. (Creator), Pokrywka, A. (Creator), Graham Raven, P. (Creator), Rudd, G. (Creator), Schubert, T. (Creator), Smrekar, M. (Creator), Šutić, G. (Creator), Thornton, C. (Creator), Wallis, L. (Creator), Wilde, D. (Creator) & Cathlow, R. (Creator), Zenodo, 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7460561, https://zenodo.org/record/7460690
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Prizes
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2024 Ziman Award: CreaTures (Creative Practices for Transformational Futures) project
Mattelmäki, T. (Recipient), Botero, A. (Recipient), Dolejšová, M. (Recipient), Lohmann, J. (Recipient), Hakio, K. (Recipient), Singhal, G. (Recipient), Vize, S. (Recipient) & Chun, N. (Recipient), Jul 2024
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
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ARTS Act of the Year
Salovaara, A. (Recipient) & Pouta, E. (Recipient), 2025
Prize: Award or honor granted for a specific work
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Education in Times of Multiple Crises: Pathways toward Gender Justice, Democracy, and Socio-environmentally Transformative Learning
Pinto Torres, N. (Recipient), Veintie, T. (Recipient), Hohenthal, J. (Recipient), Räsänen, M. (Recipient) & Rose, I. (Recipient), 8 Dec 2023
Prize: Granted funding (public project funding)
Activities
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European Computer Supported Collaborative Work Conference
Botero, A. (Member)
1 Jan 2025 → 31 Jul 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Chair of a conference, workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event
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ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Epp, F. A. (Member)
Jan 2025 → Jul 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Membership of a scientific or program committee of a conference or seminar
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Liesbeth van den Berg
Viitanen, J. (Host) & Savolainen, K. (Host)
24 Mar 2025Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
Press/Media
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Interview for a daily news program about consumer products' instruction manuals's usability problems.
22/11/2023
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
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Service design contributes to ensuring the quality and suitability of digital services
22/03/2023
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
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Lapinlahti hospital: a very short introduction to a very special place
Nader, J., Nader Sayun, M. & Berglund, E.
15/03/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Social media activity