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Postdoctoral Researcher
Research activity per year
Dr Cindy Kohtala is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Design, INUSE Users and Innovation Research Group. She studies DIY makers who design, make, invent and innovate in shared community technology workshops (fab labs, makerspaces, hacklabs and other niche spaces), from a Science & Technology Studies perspective foregrounding design and socio-environmental sustainability. She examines makers’ techno-utopias in exacting a ‘new industrial revolution’ and how groupings enact their imaginaries in peer-to-peer organising in their localities. She also lectures and writes about design-for-sustainability, Product-Service System design, open design, co-design, distributed economies and design activism, and she has been involved in several urban activism initiatives in Helsinki.
Doctor of Arts (Art and Design), Aalto-yliopisto, Taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulu
Award Date: 31 Mar 2016
Master of Arts (Art and Design), Taideteollinen korkeakoulu
Award Date: 17 Dec 1999
Postdoctoral Researcher funded by Nessling Foundation
1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2021Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Juntunen, J., Jalas, M., Pulkkinen, T., Mäkelä, K., Hector, P., Fodor, K., Kohtala, C., Numminen, S., Ferreira Litowtschenko, M. & Lettenmeier, M.
01/04/2017 → 31/08/2021
Project: Academy of Finland: Competitive funding to strengthen university research profiles
Whalen, J., Botero, A., Mattelmäki, T., Wu, Y., Salmi, A., Kohtala, C., Hakkarainen, L., Savolainen, K., Hyysalo, S., Lee, B. & Johnson, M.
01/09/2015 → 31/08/2019
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
Niinimäki, K., Ilen, E., Karell, E., Tanttu, M., Kohtala, C., Moslemian, O., Valle Noronha, J., Chun, N., Townsend, R. & Berglund, S.
01/06/2015 → 30/11/2018
Project: EU: Framework programmes funding
Cindy Kohtala (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
Cindy Kohtala (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public or invited talk
Cindy Kohtala (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Cindy Kohtala (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Conference presentation
Cindy Kohtala (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visit abroad
05/10/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
03/10/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
13/07/2016
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance