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.