Workshop

Workshop Kit: Designing Opportunities for Women in the Congo

Designing Opportunities for Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a step-by-step participatory design workshop kit created by Kati Hyyppä and me for  and with SAFER, a Canadian NGO that aims to empower sexual violence survivors with socio–economic opportunities. … Continue reading

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Visualization Workshop – South Africa

In April 2011, Kati Hyyppä and I  facilitated a one week visualization workshop for and with researchers at the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in Pretoria, South Africa. The workshop stood in context of … Continue reading

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Filming a New Beginning (FNB) – Workshop

The Filming a New Beginning – Workshop for children by children was designed in close design partnership with children and their mothers in Chennai, India. The workshop was part of my Master Thesis in New Media at the Aalto Univeristy … Continue reading

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Filming a New Beginning (FNB) – Master Thesis

The title of my Master Thesis in Art and Design is Filming a New Beginning – Designing a New Media Learning Practice by Building on the Personal Interests of Families in India. The Thesis was written at the Aalto University … Continue reading

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Poster presentation in Bangalore

At the Sustainability in Design: NOW! conference, held from 29 September to 01 October 2010 in Bangalore, India, I presented a paper that was written in collaboration with Brenda Castro Pelayo and Teemu Leinonen in form of a poster. The paper … Continue reading

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Design for Change Finland

Design for Change (DfC) is a worldwide school contest that originated from Kiran Bir Sethi’s Design for Giving project, in Ahmedabad, India in 2007. In collaboration with DfC, Aalto Social Imapact and UNICEF Pavan Ramkumar, Anne Mandel, Riita Toivonen, Sara Park … Continue reading

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