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Kohtala teaches Sustainable Product-Service System design and design for Distributed Economies. She is also a writer and editor and is co-author and co-editor of Product-Service System Design for Sustainability (Greenleaf, 2014) ([http://www.lens.polimi.it/uploads/award/9781909493698_web.pdf link]) and Changing Helsinki? (Nemo, 2015) ([http://www.nemokustannus.fi/kirjat/uusi-helsinki/ link]). She has long been interested and involved in design activism, urban activism and the grassroots, DIY approach in how people design their own sustainable lifestyles in self-organizing communities.
Kohtala teaches Sustainable Product-Service System design and design for Distributed Economies. She is also a writer and editor and is co-author and co-editor of Product-Service System Design for Sustainability (Greenleaf, 2014) ([http://www.lens.polimi.it/uploads/award/9781909493698_web.pdf link]) and Changing Helsinki? (Nemo, 2015) ([http://www.nemokustannus.fi/kirjat/uusi-helsinki/ link]). She has long been interested and involved in design activism, urban activism and the grassroots, DIY approach in how people design their own sustainable lifestyles in self-organizing communities.
Selected from the more extensive bio material in LinkedIn [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cindy-kohtala/5/516/542]:
* '''Design-for-Sustainability researcher/educator at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
1999 – Present (13 years)'''
Doctoral researcher exploring the Maker Movement (fab labs and maker communities and spaces) and the future of the design profession (roles, responsibilities, competencies) in a 'knotworked', co-configuration society.
Member of NODUS, Sustainable Design Research Group.
Areas of interest and expertise: sustainable consumption and production, open design, systems thinking, Product-Service Systems, distributed economies, distributed creativity, peer production, foresight and sustainable innovation.
Project-based design-for-sustainability course tutor and lecturer - e.g. Creativity Sustainability Master's programme coordinator and lecturer (Sustainable Design module), "Designing Water's Future" Master's course, "EMUDE" Master's course.
Workshop facilitator, sustainable solutions, creating design visions.
LeNS project team - Learning Network on Sustainability. Developing curricula content, teaching in pilot courses, coordinating and writing/editing publications, to support education on sustainable PSS thinking in design schools.
University MA tutor, Industrial & Strategic Design, Applied Art and Design, and Fashion Design and Textiles programmes, thesis seminar.
* '''Independent researcher and consultant, 1999 – Present (13 years)'''
Eco-trends and LOHAS researcher and strategic sustainability consultant.
Sustainable Design Barometer project team member/researcher.
Helsinki Green Map project team member.
o2 Finland board member, coordinating e.g. Happihuone greenhouse pavilion 2001-2007.
Helsinki Green Drinks coordinator."


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Latest revision as of 09:26, 23 March 2016

Bio

Cindy Kohtala is a writer, teacher and researcher in the field of Design-for-Sustainability. She is currently a post-doc researcher in the Department of Design, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, examining collaborative design in material peer production communities and sustainable innovation processes. Her doctoral research explored the maker movement (Fab Labs and maker communities and spaces) and its environmental, social and economic sustainability issues, as mainly a longitudinal ethnographic study involving Symbolic Interactionist analysis.

Link to dissertation.

Kohtala teaches Sustainable Product-Service System design and design for Distributed Economies. She is also a writer and editor and is co-author and co-editor of Product-Service System Design for Sustainability (Greenleaf, 2014) (link) and Changing Helsinki? (Nemo, 2015) (link). She has long been interested and involved in design activism, urban activism and the grassroots, DIY approach in how people design their own sustainable lifestyles in self-organizing communities.

More Information

  1. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cindy-kohtala/5/516/542
  2. cindy.kohtala@aalto.fi
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