2. Roadmap for platform ramp-up
Energy (2013)
Health Factory 2.0 (2016)
Living Plus 2.0 (2015)Digi (2014)
Materials (2017)
Platforms are joint
excercises of 4…6
Aalto schools and
the university level
4. Upcoming things
Academy of Finland Strategic Research Council Call
Profiling application
Breakfast meetings
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5. Program
14:00- Coffee and afternoon snack
14:30- Welcome Mikko Särelä, Living+ Platform
14:40- Pirjo Sanaksenaho, Living+ fostering research
14:50- Research group presentations from participants (2
minutes / 1 slide per presentation)
15:15- Anni Sinnemäki, Deputy Mayor of Helsinki (City
planning)
15:30- Research group presentations continue (2 minutes / 1
slide per presentation)
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7. SoftGIS
(several research projects)
”Experience”
Rule-based urban planning
(Tekes, Smart Built Environment)
”Periaatekaavoitus”
land use planning, geoinformatics
Regional Innovation
Ecosystem
(RYM, EUE Research Programme)
”Smart city planning”
land-use planning, geoinformatics, facility
management, business models
Future Learning Environments
(RYM, IE Research Programme)
”Bottom-up-sustainability”
facility management, architecture, land use planning
Collaborative planning
and design supported by
advanced digital tools
Web-based
participation
and user surveys
City models
and
gamification
Situation awareness
in urban planning
decision-making
Agent-based
modelling
Planning
support
systems
CONTEXT
Planning and designing the built
environment in all scales
Complex, multi-stakeholder
processes
WORKING METHOD
Collaboration and participation
Multidisciplinary interactions
Advanced digital support
Joint projects with academia and
practice, teaching and research
SPECIAL INTRESTS
User experience
Knowledge mash-up
Visualisation
Decision making support
YTK/Aija Staffans
17.8.2015
ABE
Aalto Built
Environment LabCampus
development
8. Contextually
sensitive,
human-centered
research for
land-use planning
Transactional,
place-based research
Innovative
methods
Individually
sensitive
approach
Various
inhabitant
groups
Knowledge-
informed
participatory
planning
Professor Marketta Kyttä
Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics
YTK - Land Use Planning and Urban Studies Group
9. ▪ Heterogeneous household type ➔ Focus: urban, 30-64, working age
▪ Home environments, social dimension vs. housing design approach
▪ Field-specificity: housing studies, cultural context, transferability (FDH,
design game), language issues
▪ Research strategy: Few references, abduction, 78 theme-interviews
➔ Evolving themes ➔ Considering additional data collection phase:
developing research method (design game):
Shared domestic spaces: under what condition?
▪ Where is my manuscript? 12 months
Howtheincreasingnumberofone-personhouseholdschannelsthe
developmentofurbanresidentialenvironments? - Solodwellers as
trendsetters
Anne Tervo
Lecturer, M.Sc (Arch.)
PhD candidate
11. Research interests related to Living+ (in general) New media infrastructuring
and its implications for: civic engagement (participation and self organization),
communities and commoning, formation of everyday “social movements”
Ongoing research projects/questions related to Living+:
- Self organized civic engagement in city making? Action research (incl. design
interventions) with communities in Kallio (Helsinki) and Yanaka (Tokyo) – Ongoing
CODSGI Finnish Academy Project (with University of Tokyo and University of
Helsinki)
- Urban data and city-citizen collaboration? E.g.: Laakso, N., Saad-Sulonen, J., &
Botero, A. (2014). The Urban Information Toolkit: Enabling collaborative work
around issues related to urban everyday life. Aalto University.
- Role of platforms for community life in creating social mixing and social cohesion
in conditions of differentiation? –
COMIX Pending Finnish Academy Application with University of Helsinki and THL
Andrea Botero / andrea.botero@aalto.fi
Aalto University - School of Arts, Design and Architecture - DOM – Media Lab –Arki research group
12. CKIR Research Interest for Living+
Open Society and Smart Services
✓ CKIR has approached societal and industrial innovation on system level from service and
information systems science viewpoints (tecno-economic)
✓ Past projects focus on development of user driven, open standard based smart services in
Smart City context, often tested in Living Labs
✓ Focus is on actors, processes, relationships and orchestration models in multi-stakeholder
networks and platforms
✓ Research questions for Living+ would include:
✓ How to support the industry in transformation toward the vision of open access, demand driven service ecosystems?
✓ What are the means to trigger sustainable innovation and drive renewal on established business networks and public
sector?
✓ How to accelerate adaptation of new innovations by public institutions and citizens?
✓ How to optimize user experience and offer opportunities for value driven consumption?
✓ CKIR could foresee participation in a WP focusing on Macro level: Ecosystem analysis,
Policy landscape, or micro level: service design, user engagement, platform business
models for IoT,…
14. A Dream of a Better World –
Themes of Modern
in Finnish Landscape
Architecture 1900-1970
An ongoing book project
20 professional articles covering
themes from
everyday living
environments,
nature in the
cities to
the new
landscape,
exploring the role of
landscape design
and designers in the process
of modernisation inEditor in chief, Professor Jyrki Sinkkilä, Programme of Landscape Architecture
15. From Technology to Theory
• Self-Driving Vehicle Mobility
• Technological development
• Evolution of technological development practices
• Transportation Systems Planning
• Analysis and modeling of human mobility behavior
• Decision-support for planning transportation technology
• Evolution of transportation systems planning processes
• Philosophy of Mobility
• Mobility as a human right
• Mobility as a social contract
17.08.2015.
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Milos Mladenovic
16. designing SPACE
TIME EXPERIENCE
an d NARRATIVE
EXPANDED SCENOGRAPHY is our top emerging focus area in Design for the Performing Arts
Our number 1 artistic research project in development is “SENSE OF PLACE”
WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Researching and rethinking concepts, practices and environments for new kinds of experiental and narrative uses of urban
space and its novel media environments
KEY THEMES: lived & shared urban space / openness of public space / theatricality of urban (media) environment / re-writing urban space through
sensability / activating common spaces & places through artivism and temporal narratives / exposing the ‘intimate’ & ‘personal’ within the city scale
AIMS: Developing, exploring, creating & contextualizing aesthetically and socially responsive performative practices, implemented within lived
urban space and public scenery by means of artistic research and performative ‘artivistic’ practices
SENSE OF PLACE – experiental urban space
Liisa Ikonen, Professor in Design for the Performing Arts
Maiju Loukola, Post doctoral Researcher in Design for the Performing Arts
Aalto ARTS School of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Film, Tv and Scenography
17. Wood Material Technology group
• Wood is a renewable resource, is CO2 neutral, has excellent structural properties
and is perceived to be “natural”
• Wood also has many under-exploited physical properties (e.g. hydrothermal) that
can help to passively mediate a living environment and lead to both direct and
indirect energy savings
• It also has interesting visual and tactile properties and as a “natural” material
can help enhance human wellbeing
• It has huge potential in the built environment to create sustainable housing and
workspaces
• The group is currently researching this potential in collaboration with colleagues
from different disciplines through several ongoing projects
18. Living+
Systemic change:
Bottom-up transition
to sustainability
• An emerging movement, many actors
• Grassroots pioneers’ initiatives
• Local action – but happening worldwide
• Growing connectivity – social media
The aim is to develop Aalto Otaniemi campus
into a learning environment – a living lab
that supports this development
Seeking for:
• New sustainable lifestyles
• Active production of local culture
• From consumers to producers
• Challenges the unsustainable status quo
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siivouspäivä#/media/
File:Siivouspäivä.jpg
19. NODUS
Sustainable Design Research Group
Design-led research for the transition towards more
sustainable lifeways, e.g.
• Analyses of sustainable lifestyles: Carbon footprints, materials use,
energy demand and activity patterns across different urban forms
• Sustainability and sufficiency as material entanglements, practices and
grass roots politics
• Co-design with partners such as HSY and Tuusala Housing fare 2020
http://designresearch.aalto.fi/groups/nodus/overview/ Senior lecturer Mikko Jalas, Aalto ARTS , Dpt of Design
16.8.2015
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20. Sotera Insitute
Department of Architecture
Aalto Universitywww.sotera.fi
Ira Verma
ira.verma@aalto.fi
17.08. 2015
Living +
Background: Over 90 percent of persons + 75 live at home
Aim:
•To promote inclusion through built environment, services and social networks locally
•To improve access to services and enhance mobility
Means:
•User driven multidisiplinary research in Aalto University: planning, architecture, service
design, network research, technology
•Collaboration between academia, public, private and third sector service providers
Projects:
•Innovative city® –programme, ongoing
•Horizon 2020, application
Living environment supporting aging population
21. Research interests related to Living+ Collaborative new media design and
infrastructuring, open knowledge, open cultural data and content in the city, cultural
and urban commons, communities and commoning
Ongoing research projects/questions related to Living+
! Making open cultural data and content available for citizens/ with citizens.
! Enabling and supporting citizens creatively re-using open data and content through
hackathons & co-creation workshops (e.g. Hack4FI, CultureJams) and design
interventions in the public space (e.g. Drone art)
Towards Open Culture, AvoinGLAM and The Hack your heritage! Projects (2012-), co-funded
by the Finnish ministry of culture and education (Open Knowledge Finland, AMF)
! Stimulating and facilitating appropriation and creative re-use of digital cultural
heritage resources. – Ongoing EU Funded Europeana Creative project
- Self organized civic engagement in city making? Action research (incl. design
interventions) with communities in Kallio (Helsinki) and Yanaka (Tokyo) – Ongoing
CODSGI Finnish Academy Project (with University of Tokyo and University of Helsinki)
Sanna Marttila / sanna.marttila@aalto.fi
Aalto University - School of Arts, Design and Architecture - DOM – Media Lab –Arki research group
22. Green Infrastructure and Landscape
14.8.2015
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SocietyRegionIndividual Global scale
Healthy and attractive living
environments, Connection to
nature, Safety
Livable urban areas
Provision of urban
ecosystem services,
Sustainable construction
Urban resilience, Climate
change adaptation, Natural
Capital, Growth within limits
Climate change mitigation,
Natural resources,
Biodiversity
https://blogs.aalto.fi/virma/
23. Pori Urban Platform of Aalto University
PUPA• Platform for diverse projects Aalto people and
units wish to carry out in Pori/ Satakunta
• Support for mobility costs
• Societal impact
• Living lab
PUPA on Aalto website http://taide.aalto.fi/fi/pori/
PUPA on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/
pupapori
PUPA-team: Harri Laakso, Trevor Harris, Taina Rajanti
24. Elävä Pori/ Pori Live – innovative collaborative inquiry as a resource for
sustainable development of urban space
• Innovations that don’t require massive investments but
are based on sharing of experiental knowledge.
• Cultural knowledge: artistic research and experimental
projects, cultural mapping, experiential knowledge of the
dwellers and users collaborative inquiry: workshops,
experimental events
• Aalto University Department of Art, University of Turku
Landscape Studies, Urban Planning of the city of Pori.
• Elävä Pori website https://elavapori.wordpress.com/
Taina Rajanti, Anna Jensen, Denise Ziegler
8/18/15
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25. Future resilient urban design and building solutions: comparative
research and experimental prototype programme
Towards a climate-neutral and resource-scarce society
• Transdisciplinary research within the framework of
Aalto University‘s Human-base Living Environment
Research programme, LIVING +
• an international multi-disciplinary research and
prototype testing process with both the private and
public sectors being heavily involved
• Continuing the work of DECOMB Urban Design
Management and HOT-R towards smart urban
renewal principles
26. Epistemology+Argumentation Kimmo Lapintie & Mina di Marino, Department ofArchitecture
17/08/15
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How is knowledge (explicit, tacit) constructed in the planning process?
How does evidence from different disciplines and sciences enter the process?
What is the role of professions in the battle for urban expertise?
What is the role of stakeholders and NGOs in framing planning epistemologies?
How is knowledge used in the arguments and rhetoric for planning solutions?
Stories from the Backyard 1.0+2.0 (1997-99, 2014-16): action research methodology,
epistemic argumentation analysis, critical discourse analysis
27. Research interests related to Living+ Arki focuses on the digitalization of everyday
life, so we work with many themes related to life in the future. We have also started a
collaborative transdisciplinary research and study initiative “Redesign of Society”,
which covers many themes that are relevant also in the Living+ context. We are
developing a vision of society in 2040 and of the design evolution that we would like
to see in the next 25 years.
Ongoing research projects/questions related to Living+
Digitalization of everyday life
- design of everyday life; evolution of digital ecosystems and media
Redesign of Society
- what are societal designs, where do they come from, how can they be designed;
transition design
- finding ways to design and explore new societal designs (e.g. “new rules for the
game”) for addressing societal challenges, e.g. livelihood in areas and fields of life
that are now threatened; sustainable, ethical and ubiquitous food production; new
price and market systems;…
- design fiction: serious future scenarios that make the exploration of future designs
possible today
Kari-Hans Kommonen/ kari-hans.kommonen@aalto.fi
Aalto University - School of Arts, Design and Architecture – DOM – Media Lab – Arki research group
28. Future Smart
City Concept
OUR CONTRIBUTION: LIVING+
Crowdsourcing &
Human behaviour
Decision Making
Knowledge Innovation
Management
CAD
BIM
Virtual Tools
Virtual Reality
Games
Indoor & Outdoor
Modeling
Regional
Information
Modelling
Environmental Analysis
& Change Detection
Sensor Intergation
Scale: personal – building - city
3D city as a platform
Co-operation cities:
Espoo, Oulu, Helsinki,
Vantaa, Seinäjoki ...
GIS & Location-Based
Services
Open Data
Visualization
Aalto University/ Center of Excellence in Laser Scanning Research prof. Henrik Haggrén, prof. Hannu Hyyppä, prof. Pirjo Ståhle, prof. Juha Hyyppä,
- Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing MA Juho-Pekka Virtanen, Dr. Petri Rönnholm, Mr. Markku Markkula ...
- Institute of Measuring and Modelling for Built Environment SEE: Aalto University: AI.6 Human-centered living environments: Research excellence
(selected merits) Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Laser Scanning
Research (CoE):
Innovative
Measurement
Equipments
& Patents
Big Data
Several projects : SA, Tekes,
EU, EAKR, Aalto AEF ...
30. Department of Design
Human Centred Design the largest focus area of research
Human Centred Living Environment research has long history,
recently e.g.
365 Wellbeing in 2011 WDC Living+, Spice, Lähiö 2072 Lauttasaari,
“Kaupunkiakatemia”
“Sustainable Living+” suite of initiatives in the living+ area …
to be further funded through the platform
Aesthetic experience of city planning (Kholina& Mäkelä )
New forms of urban sociality -> Plant Hotel (Wu)
Maker culture as rejuvenation of city (Kohtala & Hyysalo)
Participatory planning initiatives (Hyysalo)
Community empowerment through design (Garduno)
Strategic design for sustainable urban transition (Mok)
Determining sustainable material footprints (Lettenmeier)
31. keywords:
Co-design, user experience,
empathic design
Recent DA thesis related to Living
+:
Antti Pirinen 2014 Dwelling as
product
Katja Soini 2015 Facilitating
change
Plant Hotel
community-based service, neighborhood
Lauttasaari & networked services
32. ”All that we just didn't realize when moved
in here and sold our summer cottage".
Residential decision-making behaviour, housing
strategies and multilocality.
Eija Hasu
PhD candidate
M.Sc (landscape arch., econ.)
Interactions and processes
shaping the housing
experiences of households
and individiuals.
33. …many gaps in our current empirical knowledge of housing: In
particular, the lack of understanding of the dynamics of
household planning and decision making on the key aspects of
housing as part of the making lifestyle choices… (Clapham 2005)
• Housing pathways (Clapham 2005) approach/framework
• Research projects
• "Housing Preferences, Everyday Life and Sustainable Urban Structure" (Ministry of the Environment, 2006-2008),
complementary data: 3rd agers and multiple homes
• ”MODEL2020: Sarvvik-Sundsberg. Planning a new residential environment for social sustainability" (Tekes, YIT, EKE and
Sato, 2011-2012)
• ”ApRemodel: Urban infill and residential redevelopment" (Tekes, 2010-2013)
• "Finnish Dream Home" (Aalto University Habitat Components - Townhouse, Innovatiivinen Kaupunki, 2013-2014)
• “Energy and environment – Townhouse” (Aalto University AEF Energy-efficient townhouse, 2015)
• “Tower dwelling”- housing preferences (2013, SRV Group Plc)
• In-depth and semi-structured interviews, workshops, surveys
• 3 articles published, 3+ under writing process
35. Learning in urban living environments
Designing and developing new media tools
- Learning analytics for wellness (e.g. Feeler/LeGroup)
- Social Augmented reality for vision sharing (e.g. SAR/LeGroup)
- Wearables for capturing body movement (e.g. Kinemata/LeGroup)
- Mobile apps for on-the-job reflection (Ach so!/LeGroup)
Launching new learning practices
- Pilot studies on studying outside of school (iTEC project/LeGroup)
- Transforming schools into community learning centers (combination of a library,
school, community house, cafe)
- Effects of nature and urban wildlife
Engaging learners
- Participatory design, co-design
36. Living+ @ Aalto, 17.8.2015
prof dr toni kotnik
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Toni Kotnik
Professor for Design of Structures
School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Architecture
School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Experiential Structuralism
building structures for sustainable living environments
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Sustainable Built Environment As Design Problem
Active
Systems
Passive
Systems
Building
Configuration
energy saving
clean energy
ScienceofEnergy
engineeringarchitecture
Buildings directly affects more than 40% of all energy consumed in developed countries. In order to make the built environment more
sustainable two strategies of equal importance are currently pursued in the context of various disciplines and multi-disciplinary research
fields: the development of more clean energy and the improvement of energy efficiency as well as the activation of other opportunities for
energy saving. In buildings, the amount of energy needed for the operation is largely dependent on the morphology, the organization of
spaces and the materialization of the building. Because of this, architectural decisions during the design process play a key role in making
buildings more sustainable. Thesis 1: A sustainable built environment is not so much a technical but primarily a design problem!
hierarchy of strategies towards sustainable built environment by Stefan Behling
lecture,IIT Chicago, 2004
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Sverre Fehn: Nordic Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 1962
Polyvalent Building Structures
In the built environment, structures is ubiquitous. Often, however, only as neutral background. In architecture, historically only the aspect of
construction and the inherent tectonic potential has been considered. But the architectural impact of building structures is not limited to the
detail. Rather it affects directly the larger scale of defining space and the spatial organization and articulation of architecture. But this requires
a change in attitude towards structural design: away from the concentration of forces upon a small number of building elements and towards
the spatial distribution of forces within space. This spreading of forces allows for greater variation of formal articulation and as such opens up
the field of structures to a multitude of phenemenological expressions. Furthermore, does the flexibilization of structural typologies and the
resulting distribution of matter help to take over or at least support other performative functions like for example sun shading, heat transfer or
heat storage or ventilation. Thesis 2: The polyvalence of structural systems is an underused performative and architectural potential!
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Experiential Structuralism
series of exploration of the polyvalent potetial of building structures
on various scales
Over the years, several methods and techniques have been developed to explore the polyvalent potential of building structures on various
scales from the level of material systems, over building scales, up to urban applications. This new design approach balances the necessity of
physics with the freedom of design and results in the development of new kinds of architectural expressions that are not determined by
technical solutions but foster architectural experience and new social spaces. Thesis 3: Structural design can foster a holistic
perspective that lead to sustainable and liveable urban environments!
