Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Architecture

My current fields of interest are communicative planning, argumentation, epistemology and knowledge management in planning, and multi-locality in working and living. Together with my post-doctoral researcher Mina di Marino and vmWork-team in the School of Science, we are currently working in a project CityWorkLife, which studies working in public and semi-private spaces, such as libraries, coffee shops and public open spaces. In my personal projects, I am studying the role of knowledge and knowledge management in planning, derived from a critique of Polanyi and Nonaka. My new project is to study communication and knowledge in the new City Plan of Helsinki.

Where do you come from?

I have graduated from the University of Turku as Master of Philosophy in 1980 and Licentiate of Philosophy in 1985, my major being theoretical philosophy and my minors practical philosophy, economics, and history and theory of art. I graduated as MSc (architecture) in 1989, and PhD (architecture, urban planning) in 1993 from Tampere University of Technology. I have worked as a planning consultant for the State planning agency in Vaasa, and owner and planner in the privat architecture and engineering office Plan-Ark Ltd in 1989-1993. In 1993-1996 I worked as the Principal Investigator in the project Ecopolis, funded by the Academy of Finland. In 1997-1999 I was the Research Director of the Centre of Urban and Regional Studies in the Helsinki University of Technology, and from 1999 I have worked as professor of urban and regional planning at the Department of Architectrure, first in Helsinki University of Technology (until 2009), and in Aalto University since then.

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