Shifting Territories Seminar (2011)

By Tjhien Liao (updated on June 23rd, 2011)
“A discipline that seeks to advance itself urges its practitioners to look into other territories. Design, in its practice of imagining the new is consistently moving in such territories, with its concern for context, application and consequences to individuals, communities, organizations, institutions, localities, markets or cultures.

Territories and regions are also topics of disciplinary research. Environmental, geographical or cultural settings ground the context as focus, but yet allow multiple interpretations as they change. A territory is also subject to boundaries, acting as limits, giving rise to political negotiations of ownership and protectionism.

Borders between disciplines also delineate territories of kind. It can be asked whether such territories are tools for focusing one’s inquiry or comfort zones for maintaining a secure but limited world view.

A discursive platform that provides trans-disciplinary viewpoints and one that also engages in exchange of issues, can aid in a shift, helping overcome borders between disciplines. The Design Research community from the School of Design, at the Aalto University, invites you to Shifting Territories.”
PROGRAM – For presentation click titles
9:00 – 9:15 Seminar inaugural note

moderator: Karthikeya Acharya

 Turkka Keinonen
Professor,
Head Design Connections Doctoral School,
Department of Design,
School of Art and design,
Aalto University.
9:15 – 10:00 Keynote – click for presentation:

Shifting across discipline borders and knowledge systems – experiences from the North

moderator: Karthikeya Acharya

 Päivi Soppela
Senior Scientist at Arctic Center,
University of Lapland.
10:00 – 10:30 Student presentation –

Boundaries of space in the making

moderator: Karthikeya Acharya

 Tero Heikkinen
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Design,
School of Art and design,
Aalto University.
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15 Student presentation – click for presentation:

Indigenous peoples, consultation mechanisms and the free, prior and informed consent.

moderator: Tjhien Liao

 Adam Stephien
Doctoral Candidate,
Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law,
University of Lapland.
11:15 – 11:45 Student presentation – click for presentation:

Designing (with) Organizations. A case description.

moderator: Tjhien Liao

 Juha Kronqvist
Doctoral Candidate,
Media Lab,
School of Art and design,
Aalto University.
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:45 Keynote – click for presentation:

Design, ethnography, and institutional realities

moderator: Tjhien Liao

 Jack Whalen
Visiting Professor,
Aalto University.
1:45 – 2:15 Student presentation – click for presentation:

Design, everyday activism and behaviour change

moderator: Tero Heikkinen

 Tjhien Liao
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Design,
School of Art and design,
Aalto University.
2:15 – 2:30 Coffee break
2:30 – 3:00 Student presentation –

Impacts of the deer ked on the health of reindeer -multidisciplinary aspect with experiences from reindeer husbandry

moderator: Tero Heikkinen

 Sanna Mari
Doctoral Candidate,
Department of Biology,
Faculty of Science,
University of Oulu.
3:00 – 3:30 Student presentation – click for presentation:

Converse, Construct and Conceive – Cases of Human and Resource Interactions from Karnataka, India

moderator: Tero Heikkinen

 Karthikeya Acharya
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Design,
School of Art and design,
Aalto University.
3:30 – 4:00 Concluding Panel Discussion