My Dream World Team

Satu Miettinen (satu.miettinen@ulapland.fi) works as a professor of applied art and design at the University of Lapland. For several years she has been working with service design research and writing. She is actively working with service design research in the area of social and public service development. Her research interest is in developing artistic and bodystorming methods in the area of service design. She is working in the steering groups of several service design research projects: developing public services for the elderly, developing service prototyping and service design methods.

Taina Kontio is a well-known visual artist working with video and other visual media. She has received several international awards for her video productions. She has been developing hero's journey application for service design. Further, she runs service design workshops for consultancy.

Inkeri Huhtamaa (ihuhta@welho.com) is a Textile Artist and Doctor of Arts. The title of her doctoral thesis is NAMIBIAN BODILY APPEARANCE AND HANDMADE OBJECTS The Meanings of Appearance Culture and Handmade Objects from the Perspective of the Craft Persons.Her interest is the material culture of indigenous peoples. It was also the topic of her dissertation in 2010. She has done a long career of developing countries’ culture projects by organizing workshops and by teaching in them in Namibia quite regularly every other year since 1997.  She worked nine years, 1987-1995, in Vantaa School of Art- and Design first as a textile- and fashion teachers and then as the leader of the Department of Extended Studies. After this she worked eleven years, 1995-2006, as product manager at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, in the Centre for Extended Studies.

Tarja Wallius is an artist and designer. She has worked with textiles for the past twenty years. Her approach has increasingly focused on communal processes and ecological issue, leading to the development of an international workshop model aimed at promoting awareness of climate change. Tarja Wallius is using a T-shirt workshop as a service design tool to process contextual data and customer insights and produce a visual and textual comment or statement based on this.

Kristiina Hänninen is a professor of textile art at the University of Lapland. She has been developing service design approach using textile and participatory textile art as a medium. She also has an outstanding career in both education and in textile design.

Reetta Kerola is a service designer and an artist working with co-design workshops. She has developed a paper city tool for community engagement in city planning.

Maria Keskipoikela is a design amanuensis at the University of Lapland,  a design entrepreneur of Oukku and she has a long experience in regional development work. She works with textiles and service design in this project.

Piia Rytilahti works as a researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design. Se is experienced in design research focused both in regional research and development and academic research. She is preparing her dissertation thesis on service design. Her research interest is in social interaction design and social innovation. 

My Dream World team members at COTA, Windhoek.