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Joanna Catherine Saad-Sulonen |
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1974 |
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| Contact |
e-mail : jsaadsu(at)uiah(dot)fi |
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| Qualifications |
MA in New Media, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2005
Final thesis: “Mediaattori – Urban Mediator: a hybrid infrastructure for neighborhoods” - www.mlab.uiah.fi/publicspaces
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), School of Engineering and Architecture,
American University of Beirut,
1997 |
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| Work |
| 2006 - present |
Researcher, designer
ICING project
Helsinki Living Lab project
ARKI research group, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
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| 2005 - 2006 |
Part-time: working on UNESCO's Young Digital Creators Educators' kit (book) and information content coordinator for UNESCO's Art, Design and Technology Master Class for Arab States online environment http://moodle.uiah.fi/unesco/ |
| 2004-2005: |
Research assistant, ARKI research group, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland |
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Course coordinator – “Design Thinking” – Helsinki Summer School & UIAH/Media Lab |
| 2001-2004: |
Web designer – webmaster, SoberIT (Software Business and Engineering Institute), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland |
| 1999-2000: |
Architect, Iliya Stevenson Consultants (Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design), Lebanon |
| Spring 1999: |
Architect, B&M Architects, Finland |
| 1997-1998: |
Architect, Iliya Stevenson Consultants (Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design), Lebanon |
| Summer 1996: |
Trainee, B&M Architects, Helsinki, Finland |
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| Areas of interest |
Participatory design - using the potential presented by digital technologies to
encourage the participation of the general public in issues concerning
their everyday life and their environment.
Open and collaborative systems for information sharing about urban issues and city life.
Representations of cities and urban visual culture using new media. |
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| Papers, presentations and publications |
Presentation given at Maunula Summer Seminar, with Iina Oilinki (Helsinki Urban Facts): Arabianranta testialueena – esimerkkinä ICING-hanke (Arabianranta as test-bed - the ICING project case). Maunulan XI kesäseminaari, 08.06.2007. Video of the presentation (in Finnish)
Saad-Sulonen, J., Susi, R. (2007) Designing Urban Mediator. Presented at the Cost 298 conference: participation in the broadband society. 23rd-25th May 2007, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Introducing Urban Mediator: concept and work in progress. Paper presented at the Research and Activism - 4th Urban Studies Days, 25-26 April 2007, Tallinn, Estonia.
Saad-Sulonen, J. (2007) Documenting and sharing the city. In Personal and shared - Exploring practices and infrastructures. ADIK project Thematic publication No 3. Andrea Botero Editor. 2007 (in press)
Presentation given at the Performing Places seminar: Spaces of Policy and Spaces of Design. Performing Places - Media and Embodiment in the Urban Environment. November 7 - 9, 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
First steps towards designing the “Urban Mediator”. Presented at Tools'06, Media Lab Research Symposium, 19.05.2006 Helsinki. To be published in Proceedings of the symposium (forthcoming)
Everyday Life in the Interactive City: exploring the potentials of interweaving digital technologies and urban space. Presented at Future Urban Research in Europe conference, February 2006 Bratislava. To be published in Proceedings of the conference (forthcoming - 2007)
Book written in collaboration with Teemu Leinonen: Young Digital Creators Educator's Kit, UNESCO 2006. Online version at: http://unesco.uiah.fi/ydc-book/
Interactions at the boundaries: a design research exploration around urban space, digital media and public participation. To be published in Proceedings of the International Conference for Integrating Urban Knowledge & Practice, Gothenburg, Sweden. May 29-June 3, 2005.
Saad-Sulonen, J. (2004) Urban Derive. In ADIK/Remembering and Reminding, ARKI Thematic Publication No 1, 2004. ARKI research group, Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki.
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