Design for Social Change - Participation
Designing for Social Change (DSC) courses provide students basic understanding and competences to build design projects aimed towards social change.
Sampsa Hyysalo is Professor of Co-Design at the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland. His research focuses on designer-user relations in sociotechnical change. This includes engagement in participatory design, codesign, open and user innovation, open design, peer knowledge creation, user communities, citizen science and user knowledge in organizations, design ethnography, longitudinal ethnography, social shaping of technology, process studies of innovation, practice theory, and sustainability transitions.
Sampsa has published over 70 full lenght articles and book chapters. Topically most of his research has been on renewable energy, health technology, organizational software and social media. He has authored several books, the latest being “The new production of users: Changing innovation communities and involvement strategies” (with Elgaard Jensen and Oudshoorn, Routledge, 2016) Health Technology Development and Use: From practice-bound Imagination to evolving Impacts (Routledge, 2010). Sampsa’s research orientation is multidisciplinary, science & technology studies, innovation studies and collaborative design being his main fields of reference. He received his PhD in behavioral sciences in University of Helsinki, working with activity theory. His docenture in is user-centered design of information systems. He was the chief editor of Science & Technology Studies journal 2007-2016 and was awarded the Academy of Finland price for social impact of research in 2010 and EASST Freeman Price for the “New production of Users”.
Courses
Latest publications
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement, part 2
Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
2024
Design Journal
Series of configurational movements : User activities in technology generalization
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni K. Juntunen
2024
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Accelerating transition toward district heating-system decarbonization by policy co-design with key investors : opportunities and challenges
Karoliina Auvinen, Teemu Meriläinen, Laura Saikku, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni K. Juntunen
2023
SUSTAINABILITY: SCIENCE, PRACTICE, AND POLICY
CoDesign for sustainability transitions: How a long-term research agenda can instill social impact and provide an envelope for doctoral education
Sampsa Hyysalo, Tatu Marttila
2023
15th International Conference of the European Academy of Design
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki
Sampsa Hyysalo, Kaisa Savolainen, Antti Pirinen, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Päivi Hietanen, Meri Virta
2023
The Design Journal
Citizen energy lost in sustainability transitions : Knowledge co-production in a complex governance context
Jani P. Lukkarinen, Miikka Salo, Maija Faehnle, Heli Saarikoski, Sampsa Hyysalo, Karoliina Auvinen, Satu Lähteenoja, Tatu Marttila
2023
Energy Research and Social Science
Transition co-design dynamics in high level policy processes
Satu Lähteenoja, Tatu Marttila, İdil Gaziulusoy, Sampsa Hyysalo
2023
Design Studies
Mid-Range Transition Arenas as Catalysts in a Circular Economy
Tatu Marttila, Jani Lukkarinen, Sampsa Hyysalo, David Lazarevic, Helena Valve
2023
The Routledge Handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy
Päälämmityslähteestä monilämmitykseen: suomalaisista pientaloista on tullut toisiaan täydentävien ja vuorottelevien energiajärjestelmien hybrideitä
Sini Numminen, Marika Silvikko de Villafranca, Sampsa Hyysalo
2023
Alue ja ympäristö
The interrupting capacities of knowledge co-production experiments: A sociology of testing approach
Helena Valve, David Lazarevic, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jani Lukkarinen, Tatu Marttila
2023
Environmental Science and Policy
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Volume 45 (2022)
Wouter Boon, Thomas Magnusson, Sampsa Hyysalo
2022
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’
Wouter Boon, Thomas Magnusson, Sampsa Hyysalo
2022
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
An arena of transformation
Sampsa Hyysalo, Tatu Marttila
2022
Designing Change : New Opportunities for Organisations
Design types in diversified city administration
Sampsa Hyysalo, Kaisa Savolainen, Antti Pirinen, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Päivi Hietanen, Meri Virta
2022
The Design Research Society Conference (DRS2022)
Ekologinen siirtymä luonnon monimuotoisuuspolitiikassa : Biodiversiteettiareenan 2021 tulokset
Sampsa Hyysalo, Satu Lähteenoja, Tatu Marttila, Kaisa Savolainen, Ari-Pekka Auvinen, Jani Lukkarinen, Juuli Närhi, Joona Lehtomäki, Kirsi-Marja Lonkila, Kristiina Niikkonen, Olli Ojala, Marina von Weissenberg
2022
Market intermediation and its embeddeness – Lessons from the Finnish energy transition
Sampsa Hyysalo, Eva Heiskanen, Jani Lukkarinen, Kaisa Matschoss, Mikko Jalas, Paula Kivimaa, Jouni K. Juntunen, Fanni Moilanen, Pekka Murto, Eeva Primmer
2022
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Kuusi muutospolkua Agenda2030 -tavoitteisiin. Agenda2030 -murrosareenatyön tulokset.
Satu Lähteenoja, Sampsa Hyysalo, Tatu Marttila
2022
Kestävän kehityksen toimikunnan Agenda2030 -tiekartta
What does it take to study learning in transitions? A case of citizen energy in Finland
Satu Lähteenoja, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jani Lukkarinen, Tatu Marttila, Heli Saarikoski, Maija Faehnle, Lasse Peltonen
2022
SUSTAINABILITY: SCIENCE, PRACTICE, AND POLICY
Design Enters the City
Antti Pirinen, Kaisa Savolainen, Sampsa Hyysalo, Tuuli Mattelmäki
2022
International Journal of Design
PRODUCING THE ‘USER’ IN SMART TECHNOLOGIES: A framework for examining user representations in smart grids and smart metering infrastructure
Antti Silvast, Robin Williams, Sampsa Hyysalo, Kjetil Rommetveit, Charles Raab
2022
The Routledge Handbook of Smart Technologies
Guiding the PhD in design: Experiences from six programs
Pieter Jan Stappers, Carlos Teixera, Lucia Rampino, Weston Baxter, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jonathan Chapman
2022
DRS2022: Bilbao
Local adequacy as a design strategy in place-based making
Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Sampsa Hyysalo, Alexandra Raeva
2022
CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts
Citizen Activities in Energy Transition: User Innovation, New Communities, and the Shaping of a Sustainable Future
Sampsa Hyysalo
2021
User Representations as a Design Resource
Kaisa Savolainen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2021
Science & Technology Studies
Smart Energy Transition -hankkeen vaikuttavuusraportti
Armi Temmes, Tiina Ohrling, Sampsa Hyysalo
2021
Getting Participatory Design Done
Andrea Botero, Sampsa Hyysalo, Cindy Kohtala, John Whalen
2020
International Journal of Design
A taxonomy of users’ active design engagement in the 21st century
Cindy Kohtala, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jack Whalen
2020
Design Studies
Taloyhtiöistä tulevaisuuden energiatuottajia
Jani Lukkarinen, Tatu Marttila, Heli Saarikoski, Karoliina Auvinen, Maija Faehnle, Sampsa Hyysalo, Hanna-Liisa Kangas, Satu Lähteenoja, Lasse Peltonen, Miikka Salo
2020
Capturing the micro-level of intermediation in transitions: Comparing ethnographic and interview methods
Pekka Murto, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni K. Juntunen, Mikko Jalas
2020
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Cumulative and Combined: Analyzing Methods Use in a Human-Centered Design Mature Company
Kaisa Savolainen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2020
JOURNAL OF USABILITY STUDIES
Havaintoja energiamurroksen etenemisestä - Smart Energy Transition -hankkeen valitut blogit vuosilta 2015–2019
Armi Temmes, Antti Majava, Jero Ahola, Kimmo Ollikka, Karoliina Auvinen, Hanna-Liisa Kangas, Samuli Honkapuro, Miimu Airaksinen, Ilkka Räsänen, Samuli Rinne, Francesco Reda, Salvatore Ruggiero, Eva Heiskanen, Sampsa Hyysalo, Saara Jääskeläinen, Eeva Primmer, Mikael Hildén, Jenni Happonen, Paula Kivimaa, Phil Johnstone, Kaisa Matschoss
2020
Depending on users : The case of over-snow motorized transport in Russia
Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Nikita Klyusov, Sampsa Hyysalo, Viktor Klimenko
2020
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Including services in design management
J. Tuomas Harviainen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2019
TOUCHPOINT: THE JOURNAL OF SERVICE DESIGN
Codesign for transitions governance: A Mid-range pathway creation toolset for accelerating sociotechnical change
Sampsa Hyysalo, Tatu Marttila, Sofi Perikangas, Karoliina Auvinen
2019
Design Studies
Developing policy pathways: Redesigning transition arenas for mid-range planning
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jani Lukkarinen, Paula Kivimaa, Raimo Lovio, Armi Temmes, Mikael Hildén, Tatu Marttila, Karoliina Auvinen, Sofi Perikangas, Allu Pyhälammi, Janne Peljo, Kaisa Savolainen, Louna Hakkarainen, Mikko Rask, Kaisa Matschoss, Timo Huomo, Annukka Berg, Mari Pantsar
2019
Sustainability (Switzerland)
Diversity and change of user driven innovation modes in companies
Sampsa Hyysalo, Petteri Repo, Päivi Timonen, Louna Hakkarainen, Eva Heiskanen
2019
Managing Innovation
Intermediate Codesigning in Transitions Governance: Catalysing and Channelling Participant Action
Sampsa Hyysalo, Sofi Perikangas, Tatu Marttila, Karoliina Auvinen
2019
Design Journal
Method Matters in the Social Study of Technology: Investigating the Biographies of Artifacts and Practices
Sampsa Hyysalo, Neil Pollock, Robin Williams
2019
Science & Technology Studies
The work of democratized design in setting-up a hosted citizen-designer community
Sampsa Hyysalo, Virve Hyysalo, Louna Hakkarainen
2019
International Journal of Design
Passing the baton: How intermediaries advance sustainability transitions in different phases
Paula Kivimaa, Sampsa Hyysalo, Wouter Boon, Laurens Klerkx, Mari Martiskainen, Johan Schot
2019
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Towards a typology of intermediaries in sustainability transitions: A systematic review and a research agenda
Paula Kivimaa, Wouter Boon, Sampsa Hyysalo, Laurens Klerkx
2019
Research Policy
An agenda for sustainability transitions research
Jonathan Köhler, Frank W. Geels, Florian Kern, Jochen Markard, Anna Wieczorek, Floortje Alkemade, Flor Avelino, Anna Bergek, Frank Boons, Lea Fünfschilling, David Hess, Georg Holtz, Sampsa Hyysalo, Kirsten Jenkins, Paula Kivimaa, Mari Martiskainen, Andrew McMeekin, Marie Susan Mühlemeier, Bjorn Nykvist, Elsie Onsongo, Bonno Pel, Rob Raven, Harald Rohracher, Björn Sandén, Johan Schot, Benjamin Sovacool, Bruno Turnheim, Dan Welch, Peter Wells
2019
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Empirical application of the multi-level perspective: tracing the history of ground-source heat pumps systems in Finland
Ville Lauttamäki, Sampsa Hyysalo
2019
SUSTAINABILITY: SCIENCE, PRACTICE, AND POLICY
Devices and strategies: An analysis of managing complexity in energy retrofit projects
Pekka Murto, Mikko Jalas, Jouni Juntunen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2019
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
The difficult process of adopting a comprehensive energy retrofit in housing companies: Barriers posed by nascent markets and complicated calculability
Pekka Murto, Mikko Jalas, Jouni Juntunen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2019
Energy Policy
Catalysing Pathway Creation for Transition Governance
Sampsa Hyysalo, Sofi Perikangas, Tatu Marttila, Karoliina Auvinen
2018
Proceedings of DRS 2018
Energy Internet forums as acceleration phase transition intermediaries
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni K. Juntunen, Mari Martiskainen
2018
Research Policy
The mundane and strategic work in collaborative design
Virve Hyysalo, Sampsa Hyysalo
2018
Design Issues
User Innovation and Peer Assistance in Small-Scale Renewable Energy Technologies
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni Juntunen
2018
The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society
Designing for energy transition through Value Sensitive Design
Luisa Mok, Sampsa Hyysalo
2018
Design Studies
Ecologies of user knowledge
Samuli Mäkinen, Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
2018
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
Murrosareenan muutospolkutyökalu
Sofi Perikangas, Sampsa Hyysalo
2018
Who 'uses' smart grids? The evolving nature of user representations in layered infrastructures
Antti Silvast, Robin Williams, Sampsa Hyysalo, Kjetil Rommetveit, Charles Raab
2018
Sustainability (Switzerland)
Organisational adoption of the lead user method
Pia Hannukainen, Samuli Mäkinen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2017
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS EXCELLENCE
Energy Internet Forums as acceleration phase transition Intermediaries
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni Juntunen, Mari Martiskainen
2017
International Sustainability Transitions Conference
The diffusion of consumer innovation in sustainable energy technologies
Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson, Jouni Juntunen
2017
Journal of Cleaner Production
Uusia näkymiä energiamurroksen Suomeen
Sampsa Hyysalo, Tatu Marttila, Armi Temmes, Raimo Lovio, Paula Kivimaa, Karoliina Auvinen, Allu Pyhälammi, Jani Lukkarinen, Janne Peljo
2017
Everyday experimentation in energy transition
Mikko Jalas, Sampsa Hyysalo, Eva Heiskanen, Raimo Lovio, Ari Nissinen, Maija Mattinen, Jenny Rinkinen, Jouni K. Juntunen, Pasi Tainio, Heli Nissilä
2017
Journal of Cleaner Production
Physical representations as a common language
Samuli Mäkinen, Pia Hannukainen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2017
Passion-based Co-creation
The Evolution of Intermediary Activities
Louna Hakkarainen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2016
Technology Innovation Management Review
Diversity and change of user driven innovation modes in companies
Sampsa Hyysalo, Petteri Repo, Päivi Timonen, Louna Hakkarainen, Eva Heiskanen
2016
International Journal of Innovation Management
Introduction to the new production of users
Sampsa Hyysalo, Torben Jensen, Nelly Oudshoorn
2016
The New Production of Users
Sosiologinen materia
Sampsa Hyysalo
2016
SOSIOLOGIA
The New Production of Users
Sampsa Hyysalo, Torben Jensen, Nelly Oudshoorn
2016
User representation
Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
2016
The New Production of Users
Designing for Sustainable Transition through Value Sensitive Design
Luisa Mok, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jenni Väänänen
2016
Proximal Design
Svetlana Usenyuk, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jack Whalen
2016
Technology and Culture
Intermediate search elements and method combination in lead-user searches
Sampsa Hyysalo, Pia Helminen, Samuli Mäkinen, Mikael Johnson, Jouni K. Juntunen, Stephanie Freeman
2015
International Journal of Innovation Management
Redrawing the landscape of designing for, with and by users
Sampsa Hyysalo
2015
Nordic Contributions in IS Research - 6th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2015, Proceedings
The User as Relational Entity: Options that Deeper Insight into User Representations Opens for Human-Centered Design.
Sampsa Hyysalo, M Johnson
2015
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND PEOPLE
User dominated technology era Dynamics of dispersed peer innovation
Sampsa Hyysalo, Svetlana Usenyuk
2015
Research Policy
Renewable micro-generation of heat and electricity - Review on common and missing socio-technical configurations
Jouni K. Juntunen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2015
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Anticipated environmental sustainability of personal fabrication
Cindy Kohtala, Sampsa Hyysalo
2015
Journal of Cleaner Production
Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of air-source heat pump and innovative ground-source air heat pump in a cold climate
Maija K. Mattinen, Ari Nissinen, Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni K. Juntunen
2015
Journal of Industrial Ecology
User involvement and radical innovation: the case of heat pumps in Finland
Eva Heiskanen, Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikko Jalas, Jouni Juntunen, Raimo Lovio
2014
The highways and byways to radical innovation : design perspectives
Collaborative futuring with and by makers
Sampsa Hyysalo, Cindy Kohtala, Pia Helminen, Samuli Mäkinen, Virve Miettinen, Lotta Muurinen
2014
CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts
Laajaa käyttäjälähtöisyyttä Tanskassa
Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson, Jouni Juntunen, Samuli Mäkinen, Stephanie Freeman, Louna Hakkarainen
2014
TEM raportteja 3/2014
What difference does a living lab make? Comparison of two health technology innovation projects
Sampsa Hyysalo, Louna Hakkarainen
2014
WORLD WIDE WEB-INTERNET AND WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS
From recipes to meals... and dietary regimes: method mixes as key emerging topic in human-centred design
Mikael Johnson, Sampsa Hyysalo, Samuli Mäkinen, Pia Helminen, Kaisa Savolainen, Louna Hakkarainen
2014
8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI'14), Helsinki, Finland, 26-20 October, 2014
The managed prosumer: evolving knowledge strategies in the design of infromation infrastructures
Mikael Johnson, Hajar Mozaffar, Gian Marco Campagnolo, Sampsa Hyysalo, Neil Pollock, Robin Williams
2014
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY
The business of being a user: the role of the reference actor in shaping packaged enterprise system acquisition and development
N Pollock, Sampsa Hyysalo
2014
MIS Quarterly
Guest editorial: Energy in society: energy systems and infrastructures in society - concluding issue
Antti Silvast, Hannu Hänninen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2014
Science and Technology Studies
Ageing together: Steps towards evolutionary co-design in everyday practices
Andrea Botero, Sampsa Hyysalo
2013
CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts
How Do We Keep the Living Laboratory Alive? Learning and Conflicts in Living Lab Collaboration
Louna Hakkarainen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2013
Technology Innovation Management Review
Co-designing the future health care
Sampsa Hyysalo, Sebastian Greger, Zagros Hatami
2013
Living+ for better living environments
Internet forums and the rise of the inventive energy user
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni K. Juntunen, Stephanie Freeman
2013
Science and Technology Studies
The dynamics of social practice: everyday life and how it changes
Sampsa Hyysalo
2013
Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
The User as a Relational Category
Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
2013
Co-Create 2013 The Boundary-Crossing Conference on Co-Design in Innovation, Espoo, Finland, June 16-19, 2013
User innovation in sustainable home energy technologies
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni K. Juntunen, Stephanie Freeman
2013
Energy Policy
Embracing New Ideas in User Driven Innovation Policy
Petteri Repo, Päivi Timonen, Eva Heiskanen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2013
Proceedings of the 2013 ISPIM Innovation Conference
Energy in Society: Energy Systems and Infrastructures in Society
Antti Silvast, Hannu Hänninen, Sampsa Hyysalo
2013
Science & Technology Studies
Local experimentation and societal learning for sustainability transitions - Does it work in practice?
Eva Heiskanen, Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikko Jalas, Jouni Juntunen, Helka Kuusi, Raimo Lovio, Jenny Rinkinen
2012
International Conference on Sustainability Transitions (IST) 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 29-31, 2012
Accumulation and erosion of user representations or how is situated design interaction situated
Sampsa Hyysalo
2012
Phenomenology, organizational politics, and IT design: the social study of information systems
Internet forums and citizen inventiveness in renewable energy
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni Juntunen, Stephanie Freeman
2012
Second Aalto Event on Science and Technology Studies: Energy in Society, Helsinki, Finland, 5-6 November, 2012
Taking user representations seriously: past, present and future
Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
2012
Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 17-20, 2012
User innovation in sustainable home energy technologies
Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni Juntunen, Stephanie Freeman
2012
Second Aalto Event on Science and Technology Studies: Energy in Society, Helsinki, Finland, 5-6 November, 2012
Lessons for participatory designers of social media: long-term user involvement strategies in industry
Mikael Johnson, Sampsa Hyysalo
2012
12th Participatory Design Conference (PDC), Roskilde, Denmark, August 12-16, 2012
Käyttäjätieto ja teknologian sosiaalinen muotoutuminen
Sampsa Hyysalo
2011
Ihmisen ja tietokoneen vuorovaikutus
Constructing innovative users and user-inclusive innovation communities
Eva Heiskanen, Sampsa Hyysalo, Tanja Kotro, Petteri Repo
2010
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
Health Technology Development and Use
Sampsa Hyysalo
2010
The virtuality of virtual worlds, or what we can learn from playacting horse girls and marginalized developers
Mikael Johnson, Sampsa Hyysalo, Sakari Tamminen
2010
SYMBOLIC INTERACTION
Käyttäjä tuotekehityksessä. Tieto, tutkimus, menetelmät.
Sampsa Hyysalo
2009
Learning for learning economy and social learning
Sampsa Hyysalo
2009
Research Policy
User innovation and everyday practices: micro-innovation in sports industry development
Sampsa Hyysalo
2009
R & D MANAGEMENT
The fog of innovation: Innovativeness and deviance in developing new clinical testing equipment
Maria Höyssä, Sampsa Hyysalo
2009
Research Policy
Intermediaries, Users and Social Learning in Technological Innovation
James Stewart, Sampsa Hyysalo
2008
International Journal of Innovation Management
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Design-Use Relationships in Sociotechnical Change
Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson, Eva Heiskanen
2007
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