Tuuli Mattelmäki
PHD, Full Professor in Design
Vice Dean of Research
(she/her)
tuuli.mattelmaki@aalto.fi
Vice Dean of Research
(she/her)
tuuli.mattelmaki@aalto.fi
Tuuli's research starts with empathic and human-centered design and she embeds creative approaches in her research in diverse ways. She has worked with public sector and service design related projects, and more recently with questions that address creative practices and transformational futures.
I am in love with wind-shaped trees and enjoy walks by the sea.
Latest publications
Viewpoint: advancing service design with practitioners’ insights
Martina Caic, Nuria Solsona Caba, Tuuli Mattelmäki
2025
Journal of Services Marketing
How to talk of and evaluate relationality in design research and practice?
Tuuli Mattelmäki, Ann Light, Andrea Botero, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Markéta Dolejšová
2025
Proceedings of Nordes 2025: Relational Design, 6-8 August, Oslo, Norway
What do We Design with the Public Sector? Disentangling Service Design Deliverables in Education
Nuria Solsona Caba, Martina Caic, Tuuli Mattelmäki
2025
International Journal of Design
Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory
Markéta Dolejšová, Andrea Botero, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Michal Mitro, Agnieszka Pokrywka, Chewie Škubánek, Tuuli Mattelmäki
2024
Research in Arts and Education
Prototyping as a translational practice within cross-organizational B2B service innovation
Jaana Hyvärinen, Tuuli Mattelmäki
2024
DRS2024: Boston
9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations
Joost Vervoort, Tara Smeenk, Iryna Zamuruieva, Lisa L. Reichelt, Mae van Veldhoven, Lucas Rutting, Ann Light, Lara Houston, Ruth Wolstenholme, Markéta Dolejšová, Anab Jain, Jon Ardern, Ruth Catlow, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Zeynep Falay von Flittner, Jana Putrle Srdic, Julia Lohmann, Carien Moossdorff, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Cristina Ampatzidou, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Andrea Botero, Kyle A. Thompson, Jonas Torrens, Richard Lane, Astrid C. Mangnus
2024
Ecology and Society
CreaTures Framework
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Markéta Dolejšová, Lara Houston, Ann Light, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Joost Vervoort, Richard Lane, Iryna Zamuruieva, Ruth Wolstenholme, Milja Komulainen, Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos
2023
CreaTures Laboratory: Experimental Contributions to Sustainability-oriented Cultural Transformations
Markéta Dolejšová, Andrea Botero, Tuuli Mattelmäki
2023
Turning inwards for change : The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design
Kirsi Hakio, Tuuli Mattelmäki
2023
Design Journal
Design types in diversified city administration: The case City of Helsinki
Sampsa Hyysalo, Kaisa Savolainen, Antti Pirinen, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Päivi Hietanen, Meri Virta
2023
Design Journal