Joanna Saad-Sulonen

Senior Scientist
Senior Scientist
A803 Dept. Design

My research interest lies in participatory design. I argue for the necessity to combine various participatory approaches (e.g. in governance and urban planning) with participatory approaches in the design of digital media and IT. I have a particular interest in the Scandinavian Participatory Design approach to IT design and its expansion to design-in-use. I believe that this approach can provide much needed tools for handling many of the challenges of the digital age that relate to the need for better media literacy and a better understanding and possibility to be in control of the every day digital technologies that surround us. I am also interested in the way self-organized urban communities participate in shaping their ecologies of digital artifacts, and the consequences this has on possible collaborations with authorities as service providers.

Phone number
+358504722452

Publications

Designing for and with the 'Digital Citizen'

David S. Kirk, Suzan Boztepe, Jörn Christiansson, Amalia De Götzen, Nils Ehrenberg, Erik Grönvall, Shaun Lawson, Per Linde, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos 2024 DIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Scalar trajectories in design: The case of DIY cloth face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic

Andrea Botero, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2023 Artifact: Journal of Design Practice

Volunteer-based IT Helpdesks as Ambiguous Quasi-Public Services - a Case Study from Two Nordic Countries

Camilla Christensen, Nils Ehrenberg, Jörn Christiansson, Erik Grönvall, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Turkka Keinonen 2022 Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI’22)

PDC Place Nordic: participatory design in/for the digitalization of public services

Amalia De Götzen, Justyna Starostka, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Nils Ehrenberg, Per Linde 2022 PDC '22: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022: Exploratory Papers, Workshops, Places, Situated Actions and Doctoral Colloquium

Relationality, commoning, and designing

Giacomo Poderi, Sanna Maria Marttila, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Frederick M.C. Van Amstel, Maurizio Teli, Linda Tonolli, Vincenzo D'Andrea, Andrea Botero 2022 PDC '22: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022: Exploratory Papers, Workshops, Places, Situated Actions and Doctoral Colloquium

Visualizing Devices for Configuring Complex Phenomena in-the-Making

Helena Karasti, Andrea Botero, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Karen Baker 2021 Science and Technology Studies

On DIY Cloth Face Masks and Scalar Relationships in Design

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Andrea Botero, Mille Rosendahl Hansen 2021 Proceedings of Nordes 2021

Commoning design and designing commons

Andrea Botero, Sanna Marttila, Giacomo Poderi, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Anna Seravalli, Maurizio Teli, Frederick Van Amstel 2020 PDC '20 : Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference

Introduction

Chiara Del Gaudio, Leonardo Parra-Agudelo, Rachel Clarke, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Andrea Botero, Felipe César Londoño, Paula Escandón 2020 PDC '20: Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020

Drawing Together, Infrastructuring and Politics for Participatory Design

Andrea Botero, Helena Karasti, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Hanne Cecilie Geirbo, Karen Baker, Elena Parmiggiani, Sanna-Maria Marttila 2019

What does infrastructuring look like in STS? When? Workshop Report

Karen Baker, Andrea Botero , Hanne Cecilie Geirbo, Helena Karasti, Sanna-Maria Marttila, Elena Parmiggiani, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2018 EASST Review

(Challenges and opportunities of) documentation practices of self-organised urban initiatives

Andrea Botero , Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2018 Participatory Design Theory

Infrastructuring in PD

Helena Karasti, Andrea Botero, Elena Parmiggiani, Karen Baker, Sanna Marttila, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Hanne Cecilie Geirbo 2018 Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference / Democracy and Politics

Urban self-organising groups as users of digital artefacts - Nordic experiences

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Liisa Horelli-Kukkonen 2017 Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu

Co-designing and Commoning (ws)

Andrea Botero, Sanna Marttila, Frederik VamAmstel, Anna Seravalli, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2015 Nordes Digital Archive

When Self-Organization Intersects with Urban Planning

Liisa Horelli, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Sirkku Wallin, Andrea Botero 2015 Planning Practice and Research

Who needs us? Inquiring into the participatory practices of others and what they mean for participatory designers

Mariana Salgado, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2015 The Value of Design Research, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Paris Descartes University, Institute of Psychology, Boulogne Billancourt, France,

Towards commons design in participatory design

Sanna Marttila, Andrea Botero, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2014 PDC '14 Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts - Volume 2

KIPINÄ Kantaaottavaa nykytaidetta ja muotoilua / Spark Critical Contemporary Art and Design

Andrea Botero, Kari-Hans Kommonen, Sanna Marttila, Mariana Salgado, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Taina Rajanti 2013

Peer production in public services? Emerging themes for design research and action

Andrea Botero, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2013 Public and Collaborative - Exploring the Intersection of Design, Social Innovation and Public Policy

Multiple Participations

Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2013 New approaches to urban planning : insights from participatory communities

Introduction

Andrea Botero, Andrew Paterson, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2012 Towards Peer-production in Public Services: cases from Finland

Towards Peer-production in Public Services: cases from Finland

Andrea Botero, Andrew Paterson, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2012

Community Informatics and Participatory E-Planning in the Glocal Context

Liisa Horelli, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Sirkku Wallin 2012 Proceedings of CIRN 2012 Community Informatics Conference: 'Ideals meet Reality'

A long-term strategy for designing (in) the wild: lessons from the Urban Mediator and traffic planning in Helsinki

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Andrea Botero, Kari Kuutti 2012 DIS '12 Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference

CoMeUp

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Aapo Rista, Sara Jacobsen 2012

The role of the creation and sharing of digital media content in participatory e-planning

Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2012 International Journal of E-Planning Research

Exploring E-Planning practices in Different Contexts: Similarities and Differences Between Helsinki and Sydney

Sirkku Wallin, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Marco Amati, Liisa Horelli 2012 International Journal of E-Planning Research

Enhancing citizenship: the role of in-between infrastructures

Andrea Botero, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2010 Proceedings of the 11th Participatory Design Conference. Participation the challenge

eParticipation as an Information Ecology: a micro-scale examination of two cases in Helsinki

Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2010 Proceeding OZCHI '10 Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction.

The Urban Mediator as a tool for public participation: a case of collaboration between designers and city planners

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Andrea Botero 2010 Digital tools in participatory planning

The value of Community Informatics to participatory urban planning and design: a case-study in Helsinki

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Liisa Horelli 2010 Journal of Community Informatics

Co-construction through Complex Adaptive System

Salil Sayed, Abhi Singh, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Lily Díaz-Kommonen 2010 Journal of Community Informatics

Conclusions - Towards an ecology of digital tool as embedded in participatory e-planning

Sirkku Wallin, Liisa Horelli, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2010 Digital tools in participatory planning

Digital tools in participatory planning

Sirkku Wallin, Liisa Horelli, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2010

Digital Tools in Participatory Planning

Sirkku Wallin, Liisa Horelli, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2010

CI-assisted participatory planning and design as a perspective to ICT-mediated participation: a case-study in Helsinki

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Liisa Horelli 2009 Prato Community CIRN conference 2009, 4-6 November

Community Informatics-assisted participatory planning as a perspective to ICT-mediated participation: a case-study in Helsinki

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Liisa Horelli 2009 Proceedings of Community Informatics Conference 2009

Using On-Line Maps for Community-Generated Content in Museums

Mariana Salgado, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2009 Museums and the Web 2009: Proceedings

Co-designing with web.py: Urban Mediator

Roman Suzi, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Andrea Botero 2009 Python magazine

Co-designing for new city-citizen interaction possibilities: weaving prototypes and interventions in the design and development of Urban Mediator.

Andrea Botero, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2008 Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference Experiences and Challenges 08

Mapping social practices through collaborative exercises and visualizations

Andrea Botero, Anne Luotonen, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2008 Proceedings of NordiCHI 2008: Using Bridges

Everyday Life in the Interactive City: exploring the potentials of interweaving digital technologies and urban space

Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2008 The Electronic City. Future Urban Research in Europe Volume 1

Urban Mediator v.2.0

Roman Suzi, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Joonas Juutilainen, Mark van der Putten, Andrea Botero , Abhigyan Singh, Tuomo Tarkiainen, Eirik Fatland 2008

Designing Urban Mediator

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Roman Suzi 2007 Proceedings of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UNEXPECTED Conference

Introducing Urban Mediator: concept and work in progress

Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2007 Research and Activism: 4th Urban Studies Days Conference proceedings

Urban Mediator alpha

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Roman Suzi, Mika Myller, Andrea Botero 2007

Urban Mediator HELSINKI DEMO (open to public)

Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Roman Suzi, Andrea Botero 2007

Villikanitilanne Helsingissä webbisivut

Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2007

UNESCO Young Digital Creators - Educator’s Kit

Anna Salmi, Teemu Leinonen, Joanna Saad-Sulonen 2006

Urban Mediator Stage 1

Roman Suzi, Tommi Raivio, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Taina Rajanti 2006