Sociologist and Digital Artisan
Advocating constructively critical engagement with technology, my creative practice deals with use/non-use, accessibility, privacy, empowerment, digital literacy, and underlying societal questions. I tinker with language, code, and media.
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Berlin, Germany
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About
I challenge conventional framings of digital design in society. As an independent (re)searcher, my work covers technology non-use and neo-luddism, interactive forms of legal design, digital sovereignity and literacy, and many other topics that put people before code and algorithms.
Currently based in Berlin, I live and work pan-European, in English, Finnish, and German. My MSocSc in Sociology is from Tampere University, and my MA in New Media from Media Lab Helsinki at Aalto University. My pronouns are he/him.
In the past, I taught factory workers how to operate complex factory automation systems and worked as a senior designer at digital agencies in Helsinki (Satama Interactive, Valve). I've also been an educator at Aalto University and in the private sector, alongside one and a half decades of freelance work.
When not at my desk, I am likely to be found tinkering with, and riding on, human-powered vehicles with two wheels; the foldable kind in particular.