Provoking the city—touch installations for urban space

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• Available online: 02 Nov 2011

Author affiliations

• ^a Department of Media, School of Art and Design, Aalto University E-mail:
• ^b Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki E-mail:
• ^c Crucible Studio Research Group, Department of Media, School of Art and Design, Aalto University E-mail:

Author biographies

Heidi Tikka is a practising media artist whose work explores the intimacy of the everyday and its emerging socio-technical reconfigurations. Her work consists of media art installations, as well as experimental platforms for initiating social and dialogical processes. She is currently completing her PhD at the Department of Media of Aalto University School of Art and Design. Her thesis work, ‘Networks of Production’, inquires into the labour of media art production and particularly those invisible aspects of it which are usually left out of the narratives describing the completed work. Since 2008 she has worked as the production consultant for AVEK, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture, which funds the majority of media art in Finland.

Sandra Viña is a designer currently concentrating on design research from a practice-based approach. Her research work consists of making, acting and engaging in the context of city places. It also deals with participatory approaches taking a perspective on design activism through experiments and interventions in public spaces. At present she is completing her PhD at the Department of Design of Aalto University School of Art and Design. She has presented her research work at various international conferences and seminars. She has also worked as an artist and has held several art exhibitions internationally.

Giulio Jacucci is Professor of Networking and Data Communication at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Helsinki. He is Director of the Network Society Programme at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, HIIT. He was Professor at the Department of Design of Aalto University from October 2009 to December 2010. He previously worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt and the Vienna University of Technology. He participates in organising and in the programme committees of several Association for Computing Machinery conferences in the area of human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing. Professor Jacucci is currently coordinator of BeAware, a FP7 EU ICT project involving eight international partners (http://www.energyawareness.eu), featured on Euronews and awarded the Nokia Mindtrek Ubimedia Award 2010.  He is also co-founder and chairman of the board of MultiTouch Ltd. (http://multitouch.fi), a company commercialising products for scalable multi-touch screens.

Teemu Korpilahti is a new media professional with a background in graphical user interface design and rich media productions. He graduated (MA in new media) from the Media Lab of Helsinki University of Art and Design in December 2009. He also has a BA degree in multimedia production from the Institute of Design of Lahti University of Applied Sciences (2005). He is currently working as a creative designer and technical expert at Bolder Helsinki. He has previously worked as a graphic/web designer for Crasman Co. Ltd. and as a researcher at Crucible Studio, which is a research group in the School of Art and Design of the new Aalto University.