Academic sustainable design research partner available

My research group NODUS in Aalto University, Finland, studies design solutions, business models, bottom up initiatives and governance innovations which hold potential to contribute to sustainability. We utilise and promote transdisciplinary research and co-creative approaches in knowledge generation. Socio-ecological-technological system transformations, sustainability science, practice theory, participatory and collaborative design, and futures studies are the central concepts for the group.

NODUS researchers focus on a diversity of empirical contexts including self-organised communities, urban, business, provisional systems such as energy, water, food and transport, and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders such as businesses, non-governmental organisations, policy makers, activists, and local and international academics from other research groups and organisations.

NODUS research group supports sustainability education through the interdisciplinary Creative Sustainability Masters’ programme at Aalto University.

Particularly interested in NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02: Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods