Past event
Design Participation Seminar -- Professor Sampsa Hyysalo at St Andrews Changing roles of users in innovation and research
Join us for a special seminar hosted by the St Andrews Human-Computer Interaction (SACHI) Research Group, featuring visiting speaker Professor Sampsa Hyysalo from Aalto University, Finland.
In this seminar, organised by SACHI and The IDEA Network in Open Knowledge Research, Professor Hyysalo will introduce themes from his forthcoming book Design Participation (September 2025), which explores how design can actively support social and environmental transformation. Drawing on more than 20 years of research, he will reflect on the role of participatory design and user innovation in shaping collaborative responses to complex challenges in areas such as health technology, energy transition, and public sector reform.
Rather than offering fixed solutions, the talk will explore how design can help create the conditions in which communities, policymakers, practitioners and others co-develop meaningful and inclusive interventions.
This talk will be of particular interest to those engaged in:
- interdisciplinary research involving community and policy engagement
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- systems design and sustainable innovation
- practice-led research or public service transformation
Sampsa Hyysalo is a Professor of Co-Design at Aalto University in Finland, with research spanning participatory design, user communities, open innovation, design ethnography, and sustainability transitions.psa:
His books include:
- The New Production of Users: Changing Innovation Collectives and Involvement Strategies (Routledge, 2016)
- Citizen Activities in Energy Transition (Open Access, 2021)
- Health Technology Development and Use (Routledge, 2010)
If you plan to attend, please email Dr Abd Alsattar Ardati at [email protected] so we can keep track of numbers. Further details will be shared closer to the event.