Projects

2023-2025

Winning Spatial Solutions for Future Work, Enabling the Double Twin Transition of Digital/Green and Virtual/Physical Transforming our Societies by 2035 (T-Winning Spaces 2035)

Consortium between Aalto University (project coordinator), Tampere University and the University of Turku funded by the Research Council of Finland's Special RRF funding for research on key areas of green and digital transition 2022. Researchers at SPREAD: Jenni Poutanen

2023-2024

Visualising Our Future Public Realm Together (VOF)

Collaboration with Aalto University, the Royal College of Art, London-based company SmartViz and five Finnish architecture and engineering companies (ALA Architects, Muuan, Olla Architecture, Lukkaroinen Architects and Sitowise). Project funded by Business Finland within the Sustainable Growth Program for Finland. Funding from NextGenerationEU through the European Union's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Researchers at SPREAD: Fernando Nieto, Rosana Rubio-Hernández, Simon Kay-Jones

2023-

Wondering and Disclosedness: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Solitude in the Built Environment

Researcher: Xianwen Zheng. Supervisors: Fernando Nieto, Rosana Rubio

2022-2023

Older Adults' Loneliness and Social Isolation

Collaboration between Brunel University London and Tampere University. Project funded by Research England funded I3 strategic collaboration project and Tampere University's seed funding. Researchers at SPREAD: Fernando Nieto, Rosana Rubio-Hernández

2021-2024

2021-2022

Implementation of Contextual Complexity in AI-based Assessment Systems of Older People's Social Isolation (AIsola)

Project for interdisciplinary research with Tampere University's and external partners within The Intelligent Society Platform (INSO), an Academy of Finland funded (2019-23) profiling action that seeks to strengthen cooperation on the TAU strategy axis society–technology. Consortium: SPREAD (coordinator, Faculty of Built Environment); ETLab Emerging Technologies Laboratory (Faculty of Social Sciences); Centre of Excellence on Research in Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare), GEREC Gerontology Research Centre (Faculty of Social Sciences); FAST-Lab. Future Automation Systems and Technologies Laboratory (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences); TLTPOS Signal Processing for Wireless Positioning Group (Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences). External partner: Sointu Senioripalvelut (Tampere). Researchers at SPREAD: Fernando Nieto, Rosana Rubio-Hernández

2020-2023

Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments (RESCUE)

Consortium between Aalto University (project coordinator), Tampere University and the University of Turku funded by the Academy of Finland. Researchers at SPREAD: Jenni Poutanen

2020-2022

Sheld-on. Smart Habitat for the Elderly

Participation in EU COST Action 'Sheld-on. Indoor living space improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly' (CA16226). Working Group 4 'Solutions for Ageing Well at Home, in the Community and at Work'. Researchers at SPREAD: Fernando Nieto, Rosana Rubio-Hernández

2020-2021

Intelligent Social Technologies Enhancing Community Interaction and Sustainable Use of Shared Living Spaces in Superblocks (SocialBlock)

Project for interdisciplinary research with Tampere University's and external partners within The Intelligent Society Platform (INSO), an Academy of Finland funded (2019-23) profiling action that seeks to strengthen cooperation on the TAU strategy axis society–technology. Consortium: IHTE Human-Centered Technology (coordinator, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences); ETLab Emerging Technologies Laboratory (Faculty of Social Sciences); POLEIS Politics of Space and the Environment (Faculty of Management and Business); SPREAD (Faculty of Built Environment); CME Construction Management and Economics (Faculty of Built Environment). External partner: Hiedanrannan Kehitys Oy (Tampere). Researchers at SPREAD: Fernando Nieto, Rosana Rubio-Hernández

2020

Building for a Healthy Climate (Build4Clima)

Co-creation project funded by Business Finland in collaboration with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The project's vision is to build for a healthy climate with materials that support people's health and well-being. External partners: national and international companies and architecture offices. Researchers at SPREAD: Fernando Nieto, Simon Kay-Jones, Rosana Rubio-Hernández

2019-2021

2019-2021

Turku Science Park as a Laboratory for Creative Encounters and the Development of Interactive Urban Culture

Original project's title: Turun tiedepuisto luovien kohtaamisten laboratoriona ja vuorovaikutteisen kaupunkikulttuurin kehittäjänä. Consortium between the City of Turku (Turku Urban Research Programme, funding partner), the University of Turku's School of Economics, Centre for Collaborative Research (collaborator) and Tampere University's Faculty of Built Environment (collaborator). Researchers at SPREAD: Jenni Poutanen

2019-2020

Social Robots and Ambient Assisted Living: the Independence and Isolation Balance (SOCIETAL)

SOCIETAL aims to address the inherent contradiction between the will for autonomy and the risk of loneliness in ICT solutions and robotics employed for elderly care from the multidisciplinary perspective of the social sciences, technology and architecture. Pilot project within The Intelligent Society Platform (INSO), an Academy of Finland funded (2019-23) profiling action that seeks to strengthen cooperation on the TAU strategy axis society–technology. Consortium: SPREAD (coordinator, Faculty of Built Environment); RobotsUs (Faculty of Social Sciences); ROSE Robotics and the Future of Welfare Services (Faculty of Social Sciences); TLTPOS Signal Processing for Wireless Positioning Group (Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences). Researchers at SPREAD: Fernando Nieto, Rosana Rubio-Hernández

2019-

Experiencing Biomaterial Agency through Spatial Assemblages: How the Material World Energises Spatial Experiences

The project addresses the emergent intersection between spatial and experiential design with biomaterial agency and explores the development of a theoretical framework to understand how materials and their assemblages produce spatial qualities, how those qualities may be measured, and how through the architectural project this understanding can lead to the implementation of new design strategies and tools in spatial assemblage for architects. Researcher: Simon Kay-Jones. Supervisor: Fernando Nieto

2019

Ease of Space: Design Framework for Smart Age-Friendly Cities (EoS)

EoS is a multidisciplinary project addressing the challenge posed in cities worldwide by the unprecedented increase in life expectancy with the twofold goal of delivering a design framework and transferable methodology as well as building an international and multisector network of experts, stakeholders, and communities in the context of age-friendly cities. Researcher: Rosana Rubio-Hernández. Supervisor: Fernando Nieto