Tampere Urban Research Afternoon (9 October 2025)

Tampere

What kind of urban research is conducted at Tampere University? How do we want to evolve as a research community? Welcome to present your ongoing research, tentative ideas, research group or project!

Tampere Urban Research Afternoon

  • Place: Youth culture centre Monitoimitalo 13 (Pellavatehtaankatu 4, Tampere)
  • Time: Thursday 9 October at 12:00-16:00
  • Sign up by 3 October here
  • Add the event in your calendar via TUNI intranet

The event is divided into two sections. First, we will hear 6-minute Pecha Kuchas or other short presentations from Tampere urban researchers on their research, projects, research groups and teaching. Second, we will have a workshop to discuss the future direction of the Tampere urban research community.

Program (tentative)

12:00 Coffee and mingling

12:15 Welcoming words

12:30 Pecha Kucha presentations I

  • Dalia Milian Bernal: The home as a space of work
  • Anna-Kaisa Viitanen: Air quality measurements in urban environments
  • Mario Kolkwitz: Cities of flows: How construction and demolition shape building stocks
  • Lotta Sihvo-Matikainen: Action4Commons: biodiversity in mining industry

13:20 More coffee / break

13:30 Pecha Kucha presentations II

  • Kaisa Väänänen: Human-Centered AI Design for Urban Wellbeing
  • Anna Kobierska: JUSTSPACES research network
  • Pauliina Lehtonen: Urban Prosumers
  • Katja Maununaho: INNATURE: NBS innovations for biodiversity and social inclusion

14:20 Workshop

  • Tampere Urban Research Community (Antti Wallin & Anni Jäntti)
    • Key themes (incl. results of the questionnaire)
  • Tampere Urban Labs (Markus Laine & Salla Jokela)
  • TURNS Strategy (Panu Lehtovuori)
  • Landing page + communications (Riina Lundman)

15:30 Wrap up: Future of the Tampere Urban Research Community

15:45 Closing words

Changes possible.

After the event, there is a chance to join others for an after-work (at one’s own cost).

The event is organized in collaboration between TURNS, STUE and SUD.

More information: Antti Wallin / STUE (antti.wallin@tuni.fi) & Riina Lundman / TURNS (riina.lundman@tuni.fi).

Welcome!