TURNS Spring Party (28 May 2025)

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TURNS Spring Party

  • Venue: Lyhty building and the inner yard (Tampere University Main Building, Kalevantie 4)
  • Time: Wednesday 28 May, starting at 14:30
  • At 14:30-16:00: Minilectures and strategy launch (FULL)
  • At 16:00-20:00: Mingling, drinks, snacks and puistojortsut
  • Free entrance
  • Sign up here by 26 May > REGISTRATION

Welcome to celebrate the spring and the first year of TURNS research platform at the Tampere University. You will get to know people behind TURNS and hear about their research in short minilectures. We will also present the new strategy of TURNS and some future prospects for urban research. Later in the afternoon and evening, there will be free mingling, drinks, snacks and dancing!

Program

14:30  Welcome

14:40  Minilectures (confirmed speakers thus far)

  • Juho Rajaniemi (TURNS management group)​: Planning a multispecies city
  • Marjaana Niemi ​(TURNS management group): Managing the city, making modern citizens
  • Annalisa Sannino (TURNS management group): Homelessness as a systemic urban challenge
  • Riina Lundman (TURNS coordination group)​: Towards a more neurodiverse city
  • Kimmo Rönkä (TURNS advisory board)​: Asuma housing concept

15:30  TURNS strategy launch

15:45  Urban research futures and prospects

16:00- Drinks, snacks and mingling

16:10 TURNS 1 year photo cavalcade

16:30 Puistojortsut* by DJ Kinky Hokkaido

The event ends latest at 20.

*Puistojortsut is a gentle and playful moment of shared dancing under the open sky – no instructions, no choreography, just music, grass, and bodies slowly tuning into movement, almost by accident. No one looks at you strangely – come as you are, sway, leap, or sigh: every way of being is welcome.

Welcome!

More information: Riina Lundman (riina.lundman@tuni.fi) / TURNS