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Podcast: Diseño y Diáspora
Episode: 372. Grassroots sustainability (Canadá/Finland/Sweden). An interview with Cindy Kohtala.
Description: Cindy Kohtala is a researcher, teacher, and writer in Design-for-Sustainability. Her focus is especially on everyday design, maker culture, and urban activism in sustainability transformation. She is a Professor in Design for Sustainability at Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden. She previously worked at Aalto University, Finland, in the INUSE Users and Innovation Research group and was PI of the postdoctoral research project Making the Next (Sustainable) Industrial Revolution from the Grassroots, funded by the Nessling Foundation. Here, you can read her doctoral dissertation Making Sustainability, awarded with Distinction, from Aalto ARTS books.
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