Biography
I work as a PhD researcher in the field of ethnology at the Department of History and Ethnology.
My research interests are related to Finnish material culture, everyday design, objects and cultural heritage. I have a Master of Arts degree in Art Education and I also have an Artisan degree. I have also studied museology and ethnology.
The working title of my doctoral dissertation is Furniture as cultural heritage and everyday object – Asko's design in the 1950s.
In addition, I work as a research seminar coordinator at the Department of History and Ethnology and as a communication secretary for Hela Researchers' Association.
Research interests
My PhD thesis deals with Finnish industrial furniture design during the golden age and reconstruction period of the 1950s from the perspective of everyday objects. My research focuses on Asko's furnitures. My research task is to study what kinds of discourses have been constructed around Asko's furniture design in a specific social and cultural context, and to illustrate the process of Asko's furniture becoming a classic and part of cultural heritage. The perspective is ethnological, focusing on the study of everyday material culture and cultural heritage.