Communities & Technologies 2023 is starting today with workshops. Our volunteers are ready to register you 👋 LUTsoftware LUT University 🚀

This week, #Lahti plays host to the 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. The event welcomes researchers, designers, educators, industry & students from the many disciplines on the interaction between community and technology. LUT University 🚀 EUSSET

Day two of C&T 2023 is starting with a day full of interesting workshops. We are waiting for you at the registration. Don't forget to grab your name tag for the welcome reception in the evening. We will be going on a boat to lake Vesijärvi LUTsoftware LUT University 🚀

Day two has begun and our workshops are underway. Here for example the workshop "Designing the City: Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Public Service Design" LUTsoftware LUT University 🚀 EUSSET

Please remember that our welcome reception (Cruise on Lake Vesijärvi) is today and starts at 19:15. We will meet in front of Sibelius Hall at 18:50 sharp! The welcome reception is for all participants (workshops and conference) LUTsoftware EUSSET

Today we had our welcome reception on a boat on lake Vesijärvi. Tomorrow we start our main conference in Sibelius Hall LUTsoftware LUT University 🚀 EUSSET

Communities & Technologies 2023 is officially starting!! #comtech2023

Main conference starts today in the beautiful Sibelius Hall with an interesting keynote by Professor Allan Owens on "Venturing into the forest of things: arts-based encounters" EUSSET LUTsoftware

Tomorrow I will present our exciting paper on Biodiversity Urban Living Labs Communities & Technologies 2023! We build on & extend the City Commons model of Balestrini et al. with a more-than-human perspective in the context of biodiversity. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1145/359374…

Natasha Tylosky from LUTsoftware LUT University 🚀 is presenting her paper on User Experience for Non-Expert Audiences in Data Exploration EUSSET

We are at our community event now in Theatrum Olga (instagram.com/theatrumolga?i…) LUTsoftware EUSSET

Thanks Rosta Farzan for helping us navigate the challenges to enable digital transformation programmes for underrepresented communities. Community Collaborative Research at its best! @C&T2023, comtech2023 @frostaf

Day two started. Karolina Drobotowicz is presenting her paper on Practitioners’ Perspectives on Inclusion and Civic Empowerment in Finnish Public Sector AI EUSSET LUTsoftware

Really proud of Lucas Anastasiou, who just submitted his PhD Thesis yesterday and then cached a flight to present our work with Aldo de Moor and Dr Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social @C&T2023. Well done Lucas! KMi comtech2023 Lara S G Piccolo

Exciting work from Geertje Slingerland on combining community co-design with HCI for biodiversity. We need more eco-centred approaches in HCI Communities & Technologies 2023 Check it out @ dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Fascinating findings on how Augmented Reality can be used to preserve cultural heritage and in particular communities' relationship with the ocean. “The app name is Eftu Letu Sida Hurib” which means: “One with the Ocean”. BEAUTIFUL!!! Marly Muudeni Samuel Communities & Technologies 2023 @C&T2023.

Congratulation to Sarah Armouch for her Best Paper Award @C&T2023 for her work on “Supporting innovation in a context of uncertainty”. Thanks for sharing insights on how C&T researchers&practitioners can help enable social transformation in contexts of uncertainty. comtech2023

Final session of today. Chris Muashekele presents his paper on Ancestral and Cultural Futuring: Speculative Design in an Indigenous OvaHimba context EUSSET LUTsoftware

Great talk from Rikke Hagensby Jensen on the role of “collective, fun and aestetically pleasing experiences for energy communities to provoke and trigger new way of understanding eco-feedback” Communities & Technologies 2023 @C&T2023

🥳 Congrats to Sarah Armouch, @vasilisvla & Shelina Visram for winning a Best Paper award for 'Supporting innovation in a context of uncertainty: the role of design and technology' at Communities & Technologies 2023 in Finland! ➡️ dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…