Few facts about the curator
Name one superpower that makes you different from the others.
For whatever reasons I’m very comfortable with uncertainty and not knowing what exactly we’ll create in a project and how. That’s why I often end up exploring the problem space in depth before starting to deliver anything tangible. Sometimes it annoys other people who are used to designers being very solution-oriented but they get used to it with time and become slightly less annoyed.
Something you feel very grateful for when looking back on your career.
Working with fantastic clients who continuously open my horizons and help me learn new things without expecting me to be a domain expert in what they’re doing, my super supportive colleagues at Futurice, and a number of people in my Aalto University network who inspire me every day with their thinking and attitude.
Most interesting design case you’ve worked with.
Lots of them but if I had to pick one where we had the most fun then it’s definitely a project with Nokia Bell Labs on the role of Trusted Computing in safety-critical systems. I have been a fan of Bell Labs since I was a teenager and the project was better than anything I imagined. We got to hang out in the lab a lot, built a real-size remote hospital, and used design fiction to come up with future scenarios, this was a real blast!