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SARANTOU AUGUSTA CHILION MELANIE
 
Organization
Faculty of Design Department of Strategic Design Professor
Center for Designed Futures of Kyushu University (Concurrent)
School of Design Department of Design(Concurrent)
Graduate School of Design Department of Design(Concurrent)
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Professor
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Profile
Professor of Social Design International Liaison, Centre for Designed Futures Kyushu University
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  • https://kyushu-u.pure.elsevier.com/ja/persons/melanie-sarantou

    My interests lie in the role of improvisation in arts and design practices when the unsuspected emerges and surprises the researcher. I explore how the haptic and tactile qualities of arts and narrative practices can sustain marginalized communities, mitigating societal challenges while my PhD holistically mapped Namibian craft and design through a postcolonial lens.

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetics and art studies

Degree

  • MTech (Fashion Design), Tshwane University of Technology

  • MBA (Marketing), Australian Institute of Business

  • PhD (Visual Art), University of South Australia

Research History

  • Kyushu University Faculty of Design Department of Design Strategy Professor Professor Social Design

    2023.4 - Present

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    Country:Japan

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  • University of Lapland Faculty of Art and Design Adjunct Professor / Title of Docent

    2021 - Present

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    Country:Finland

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  • University of Lapland Faculty of Art and Design Senior Researcher

    2018.1 - 2022.4

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    Country:Finland

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  • From 2016 (Ongoing) Adjunct Professor, University of Lapland, Finland 2021, Title of Docent (Arts-based Methods in Social Design, Cum Laude); Adjunct Professor (University of Lapland, Finland) Adjunct Professor (Social Design) Research Fellow, Project Coordinator AMASS (Acting on the margins: Arts as social sculpture), H2020 Project (2020-2022); Work Package (WP) Leader, WP6 (Project Management and Coordination), H2020 Project (2020-2022). Senior Researcher (Project D: PromoTing Sustainable PRactices for Digitalizing IndigenoUS CulTural Heritage - Global North and South Juxtaposed (TRUST); Work Package (WP) Leader and Principal Investigator (2022-2024). Coordinating research and education grant writing, including the coordination of large consortiums: Horizon Europe, Erasmus Mundus, Op HEI-ICI, Finish Academy, Kone Foundation. Research supervision of PhD candidates in the areas of artistic research, social design and service design. Senior Researcher, TRUST Project (2022 – 2024), University of Lapland Strategic Funding. 2010-2014, PhD Researcher, Visual Art and Design, University of South Australia. Grant funded PhD Researcher (Namibian Government Student Training Program), Australia. Research themes in areas of identities, narrativity, postcoloniality, improvisation 1998 - 2007, Lecturer, Fashion Design, University of Namibia, Department of Visual Arts, Lecturer (Fashion Design), Namibia Lecturing Fashion (undergraduate level, distance education), Curriculum development (Fashion Design), development of course materials (Fashion Design)

Research Interests・Research Keywords

  • Research theme:Social Design, Arts-based Research, Strategic Design, Arts-based Methods, Cultural Policy, Fashion Design

    Keyword:Social Design, Arts-based Research, Strategic Design, Arts-based Methods, Cultural Policy, Fashion Design

    Research period: 2024

  • Research theme:PromoTing Sustainable PRactices for Digitalizing IndigenoUS CulTural Heritage - Global North and South Juxtaposed (TRUST)

    Keyword:Social design, cultural heritage, design solutions by communities

    Research period: 2023.5

Papers

  • Collaborative art and storytelling as an empowering tool for social design. Invited Reviewed International journal

    Akimenko, D., Sarantou, M. & Miettinen, S.

    Routledge Publishers   60 - 75   2023.1

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003227557

  • Reflections in water: Displaying political agency through costume, performance and video Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Studies in Costume & Performance   7 ( 1 )   109 - 126   2022.5

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    DOI: 10.1386/scp_00063_1

  • Arts-Based Research: Why Push the Boundaries of Creativity in Research ?

    SARANTOU Melanie

    39   11 - 16   2024.3   ISSN:13490915

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    New thinking about arts-based research (ABR) and how it functions to achieve its ambitions is needed. ABR needs to be extended from arts-based expression and enquiry to arts-based analysis to produce reliable data as a result of best practices. However, how arts-based methods (ABMs) work in research processes and how they are applied as working principles in all research phases have not been widely discussed. This article seeks to take a step back to the basic patterns of human thinking to understand why ABMs can be effective in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) research fields with many existing unknowns. The ABMs of creating cultural probes and the analytical method of collaborative visual analysis (CVA) for creating more plural and collaborative analytical processes will be explored. In the humanities and social sciences fields, the transferability of these methods can benefit qualitative and mixed research approaches.

    DOI: 10.15017/7170828

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  • Spatial Entanglements from South to North Invited Reviewed International journal

    Qureshi, Amna; Sarantou, Melanie; Pietarinen, Heidi; Miettinen, Satu

    Design Research Society, Textile Intersections   2024.2

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21606/TI-2023/104

  • An Education Model for Creating Engagement in SDG Action. Reviewed International journal

    Zhang, Y., Sarantou, M., & Cruz, C. (2023).

    The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, 29 November - 1 December 2023, London, United Kingdom.   2024.2

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2024.053

  • The Entrepreneurial Fashion Designer as an Agent of Sustainable Innovation: A Namibian Case Study Invited Reviewed

    Chakirra Claasen, Cyrlene Claasen, Melanie Sarantou

    Art and Sustainability Transitions in Business and Society   177 - 206   2024.2

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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44219-3_9

  • Arts-Based Research: Why Push the Boundaries of Creativity in Research? Invited Reviewed

    Sarantou, Melanie

    Geijutsu Kogaku: The Journal of Design, Vol. 39, 2024, pp. 1-16.   2024.2

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  • “I will now be more aware”: The Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Indigenous Artmaking in Living Cultural Heritage. Invited Reviewed International journal

    2024.2

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  • Design with More than Humans: Reimagining Social Biomimicry through Collaborations in Learning, Performance and Coauthorship Invited Reviewed International journal

    Tokushu Inamura & Melanie Sarantou

    WDO Research and Education Forum, World Design Assembly 2023 in Tokyo (Japan), Design Beyond / Design with More than Humans: Reimagining Social Biomimicry through Collaborations in Learning, Performance and Co-authorship   2024.1

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  • "I will now be more aware": The Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Indigenous Artmaking in Living Cultural Heritage

    Sarantou, M; Qureshi, A; Jones, S; Gunter, S

    DESIGN FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE, INTERACT 2023, PT II   14536   294 - 298   2024   ISSN:0302-9743 ISBN:978-3-031-61697-6 eISSN:1611-3349

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    Digital economies are perceived as offering new potential for Indigenous people to exploit more significant shares in the digital sector while producing positive community outcomes. Respecting the views and rights of the participating cultural groups is of vital importance in any project that deals with living cultural heritage (LCH). At the same time, access to online cultural heritage has not sufficiently adapted or catered to the new habits of social media consumption, especially among the younger Indigenous generations, who wish to use their own devices to document artistic processes embedded in the cultural heritage of their ancestors, which is sensitive information they may not readily share. The objective of this paper is to explore how digital devices can foster a critical exchange by Indigenous communities. One important finding is that not all communities want such an exchange, but artists, for example, can use them without sharing content beyond personal use. This paper emphasises the challenge of making the intentions behind a story clear to users while guarding this intention and meaning from misuse.

    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-61698-3_31

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  • Design with More than Humans: Reimagining Social Biomimicry through Collaborations in Learning, Performance and Coauthorship

    Inamura Tokushu, Sarantou Melanie

    116 - 124   2024

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    The aim of this paper is to explore the roles and transformative potential of co-authorship with more than humans (MTHs) through biomimetics. Specifically, how can social biomimicry be reimagined through collaborations in learning, performative practices and co-authorship? Furthermore, how can such collaborations inform models of shared learning spaces for new knowledge transformation in society? To address these questions, this paper presents two case studies on the Nakagawa (Naka river) in Fukuoka (Japan), and the Kemi river in northern Finland. Methodological approaches include ethnographic action and analysis. Several entry points for coauthorship with MTH’s through biomimicry revealed themselves, represented though the cormorant, kingfisher, dragonfly and salmon. MTH co-authorship presents opportunities to foster a new conscious and engaging push to change habits and adopt virtuous behaviours and attitudes of collaborative learning that encompass plural design and transition. Biomimicry through explorative, meditative, and performative practices present embodied opportunities for such behavioral and attitudinal shifts required to address societal challenges.

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  • Nature’s Own Intellectual Creation Reviewed

    Heidi Härkönen, Rosa Maria Ballardini, Heidi Pietarinen, Melanie Sarantou

    NuArt Journal   4 ( 1 (issue 7) )   100 - 110   2023.6

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  • Nature’s Own Intellectual Creation Reviewed

    Heidi Härkönen, Rosa Maria Ballardini, Heidi Pietarinen, Melanie Sarantou

    4 ( 1 (issue 7) )   100 - 110   2023.6

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  • Storytelling as a Way to Design and Innovate Healthcare Services for Children Reviewed

    Alhonsuo, M., Siivola, J., Sarantou, M., Miettinen, S.

    Human-Centered Service Design for Healthcare Transformation: Development, Innovation, Change   265 - 284   2023.6

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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20168-4_15

  • SoftPowerArt Reviewed

    Maria Huhmarniemi, Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou

    Arts-Based Interventions and Social Change in Europe   105 - 111   2023.6

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    DOI: 10.4324/9781003376927-15

  • Is money a dirty word? Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Niina Karvinen

    Arts-Based Interventions and Social Change in Europe   173 - 182   2023.6

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  • Flags: A Shared Horizon Reviewed

    Heidi Pietarinen, Amna Qureshi, Melanie Sarantou

    Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse   217 - 227   2022.12

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    DOI: 10.4324/9781003285175-22

  • Materiality as a mediator of empathy through culture-based product design for tourism Reviewed

    Heidi Pietarinen, Eija Timonen, Melanie Sarantou

    Empathy and Business Transformation   212 - 227   2022.12

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  • Multiperspective take on pluriversal agenda in artistic research Reviewed

    Marija Griniuk, Daria Akimenko, Satu Miettinen, Heidi Pietarinen, Melanie Sarantou

    Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse   40 - 54   2022.12

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  • Introduction: Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse Reviewed

    Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, Melanie Sarantou

    Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse   1 - 14   2022.12

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  • Biotaidetta tarkasteleva laboratorio Reviewed

    Heidi Pietarinen, Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou

    Tahiti   12 ( 3 )   111 - 120   2022.11

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  • Collaborative art and storytelling as an empowering tool for social design Reviewed

    Daria Akimenko, Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Empathy and Business Transformation   60 - 75   2022.10

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  • Digital Storytelling to Share Service Experiences and Find Insights into Health Care Reviewed

    Mira Alhonsuo, Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Service Design Practices for Healthcare Innovation   529 - 547   2022.10

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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87273-1_26

  • Meaning-making and interpretation through personal mandalas in the context of visual literacy Reviewed

    Amna Qureshi, Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Journal of Visual Literacy   41 ( 3-4 )   247 - 260   2022.10

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    DOI: 10.1080/1051144X.2022.2132625

  • Performance and Fashion-Based Activities in Social Design Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Philippe Talavera

    The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts   17 ( 1 )   19 - 36   2022.9

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    DOI: 10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v17i01/19-36

  • 社会的課題の緩和における芸術の役割: 欧州7カ国の地域政策ロードマップ

    38 - 67   2022.9

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  • AMASS European Testbed Artistic Experiment Evaluations

    2022.6

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    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6371967

  • AMASS Policy White Paper Reviewed

    Zenodo OpenAire   1 - 39   2022.5

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    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6596502

  • The Role of the Arts in Mitigating Societal Challenges: Regional Policy Roadmaps for Seven European Countries

    University of Lapland   2022.5

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  • Introduction Reviewed

    Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos, Melanie Sarantou

    Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse   1 - 14   2022.1

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  • もっと忍耐と創造性を: オンラインステークホルダーワークショップにおけるチーム学習 Reviewed

    Sarantou, M, Gutiérrez Novoa, C, Remotti, S, Alhonsuo, M

    ( 3 )   1 - 28   2021.12

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  • Local stories

    Melanie Sarantou

    Arts-based social interventions   65 - 81   2021.12

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  • Context mapping for creative tourism Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Outi Kugapi, Maria Huhmarniemi

    Annals of Tourism Research   86   2021.12

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    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.103064

  • Generating Stakeholder Workshops for Policymaking in Digital Environments through Participatory Service Design Reviewed

    Malta Review of Educational Research   15 ( Supplement Issue )   119 - 136   2021.11

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  • Five Salmon and Two Fish (viisi lohta ja kaksi kalaa) Reviewed

    Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou

    Documents of Socially Engaged Art   37 - 47   2021.11

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  • Documenting Sauna Stories Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen, Heidi Pietarinen

    Documents of Socially Engaged Art   76 - 91   2021.11

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  • Love Talks and Neighbourhood

    Mirja Hiltunen, Pieta Koskenniemi, Melanie Sarantou

    Malta Review of Educational Research   15 ( Supplement Issue )   97 - 117   2021.11

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  • Meaning Innovations with Design Support Reviewed

    Design Management Journal   16 ( 1 )   79 - 92   2021.10

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    DOI: 10.1111/dmj.12070

  • Creative tourism as a strategic approach for decolonial thinking and doing in Namibian tourism Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Creative tourism   205 - 216   2021.10

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    DOI: 10.1079/9781789243536.0027

  • Love Talks

    Melanie Sarantou

    Arts-based social interventions   38 - 50   2021.9

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  • Introduction: Arts-based methods for decolonising participatory research Reviewed

    Seppala, T, Sarantou, M, Miettinen, S

    Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research   1 - 18   2021.8

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  • Intersectional approaches to ecological restoration, recreation of commons

    Heidi Pietarinen, Melanie Sarantou

    2021.6

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  • Documents of Socially Engaged Art

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    2021.6

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  • Assessing an online toolset and stakeholder workshop for policy-making

    Melanie Sarantou

    Arts-based social interventions   52 - 62   2021.6

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  • Arts-based social interventions

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    2021.6

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  • Intersectional approaches to ecological restoration, recreation of commons

    Heidi Pietarinen, Melanie Sarantou

    2021.6

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  • メモリーボックス: 回想の実践とメモリー・ワークのためのアート・ベース・メソッドとしての立体キルト。 Reviewed

    ( 15 )   84 - 94   2021.6

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  • Building a community through service design and responsiveness to emotions Reviewed

    Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research   123 - 145   2021.4

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  • Deliverable 2.1 Data set of case studies in the Arts 2008-2020

    Zs{'o}fia Somogyi-Rohonczy, {'A}gnes Veszelszky, Eszter Deli, Marie Fulkov{'a}, Magdalena Novotn{'a}, Silvia Remotti, {Guti{'e}rrez Novoa}, Carolina, Raphael Vella, Margerita Pul{'e}, Isabelle Gatt, Aidan Celeste, Angela Saldanha, Teresa E{c c}a, Raquel Balsa, Tang Tang, Paul Wilson, Maria Huhmarniemi, Mirja Hiltunen, Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    2021.3

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  • Forest play Reviewed

    Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou

    Dialogista vaikuttamista   ( 68 )   119 - 122   2021.3

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  • Participation of healthcare representatives in health-related design sprints Reviewed

    Mira E. Alhonsuo, Melanie A. Sarantou, Samantha J. Hookway, Satu A. Miettinen, Maarja Motus

    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design Creativity, ICDC 2020   44 - 51   2020.12

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    DOI: 10.35199/ICDC.2020.06

  • Design for society: Ageing communities as co-designers in processes of social innovation Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Shaohua Pan

    Journal of Design, Business and Society   6 ( 1 )   129 - 141   2020.11

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    DOI: 10.1386/dbs_00007_1

  • Sensemaking in the design space: In-betweenness and identity construction of design managers Reviewed

    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design Creativity, ICDC 2020   152 - 159   2020.11

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    DOI: 10.35199/ICDC.2020.19

  • ‘My Piece of Heaven’ Reviewed

    35 ( 1 )   100 - 119   2020.3

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    The articles discuses improvisatory processes through the recognition and actuation of affordances within specific environments and situations. The synergistic relationships between resourcefulness and improvisation, and people’s interactions within their given environments, will be addressed through two arts-based activities that were conducted with a student community in Arctic Murmansk, Russia, as part of the Margin to Margin project. The article will discuss and analyse the role that affordances play in intricate, familiar and unfamiliar environments, especially those that are associated with making, the arts and improvisation. The arts-based activities drew from varied art-based methods and narrative approaches to data collection and analysis, such as storytelling, textile arts practices and making, narrative analysis, self-reflection and diarising. The outcome of the article explores the dynamic role of improvisation to address challenges by recognising and actuation affordances within the environments in which art and design makers, but also researchers, work and function.

    DOI: 10.34130/2233-1277-2020-1-100-119

  • In her lap Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Sanna Sillgren, Laura Pokela

    Relate Nort   ( 5 )   84 - 107   2019.12

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  • In her lap: Embodied learning through making. International journal

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    Relate North: Collaborative Art, Design and Education.   2019.12

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  • 意味のあるポジティブな戦略的センスメイキングのモデル Reviewed International journal

    Pääkönen, T, Miettinen, S.A, Sarantou, M.A

    2019.11

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    DOI: 10.33114/adim.2019.03.217

  • Track 5.a Introduction: Transforming Complexities through Design in Collaborative Community-based Processes

    Melanie Sarantou

    Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management   2019.11

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    DOI: 10.33114/adim.2019.5a

  • Decolonising Namibian Arts and Design through Improvisation Reviewed International journal

    Melanie Sarantou, Caoimhe Beaule, Satu Miettinen

    Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management   2019.11

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    DOI: 10.33114/adim.2019.02.364

  • Ageing communities as co-designers of social innovation Reviewed

    Shaohua Pan, Melanie Sarantou

    China Journal of Social Work   12 ( 3 )   273 - 286   2019.9

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    DOI: 10.1080/17525098.2019.1700342

  • 周辺地域におけるケアのデザイン: 地域社会とのエンパワメント・プロセスとしてのアート・ベース・リサーチ Reviewed International journal

    2019.6

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  • Introduction

    Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou

    Managing Complexity and Creating Innovation through Design   1 - 12   2019.4

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    DOI: 10.4324/9780429022746

  • Design for Care Reviewed

    Shaohua Pan, Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    13 ( 2 )   25 - 40   2019.4

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    DOI: 10.18848/2325-1328/CGP/v13i02/25-40

  • Exploring Mapping Tools for Service Design through the Voitto Project International journal

    Melanie Sarantou

    The Lure of Lapland: A handbook of Arctic Art and Design   2018.12

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  • Exploring mapping tools for service design through the Voitto project

    Melanie Sarantou, Mari Suoheimo

    The Lure of Lapland   ( 59 )   52 - 65   2018.12

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  • Margin to Margin: Arts-Based Research for Digital Outreach to Marginalised Communities Reviewed International journal

    Melanie Augusta Sarantou, Daria Akimenko, Nuno Escudeiro

    The Journal of Community Informatics   14 ( 1 )   2018.11

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    DOI: 10.15353/joci.v14i1.3407

  • Margin to Margin

    Melanie Sarantou, Daria Akimenko, Nuno Escudeiro

    Journal of Community Informatics   14 ( 1 )   139 - 139   2018.11

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  • Fashion Design: The connective role of improvisation in new learning experiences Reviewed International journal

    Melanie Sarantou

    Universal Journal of Educational Research   6 ( 6 )   1358 - 1364   2018.6

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    DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2018.060627

  • Women's laps and intimate care and complex spaces Reviewed International journal

    Melanie Sarantou

    Feminism and museums   1   2017.12

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  • The connective role of improvisation in dealing with uncertainty during invention and design processes Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Conference proceedings of the Design Management Academy   4   1171 - 1186   2017.12

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    DOI: 10.21606/dma.2017.96

  • IDoc: A technology tool as a platform for exploring data Reviewed

    Daria Akimenko, Melanie Sarantou, Nuno Escudeiro, Satu Miettinen

    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series   571 - 575   2017.11

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    DOI: 10.1145/3152771.3156173

  • Narrating identities through art-making on the margins

    Daria Akimenko, Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Arctic yearbook   6   97 - 111   2017.11

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  • Arctic Identities: Knowledge Transfer between Communities through Art-making and Narrative Processes Reviewed

    Daria Akimenko, Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Arctic Yearbook 2017   6   97 - 111   2017.10

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  • Collaborative art and storytelling as an empowering tool for service design: South Australian case study Reviewed International journal

    Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou, Daria Akimenko

    For profit, for good: Developing organizations through service design   1457 - 0068   2016.12

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  • Collaborative art and storytelling as an empowering tool for service design Reviewed

    Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou, Daria Akimenko

    For profit, for good   ( 11 )   74 - 80   2016.12

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  • Namibian narratives: Postcolonial identities in craft and design Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou

    2014.12

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  • A dynamic identity-building process contributing to Namibian couture design Reviewed International journal

    Melanie Sarantou

    2008.12

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  • Opus Omavu Reviewed

    Melanie Sarantou

    Namibia   2004.9

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Books

  • Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse

    Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia, Loschiavo dos Santos, Melanie Sarantou

    Routledge  2023.2 

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  • Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse

    Satu Miettinen, Enni Mikkonen, Maria Cecilia, Loschiavo dos Santos, Melanie Sarantou( Role: Joint editorEditorial)

    Routledge  2023.2    ISBN:9781032245164

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  • Empathy and Business Transformation

    Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen( Role: Edit)

    Routledge  2023.1 

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  • Empathy and Business Transformation

    Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen( Role: EditFirst Editor)

    Routledge  2023.1    ISBN:9781032130767

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  • Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse

    Miettinen S., Mikkonen E., Loschiavo Dos Santos M.C., Sarantou M.

    Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations Towards the Pluriverse  2022.1    ISBN:9781000815900, 9781032245164

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    This edited volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and design that not only reframes but also repositions agendas and actions to address fragmented global systems. Contributors explore the pluriverse of art and design through epistemological and methodological considerations. What kinds of sustainable ways are there for knowledge transfer, supporting plural agendas, finding novel ways for unsettling conversations, unlearning and learning and challenging power structures with marginalised groups and contexts through art and design? The main themes of the book are art and design methods, epistemologies and practices that provide critical, interdisciplinary, pluriversal and decolonial considerations. The book challenges the domination of the white logic of art and design and shifts away from the Anglo-European one-world system towards the pluriverse. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, arts-based research, and design studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis. com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

    DOI: 10.4324/9781003285175

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  • Introduction

    Sarantou M., Miettinen S.

    Empathy and Business Transformation  2022.1    ISBN:9781000713671, 9781032130767

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    This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a practical four-step approach to the challenges presented concerning how organisations can turn from merely feeling empathy with or for people to actions of empathy and compassion that can be implemented with and by communities. It discusses how refugee youth’s well-being and integration into societies can be strengthened through creativity and arts-based approaches, here as a way to strengthen their sense of belonging and connection to new environments. The book discusses how love and hate letters were used to gauge customer satisfaction and build empathy through digital business. It explores the relationship between historic and local stories, place making and empathy.

    DOI: 10.4324/9781003227557-1

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  • Documents of Socially Engaged Arts

    Raphael Vella, Melanie Sarantou

    InSEA  2021.12 

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  • Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research

    Routledge  2021.6 

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  • Managing Complexity and Creating Innovation through Design

    Satu Miettinen, Melanie Sarantou

    Routledge  2019.5 

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MISC

  • Empathy and Business Transformation

    Melanie Sarantou, Satu Miettinen

    Empathy and Business Transformation   2022.1

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Professional Memberships

  • DESIS Network Social Innovation and Sustainability

    2023.9 - Present

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  • Social Design Network

    2023.7 - Present

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  • DESIS Network Social Innovation and Sustainability

  • Social Design Network

Committee Memberships

  • DESIS Network: Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability   DESIS-Q, Kyushu University  

    2023.9 - Present   

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  • Bioart Society Finland (SOLU)   Member  

    2023.9   

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  • Social Design Network   Member  

    2023.7 - Present   

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    Committee type:Academic society

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  • Kyushu University, Centre for Designed Futures   International Liaison  

    2023.4 - Present   

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    Committee type:Academic society

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Academic Activities

  • Screening of academic papers

    Role(s): Peer review

    2024

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    Type:Peer review 

    Number of peer-reviewed articles in foreign language journals:2

    Proceedings of International Conference Number of peer-reviewed papers:1

  • Communicating with Non-humans: A New Visual Language, Frontiers in Communication, Visual Communication International contribution

    2023.10 - 2024.12

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    Type:Academic society, research group, etc. 

  • Documents of Socially Engaged Arts. https://doi.org/10.24981/2021-DSEA International contribution

    2023.5

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  • Empathy and Business Transformation. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003227557 International contribution

    2023.5

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  • Artistic Cartography and Design Explorations to Pluriverse. https://doi.org/10.4324/978100328 International contribution

    2023.5

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  • Arts-Based Methods for Decolonising Participatory Research. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053408 International contribution

    2023.5

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  • Managing Complexity and Creating Innovation through Design. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429022746 International contribution

    2023.5

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  • Empathic Service Design, Book published by Bloomsbury Academic International contribution

    2023.4 - 2024.12

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    Type:Academic society, research group, etc. 

  • Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Digitalisation, Ethics, Legal Aspects, Art and Design, Palgrave Academic Publishers International contribution

    2023.4 - 2024.10

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  • Screening of academic papers

    Role(s): Peer review

    2023

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    Number of peer-reviewed articles in foreign language journals:2

    Proceedings of International Conference Number of peer-reviewed papers:4

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Research Projects

  • The seminar series, Service Design for Societal Change, was conducted over 9 weeks, focusing on Service Design for Societal Change. The series was attended by 4 Faculty Members from the Graduate School of Design and 6 international professors and doctors who are experts in Service Design. In addition, 8 graduate students from the Faculty of Design and 6 graduate students from other faculties at Kyushu University regularly attended the lectures, while 16 graduate students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design attended two of the lectures in the seminar series.

    2023

    The International Collaborative Education Support Program FY2023

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  • PromoTing Sustainable PRactices for Digitalizing IndigenoUS CulTural Heritage - Global North and South Juxtaposed (TRUST) International coauthorship

    2022.5 - 2023.7

    University of Lapland, Strategic Fund 

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    Authorship:Coinvestigator(s) 

  • TRUST (PromoTing Sustainable PRactices for Digitalizing IndigenoUS CulTural Heritage - Global North and South Juxtaposed)

    2022 - 2024

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    Authorship:Coinvestigator(s)  Grant type:Scientific research funding

  • Dialogue and Encounters in the Arctic

    2020 - 2021

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    Authorship:Collaborating Investigator(s) (not designated on Grant-in-Aid)  Grant type:Scientific research funding

  • SmartCulTour (Smart Cultural Tourism as a Driver of Sustainable Development of European Regions)

    Grant number:870708  2019 - 2023

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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  • Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture

    Grant number:870621  2019 - 2022

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    Authorship:Coinvestigator(s)  Grant type:Scientific research funding

  • Women Living on the Edges of the World: Margin to Margin

    2016 - 2017

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    Authorship:Coinvestigator(s)  Grant type:Scientific research funding

  • Namibian Narratives: Identities in Craft and Design

    2010

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    Authorship:Principal investigator  Grant type:Scientific research funding

  • Namibian Narratives: Identities in Craft and Design

    2009 - 2014

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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Educational Activities

  • Transformation Design
    Academic Publishing and Dissemination
    Societal Design
    Strategic Design Special Project

Class subject

  • Academic Publishing and Dissemination

    2024.10 - 2025.3   Second semester

  • 芸術工学特別研究Ⅱ(ストラテジックデザインコース)

    2024.10 - 2025.3   Second semester

  • トランスフォーメーション・デザイン (Transformation Design)

    2024.4 - 2024.9   First semester

  • Strategic Design, Special Project

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • SD特別プロジェクトⅣ(アントレプレナー)

    2024.12 - 2025.2   Winter quarter

  • 芸術工学特別研究Ⅳ(ストラテジックデザインコース)

    2024.10 - 2025.3   Second semester

  • 芸術工学演習(ストラテジックデザインコース)

    2024.10 - 2025.3   Second semester

  • 芸術工学特別研究Ⅱ(ストラテジックデザインコース)

    2024.10 - 2025.3   Second semester

  • Academic Publishing and Dissemination Skills

    2024.10 - 2025.3   Second semester

  • SD特別プロジェクトⅢ(ソーシャルデザイン)

    2024.10 - 2024.12   Fall quarter

  • SD特別プロジェクトⅡ(ストラテジックデザイン)

    2024.6 - 2024.8   Summer quarter

  • グローバルPBLプログラム

    2024.4 - 2025.3   Full year

  • 芸術工学特別研究Ⅲ(ストラテジックデザインコース)

    2024.4 - 2024.9   First semester

  • 芸術工学特別研究Ⅰ(ストラテジックデザインコース)

    2024.4 - 2024.9   First semester

  • トランスフォーメーション・デザイン

    2024.4 - 2024.6   Spring quarter

  • SD特別プロジェクトⅠ

    2024.4 - 2024.6   Spring quarter

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Visiting, concurrent, or part-time lecturers at other universities, institutions, etc.

  • 2024  Adjunct Professor, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design  Classification:Faculty conurrently holding another post  Domestic/International Classification:Overseas 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration:2024, ongoing

  • 2023  Adjunct Professor, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design  Classification:Faculty conurrently holding another post  Domestic/International Classification:Overseas 

    Semester, Day Time or Duration:2023, ongoing

Outline of Social Contribution and International Cooperation activities

  • Promote international exchange lectures with a focus on service design with at least 4 international organisations and / or universities, such as Aalto University, University of Lapland, Loughborough University. Universidades Desarrollo, University of Architecture and Design Norway, Volkswagen.

    Promote and plan the promotion of international lectures with a focus on social design with at least two partner universities, for example with Latvian Art Academy and Politechnico di Milano.

    Promote and plan collaboration with the DESIS network and implement a DESIS Cafe at Kyushu University.

    Promote collaboration with the Social Design Network (SDN) and apply for membership.

Social Activities

  • Design Strategies For Entrepreneurship

    Role(s): Lecturer, Informant

    Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)  JICA Kyushu Center Kyushu Center | Kyushu Center |   2024.9

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    Type:Seminar, workshop

    2023 - ongoing. ‘Enhancement of Entrepreneurship and Startup Ecosystem’, a biannual course to international business start-up leaders in Design Strategies, focusing on art and design thinking. The course is offered by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Entrepreneurs participate from developing countries from all over the world, including the Global South (Africa and South America), South-East Asia and the Middle East.

  • Design Strategies For Entrepreneurship

    Role(s): Lecturer, Informant

    Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)  JICA Kyushu Center Kyushu Center   Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association, Kitakyushu  2023.9

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    Type:Seminar, workshop

    2023 - ongoing. ‘Enhancement of Entrepreneurship and Startup Ecosystem’, a biannual course to international business start-up leaders in Design Strategies, focusing on art and design thinking. The course is offered by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Entrepreneurs participate from developing countries from all over the world, including the Global South (Africa and South America), South-East Asia and the Middle East.

  • Design Strategies For Entrepreneurship

    Role(s): Lecturer, Informant

    Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)  JICA Kyushu Center Kyushu Center | Kyushu Center |   Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association, Kitakyushu  2023.5

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    Audience: Scientific, Company, Civic organization, Governmental agency

    Type:Seminar, workshop

    Since 2023, I have offered a biannual course to international business start-up leaders in Design Strategies, focusing on art and design thinking. The course is offered by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), titled ‘Enhancement of Entrepreneurship and Startup Ecosystem’. Participants attend from Developing countries from all over the world, including the Global South (Africa and South America), South-East Asia and the Middle East.

Acceptance of Foreign Researchers, etc.

  • University of Lapland

    Acceptance period: 2025.1   (Period):2weeks to less than 1 month

    Nationality:Finland

    Business entity:Foreign governments, foreign research institutes, international organizations

  • Estonian Academy of the Arts

    Acceptance period: 2024.2   (Period):Less than 2 weeks

    Nationality:Estonia

    Business entity:Foreign governments, foreign research institutes, international organizations

  • Estonian Academy of the Arts

    Acceptance period: 2024.2   (Period):Less than 2 weeks

    Nationality:Estonia

    Business entity:Foreign governments, foreign research institutes, international organizations

  • University of Lapland

    Acceptance period: 2024.7   (Period):2weeks to less than 1 month

    Nationality:Finland

    Business entity:Foreign governments, foreign research institutes, international organizations

  • HUMAK University of Applied Sciences

    Acceptance period: 2024.10 - 2024.11   (Period):2weeks to less than 1 month

    Nationality:Finland

    Business entity:Foreign governments, foreign research institutes, international organizations

Travel Abroad

  • 2024.9

    Staying countory name 1:Denmark   Staying institution name 1:Aalborg University