With my defense ended a journey that had started with building an LED top-hat years before and the question what would happen if others could remotely control my appearance. In Finland, doctoral graduates receive a top hat as a symbol of their degree, which closes this cycle also metaphorically. My doctoral research investigated how technology might alter our everyday attire and how this will change the way we interact with each other. Imagine clothing and accessories that not only give comfort and reflect your style but respond to your emotions, social contacts, and online media.

Global challenges call for rapid methods that support long-term thinking. We developed Future Ripples, a workshop for innovation teams to map out the consequences of their work. Our method structures the foresight process of scanning, framing and futuring through the metaphor of scanning a shore, choosing a pebble and creating ripples. Beyond its practical use, our method develops anticipatory capacities through structured futuring.

Will we in the future wear Memes? Nordic students already do. Despite two decades of HCI research on social wearables, we are yet to see widespread adoption. In our generative design research, we investigate the use of social wearables in the students’ practice of wearing and adorning boiler suits. We found a variety of social interactions, including spamming and digital memes, as a concept for designers.

Interactive Storefront is a media installation to engage with a shop window during closing hours. Together with Thomas Grah I developed an intuitive and engaging multiuser experience based on projection mapping and the Kinect controller. The project was developed in 2011 as our Bachelor project during a internship at adidas.