552. INFRASTRUCTURES 1. Transitions pathways (Finland). A talk with Tatu Marttila

Diseño y Diáspora

Tatu Marttila is a Finnish designer, lecturer and researcher in Aalto university, who works in one ICOS project in relation to cities. We talk in this interview about his work in the project, and his previous work on sustainability.

This is a series of 5 interviews to people based or coming from: Ireland, Finland, Denmark, France and the United States. The main focus is in understanding the possible role of design in infrastructures. I started this enquiry interviewing designers involved in the development of services for other projects or based in other infrastructures. I want to ask them: what can we design in relation to the work of infrastructures?
I work for ICOS, Integrated Carbon Observation Systems. This is a Research Infrastructure focusing on carbon. It provides standardised and open data from close to 180 measurement stations across 16 European countries. The stations observe greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and also carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, the land surface and the oceans. My work at the moment concentrates on one EU project: IRISCC. Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks. In this project we will develop services using a co-design framework. Therefore, my main question is how design could contribute to the development of services?

This interview is part of the lists: Diseño en transición, Finlandia y diseño, Infrastructures, Diseño sostenible y D & D in English. In this last list I compiled the interviews done for this podcast in English. We have at the moment only 20 interviews published in English.