Detailed programme

Työryhmäsessiot 1: Torstai 25.10. klo 13

1. Cross-Border Dialogues & Finland: Human Mobilities, Social Interactions & Transnationalism

Aud XI October 25th 1pm

Session chairs: Olle Järv; Kerli Müürisepp; Tuuli Toivonen

In the EU “borderless world”, cross-border interactions and integration are regarded as key drivers towards socially and economically more cohesive territorial development and well-functioning societies. Increasing human mobilities and socio-spatial interactions transcending state borders have a role in forming many societal phenomena such as new functional cross-border regions, transnational people and transnationalism, at large. These developments have further implications on societies in relation to integration processes, identity formation, social (in)equalities, governmentality, planning and security, among many others.

Cross-border interactions between Finland and its neighbouring countries follow the overall trend. For instance, while tens of thousands of people have their daily lives already connected to both Finland and Estonia, stakeholders advance the Helsinki-Tallinn twin-city concept by planning and executing new strategic infrastructure projects to better connect the countries. As cross-border mobility flows grow, a more comprehensive understanding about complex socio-spatial practices beyond state borders and its consecutive impacts on societies is needed. In addition to conventional approaches, the application of novel (big) data sources allows to develop new theoretical concepts and methodologies to provide valuable insights for given research.

The session aims to present and discuss theoretical, methodological and empirical research on cross-border mobilities and interactions, transnationalism, and implications on societies it involves. A concentrated discussion is facilitated at the end of the session.

The topics we welcome include, but are not limited to:

• cross-border human mobility (daily, leisure, migration);
• social and spatial interactions of people from the neighbouring countries in Finland;
• transnational people and transnationalism;
• inequality and segregation;
• social engagement and integration;
• applications of novel (big) data sources and new methodologies;
• functional cross-border regions/transnational spaces;
• Estonians and Russians in Finland.

• Karin Kangur (University of Tartu): Factors shaping neighbourhoods integration trajectories for ethnic minority groups
• Siiri Silm (Univeristy of Tartu), Margus Tiru (Positium LBS): Transnational mobility between Estonia and Finland based on mobile phone roaming
• Evi-Carita Riikonen (University of Eastern Finland): Everyday translocal practices of Finnish migrants in the UK
• Olle Järv (University of Helsinki), Kerli Müürisepp (University of Helsinki): Implementation of Big Data in Cross-Border Studies: Prospects and Challenges

7. Changing concepts and emerging spaces of spatial planning: how to define planning in a complex, multi-actor world?

Aud XVI October 25th 1pm

Session chairs: Salla Jokela (University of Helsinki) and Pia Bäcklund (University of Helsinki)

Research group Spatial policy, politics and planning

The aim of this session is to discuss how we should define planning in a complex, multi-actor world. Is planning mainly land-use planning that influences the distribution of activities in space? Or is planning nowadays something general to cover all acts that are shaping geographical space?

Our interest in these questions stems from the understanding that cities and regions are experimenting and adopting new policies in order to stimulate development and adapt to changes in their operational environment. Along with these processes, the everyday meaning of planning as land-use planning and regulation is being complemented by new definitions of planning, which include a range of strategic, processual, and context-specific ways of managing spatial change. Contractual city-regional land use planning and pervasive, action-oriented city branding are examples of the emergence of new spaces of planning and governance outside or in-between the statutory spaces of planning. These new spaces play an important role in identifying and addressing strategic issues and steering the development of cities and city regions to a desirable direction. In practice this also means that new actors have emerged, for example consultants and active citizens who are ready to challenge institutional ways of looking at the future of the cities.

We invite researchers, including doctoral candidates, to discuss and present papers on the concept and role of planning in contemporary society. Possible themes include changing and emerging concepts and forums of planning, new forms of agency in planning, and specific questions related to issues such as participation and democracy in the emerging spaces of planning and governance.

• Kaj Zimmerbauer (Oulun yliopisto), Anssi Paasi (Oulun yliopisto) Hard work with soft spaces: problematizing the transforming planning spaces
• Olli Ruokolainen (Tampereen yliopisto, Johtamiskorkeakoulu); Bäcklund, Pia (Helsingin yliopisto); Kallio, Kirsi Pauliina (Tampereen yliopisto, Johtamiskorkeakoulu); Häkli, Jouni (Tampereen yliopisto, Johtamiskorkeakoulu): Shrinking citizenship? Depoliticization of knowledge in strategic city-regional spatial planning
• Derek Ruez (University of Tampere): Governing, planning, and contesting the compassionate city
• Jani Tartia (Tampere University of Technology): Approaching the lived urban space: rhythmanalysis in urban research and planning
• Niina Nieminen (Turun yliopisto, Sosiaalitieteiden laitos): Elements of desirability: exploring meaningful dwelling features from residents’ perspective

8. Social Media Geographies

Aud IV October 25th 1pm

Session chairs: Vuokko Heikinheimo, Christoph Fink & Tuuli Toivonen (Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki)

Social media data and its analysis have found their way into mainstream geographic research. The availability of such data has sparked research on people’s discourses (Garimella et al. 2018), social networks (Huberman et al. 2008), urban and global mobility (Hawelka et al. 2014; Shelton et al. 2015), on their happiness (Mitchell et al. 2013), and outdoor activities (Hausmann et al. 2017a&b; Heikinheimo 2018). Data from social media is increasingly used to inform urban and regional planning (Campagna 2016; Nummi 2018; Rykov et al. 2016), biodiversity conservation (Di Minin et al. 2015, forthcoming), and linguistics (Hiippala et al. forthcoming), amongst many other fields.

Social media data is data generated from people’s interactions on social media platforms. It consists of text, images, or similar, and a rich set of metadata covering, for instance but not limited to, time and date, location, user identity and interaction. Research has evolved from quantitative analysis of aggregated metadata, such as location information, to a more holistic research that seamlessly contains location, content analyses and information about the users and their networks. Current geographical research using social media data employs a diverse mix of both qualitative and quantitative methods, ranging from discourse analysis to machine learning.

This session intends to bring together people using social media data analytics in their geographical research and to share their knowledge, experiences, enthusiasm and criticism with one another.

References

Campagna, M. (2016) Social Media Geographic Information: Why social is special when it goes spatial? In Capineri, C., Haklay, M., Huang, H., Antoniou, V., Kettunen, J., Ostermann, F., and Purves, R. (Eds.), European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information. Ubiquity Press.

Di Minin, E., Tenkanen, H., and Toivonen, T. (2015) Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science. Frontiers in Environmental Science 3.

Di Minin, E., Fink, C., Hiippala, T., and Tenkanen, H. (forthcoming) A framework for investigating illegal wildlife trade on social media using machine learning. Conservation Biology 17(674).

Garimella, K., De Francisci Morales, G., Gionis, A., and Mathioudakis, M. (2018) Political Discourse on Social Media: Echo Chambers, Gatekeepers, and the Price of Bipartisanship. ACM Press doi:10.1145/3178876.3186139.

Hausmann, A, Toivonen, TK, Slotow, R, Tenkanen, HTO, Moilanen, AJ, Heikinheimo, VV & Di Minin, E (2017), 'Social Media Data Can Be Used to Understand Tourists’ Preferences for Nature-Based Experiences in Protected Areas' Conservation Letters, Vuosikerta. 11, Nro 1. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12343

Hausmann, A, Toivonen, T, Heikinheimo, V, Tenkanen, H, Slotow, R & Di Minin, E (2017), 'Social media reveal that charismatic species are not the main attractor of ecotourists to sub-Saharan protected areas' Scientific Reports, Vuosikerta. 7, 763. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00858-6

Hawelka, B., Sitko, I., Beinat, E., Sobolevsky, S., Kazakopoulos, P., and Ratti, C. (2014) Geo-located Twitter as proxy for global mobility patterns. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 41(3): 260–271.

Heikinheimo, V. (2018) Understanding human activities in green areas with social media data. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Presented at the AGILE PhD School Leeds, United Kingdom.

Hiippala, T., Hausmann, A., Tenkanen, H., and Toivonen, T. (in press) Exploring the linguistic landscape of geotagged social media content in urban environments. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities : 29.

Huberman, B. A., Romero, D. M., and Wu, F. (2009) Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope. First Monday 14(1).

Mitchell, L., Frank, M. R., Harris, K. D., Dodds, P. S., and Danforth, C. M. (2013) The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter Sentiment and Expression, Demographics, and Objective Characteristics of Place. PLoS ONE 8(5).

Nummi, P. (2018) Crowdsourcing Local Knowledge with PPGIS and Social Media for Urban Planning to Reveal Intangible Cultural Heritage. Urban Planning, 3, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v3i1.1266

Rykov, Y., Stanislavovich Nagornyy, O., Koltsova, O., Manovich, L., Cerrone, D. & Crockett, D. (2016) Semantic and geospatial mapping of instagram images in Saint-Petersburg. Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language AINL FRUCT 2016 Conference.

Shelton, T. , Poorthuis, A. & Zook M. (2015). Social Media and the City: Rethinking Urban Socio-Spatial Inequality Using User-Generated Geographic Information. Landscape and Urban Planning. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2571757 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2571757

Tenkanen, H., Di Minin, E., Heikinheimo, V., Hausmann, A., Herbst, M., Kajala, L., and Toivonen, T. (2017) Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areas. Scientific Reports 7(1).

• Maria Merisalo (University of Turku), Jussi Jauhiainen (University of Turku): The role of Internet and Social media facilitating the Asylum Migrants’ Move Decisions and Journey Towards Europe. A comparative study of Asylum Migrants’ Inclusion to Digital Dimension of Space.
• Vuokko Heikinheimo (Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki): Digital Footprints in Finnish National Parks
• Christoph Fink (University of Helsinki), Enrico Di Minin (University of Helsinki): The global illegal trade in wildlife and social media
• Tuomas Väisänen (Helsingin yliopisto): Helsingin digitaalinen kaupunkitila - Case: Instagram
• Damiano Cerrone (Tampere University of Technology): Urban metaMorphology

12. Aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity in a changing environment

Aud XIV October 25th 1pm

Session chair: Janne Soininen (University of Helsinki)

Session aims to present the theories, new findings and approaches related to spatial biodiversity research in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Special aim is to link observational approaches to latest theory in biodiversity research.

• Sonja Kivinen (Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland) Advanced Earth observation techniques in forest biodiversity and carbon sequestration mapping: boreal forests in the Evo region as an example
• Leena Virta (University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography): Diversity of benthic diatoms affects ecosystem productivity in the Baltic Sea
• Maija Toivanen (University of Oulu): Geodiversity as a surrogate of freshwater biodiversity
• Jouni Salmela (University of Turku, Department of Geography and Geology): Sediment transport in estuary – an intensive measuring and modelling approach to understand the effect of environmental conditions on sediment dispersion in coastal environment
• Virpi Pajunen (University of Helsinki/Department of Geosciences and Geography): The main drivers of the diversity and distribution of aquatic micro-organisms
• Marja Lindholm (University of Oulu, Geography Research Unit); Janne Alahuhta (University of Oulu, Geography Research Unit); Jani Heino (Finnish Environment Institute, Biodiversity Centre) Heikki Toivonen (Finnish Environment Institute, Biodiversity Centre): Temporal patterns in aquatic macrophyte beta diversity in a boreal lake district

15. Tulevaisuuden maantieteet! Pecha Kucha -työpaja opiskelijoille

Aud XIII Torstai 25.10. klo 13

Puheenjohtaja: Venla Bernelius (Helsingin yliopisto)

Se, mihin opiskelijat tarttuvat nyt, suuntaa maantiedettä kohti tulevia vuosikymmeniä. Tänä vuonna Maantieteen päivillä järjestetään myös opiskelijoiden oma työryhmäsessio, johon voit tulla esittelemään kandi- tai gradututkielmaasi valintasi mukaan Pecha Kucha tai hissipuheformaatilla! (Ks. https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/how-to-make-great-presentations-with-pecha-kucha) Ideana on esitellä lyhyesti ja ytimekkäästi oman tutkielman aihe kuvien tai kaavioiden siivittämänä ja tarjota katsaus siihen, millaiset aiheet opiskelijoita eri yliopistoissa innostavat. Rohkaisemme käyttämään tilaisuuden hyväksi ja kokeilemaan japanilaista Pecha Kucha -esitystekniikkaa, jossa esitys rakentuu 20 dian powerpointin ympärille niin, että diat asetetaan vaihtumaan automaattisesti 20 sekunnin välein. Halutessasi voit kuitenkin pitää myös perinteisemmän lyhyen esittelyn tutkielmastasi, jolloin sinulla on esityksellesi aikaa 7 minuuttia. Esityksen jälkeen varataan aikaa muutamille kysymyksille. Sessio tarjoaa loistavan tilaisuuden saada arvokasta esiintymiskokemusta rennossa ja vastaanottavaisessa ilmapiirissä!

Sessiossa pääsevät ääneen perustutkinto-opiskelijat, kaikki ovat tervetulleita seuraamaan.

• Nina Miettinen (Helsingin yliopisto, pro gradu -tutkielma): Kansainvälisyyskokemuksen jälkeen - Nairobin alueen aktiivisten nuorten rooli muuttuvassa maailmassa
• Mikael Asikainen (Turun yliopisto, pro gradu -tutkielma): Oikopolut - miten kävely-ympäristön suunnittelu vastaa sen käyttöä?
• Karoliina Bergström (Helsingin yliopisto, pro gradu -tutkielma): Lasten eriytyvät kasvuympäristöt? Päiväkotien toimintaympäristöt segregoituvassa kaupungissa

14. Kuhinaa rikkaruohonjuuritasolla: radikaalimaantieteet Suomessa (osa 1)

Aud II Torstai 25.10. osa 1 klo 13 & osa 2 klo 15

Puheenjohtajat: Tuomo Alhojärvi (Oulun yliopisto) ja Heikki Sirviö (Oulun yliopisto)

Erilaiset radikaaleiksi kutsutut ajatteluperinteet ja käytännöt ovat vaikuttaneet voimakkaasti kansainväliseen ihmismaantieteelliseen keskusteluun. Viime vuosikymmenien tutkimusta ja toimintaa ovat viitoittaneet esimerkiksi sosialistiset, marxilaiset, feministiset, anarkistiset, queerit, antirasistiset ja post- ja dekoloniaaliset tutkimustraditiot. Tuloksena on ollut tulikivenkatkuista kritiikkiä ja debattia mutta myös eläviä avauksia ja tekoja tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallisen tehtävän puolesta. Elinkelvottomuutta ja epävarmuutta tuottavan fossiilikapitalismin keskellä tällaiselle tutkimukselle on tarvetta enemmän kuin koskaan.

Suomen maantieteisiin radikaalius on välittynyt kenties hyvinvointivaltion vaimentamana. Yhteiskunnallista osallistumista on kuitenkin meilläkin harjoitettu vuosikymmenien aikana, ja epäkohtia erittelevää kriittistä tutkimusta tehdään monella saralla. Mutta miten on radikaalin – siis osallistuvan, kamppailevan, nyrjäyttävän ja vinosti kasvavan – tutkimuksen laita?

Tähän työpajaan kutsumme mukaan esityksiä, jotka käsittelevät suomalaisen maantieteen radikaaliutta eilen, tänään ja huomenna. Jos ja kun tulevaisuus näyttää epävarmalta, millaista radikaaliutta tarvitaan? Millaisista maantieteistä voidaan etsiä aineksia oikeudenmukaisempaan, elämiskelpoiseen ja haluttavaan tulevaisuuteen? Entä millaisia kotoperäisiä ajatus- ja elämistradioita on tarpeen kaivaa naftaliinista ja keksiä uudelleen? Miten luoda kontekstiherkkiä kansainvälisiä radikaalimaantieteiden yhteyksiä vastapainoksi tasapäistävälle ja tutkimusagendoja typistävälle ”kansainväliselle” valtavirtamaantieteelle? Ja jos kun tulevaisuus itsessään on epävarma ja sijoiltaan tempaava, niin millaiset maantieteet tukisivat sinnikästä vastarintaa ja paikoillaan pysymistä?

Toivotamme työpajaan tervetulleiksi kaikenkarvaiset menetelmälliset, teoreettiset, taiteelliset ja politisoivat interventiot osallistuvampien maantieteiden puolesta. Erityisesti haluamme rohkaista myös opiskelijoita mukaan linjaamaan ja haastamaan tulevia maantieteitä.

• Heikki Sirviö (Oulun yliopisto): Nurjamieliset merkitykset ja radikaali luopuminen
• Laura Pouru (Turun yliopisto, Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskus) Hazel Salminen (Turun yliopisto, Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskus) Noora Vähäkari (Turun yliopisto, Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskus): Tulevaisuus ulottuvuutena maantieteen tekemisessä
• Lehtinen, Ari (Itä-Suomen yliopisto, historia- ja maantieteiden laitos): Yhteiskuntamaantiede Joensuussa: degrowth- ja low carbon -hankkeet muutostyönä
• Mikko Karhu (Vaasan yliopisto, aluetiede): Utopia ja radikaali tilannesidonnaisina valtapelin välineinä
• Risto Kalliola (Turun yliopisto): Tuottaako radikaalimaantiede elitismiä?
• Ville Kellokumpu (Oulun yliopisto): Radikalismi ja uusi maantiede: Taloustieteestä kohti talousekologiaa

Työryhmäsessiot 2: Torstai 25.10 klo 15 (sessio 16 alkaa jo klo 14:45)

14. Kuhinaa rikkaruohonjuuritasolla: radikaalimaantieteet Suomessa (osa 2)

Aud II Torstai 25.10. osa 1 klo 13 & osa 2 klo 15

Puheenjohtajat: Tuomo Alhojärvi (Oulun yliopisto) ja Heikki Sirviö (Oulun yliopisto)

(Sessio jatkuu tauon jälkeen)

3. Bioeconomy in Finland and beyond: Unfolding development trajectories between a “new Nokia” and “bio-massacre”

Aud XVI October 25th 3pm

Session chair: Moritz Albrecht /University of Eastern Finland

Needs for a sustainable transition of production and consumption systems have been recognized and moved to the center stage in political and academic debates. In Finland, the (circular) bioeconomy takes a prominent role within the political agenda to promote a sustainable biosociety, and the country currently experiences a “green-rush” of large scale (bio-)industrial developments. Policy actors are actively promoting a bio-based rejuvenation of the Finnish economy, and particularly emphasizing possibilities for rural regions as a ‘resource’ for most sustainability-oriented policies within food, transport or energy sectors. Nevertheless, here is a gap between the technical potentials, political or industrial rhetoric and the actual socio-spatial processes of materialization of such political strategies.

The bioeconomy in Finland and its calculative potentials are hailed as the ‘new Nokia’, and at the same time, they are criticized as a renewed road to forest destruction. Much of the academic focus remains caught up with techno-economic potential analyses and the portrayal of policy visions to predict biofutures. These approaches tend to marginalize the array of dilemmas, uncertainties and vested interests rooted in the translocal spaces of policies’ design and implementation. Hence, in order to understand the materialization, effects and problematisations of potential biofutures there is an urge for a geographical perspectives on the socio-spatial processes that shape pathways, rationalities and places of implementation themselves. This allows an unfolding and evaluation of heterogeneous bioeconomy trajectories and their power-laden relations that shape potential biofutures in Finland and beyond.

The session aims to gather papers that address and critically scrutinize the socio-spatial processes related to bioeconomy-framed developments in Finland or elsewhere. Presentations can focus but are not restricted to, for example, industrial developments and their role for regional development, rhetoric and practices related to the sustainability of resource use, conflicting interests of different sectors of bioeconomy, and bioeconomy governance in a wider sense that contributes to an understanding of its spaces. Despite strong wood focus of Finnish bioeconomy/industry, the session hopes to attract also contributions of non-wood bioeconomy fields such as tourism, food or health related aspects.

• Bjørnar Sæther (University of Oslo): The (sorry) state of the bioeconomy in Norway
• Moritz Albrecht (Itä-Suomen Yliopisto): (Re-)producing BioAssemblages: The Äänekoski Bioproduct mill development
• Olli Lehtonen (University of Eastern Finland), Lasse Okkonen (Karelia University of Applied Sciences): Long-term socioeconomic impacts of bioenergy production: The case of Eno Energy
• Niko Humalisto (Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Historia- ja maantieteiden laitos): Material politics of turning manure into a resource in biogas production: the case study of Biovakka in Finland

4. Perspectives on territory: the state, the people, and democracy - Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization (RELATE) Session.

Aud XIV October 25th 3pm

Session chairs: Chris Lizotte (University of Helsinki), Juho Luukkonen (University of Helsinki)

“Territory” is a core geographic concept, but it has only relatively recently begun to attract sustained interest from geographers. Often used in popular and academic discourse alike as a synonym for “place” or “region” (Paasi 2012), we are now arriving at a more sophisticated understanding of territory as a specific, contingent kind of space that has been made knowable and governable by a central authority (Elden 2013), and of territoriality as the gamut of human activities that classify space, communicate these classifications through boundary, and enforce these divisions (Sack 1986).

Beyond territory and territoriality as spatial concepts, geographers have also investigated how they are instantiated by different actors, particularly the state. Indeed, the spatial transformation of the state under conditions of advanced capitalism has engendered significant changes in the organization and management of territory (Moisio and Paasi 2013). Additionally, state spatial transformation has led to a situation in which territorial sovereignty is often conflated with political sovereignty, when in fact transnational and extraterritorial forms of governance have led to complex topologies of territory and power (Sassen 2013). This conflation has provided openings for groups to highlight the spatial mismatch of power and territory, or exploit it for political gain; today we are seeing a particular proliferation of the second of these as primarily right-wing populist movements contest the effects of globalization with calls for simplistic, territorialist spatial governance.

In this session, then, we invite papers that explore territory both conceptually and empirically, as it is manifested by a variety of political actors. Topics could include, but are not limited to:

• Nationalist discourses of territorial attachment
• Territorial practices of the state
• Uses of territorial metaphor in literature, film, or other media
• Populist appeals to territory in response to globalization and elite regimes
• The state’s changing approaches to territory
• The presence of more-than-human and non-human entities in territorial governance
  
   
• Satu Kivelä (University of Oulu, Geography Research Unit): Geobiopolitics of health care: bringing territory and population together
• Simo Rautiainen ( University of Eastern Finland, Karelian Institute ): Finnish island policy: lobbying or regional development?
• Tetiana Nagirniak ( University of Eastern Finland ): Citizens` participation in local decision-making: comparing Ukraine and Estonia
• Sami Moisio (Helsingin yliopisto): Geopolitics of the knowledge-based economy
• Christopher Lizotte (University of Helsinki) Juho Luukkonen (University of Helsinki): Towards a Dialectical Understanding of Territory and Political Practice

9. Analysing spatial patterns of accessibility and mobility

Aud IV October 25th 3pm

Session chairs: Henrikki Tenkanen, Elias Willberg and Tuuli Toivonen (Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki)

Accessibility - classically defined as “the potential of opportunities for interaction”, is a conceptual and analytical tool that has been used to understand the intertwine of land use and transport. Increasingly it is used to understand even further the functionality, sustainability and equity of urban regions, or the locations of likely centers of interaction. Discourse on spatial accessibility has been inspiring scholars for decades, but the ways to measure it in a meaningful way remain a grand challenge for research. In practice, accessibility is mostly analyzed from a placed-based perspective by focusing on urban form/structure (transport network, land use), a single mode of transport, a single time period and mostly for “average individuals” or single population groups.

Recently, however, the field has been advancing and also Finnish geographers have contributed to this advancement by carrying out novel multimodal and multitemporal analyses, developing methods for modelling accessibility and participating in the forming of theories on accessibility and mobility.

This session welcomes presentations from researchers working on spatial modelling of accessibility and mobility. The presentations may be methodological, conceptual or case studies on accessibility analyses. Also examples on using accessibility as a tool in practical decision-making are welcomed!

• Jeison Orlando Londoño Espinosa (University of Münster/University of Helsinki): Comparative spatial data analysis method of urban accessibility realities
• Elias Willberg (University of Helsinki): Bike-sharing as part of urban mobility in Helsinki - A user perspective
• Claudia Bergroth (Digital Geography Lab, University of Helsinki): Dynamic Accessibility Modelling in the Finnish Capital Region integrating mobile phone data
• Venla Bernelius (Helsingin yliopisto), Karoliina Bergström (Helsingin yliopisto): Yksi kaupunki, 300 kylää - päiväkotien erilaistuvat toimintaympäristöt Helsingissä
• Daniel Lopatnikov Rojo (Public University of Navarra/University of Helsinki): The social appropriation of a more sustainable mobility paradigm from an international comparative approach

16. Maaseutu ja kaupunki: sekoituksia, riippuvuuksia ja mielikuvia.

Aud XIII Torstai 25.10. klo 14:45

Puheenjohtaja: Jarmo Kortelainen (Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Historia- ja maantieteiden laitos)

Maaseutu ja kaupunki ovat maantieteellistä mielikuvitustamme sääteleviä peruskategorioita, jotka synnyttävät enemmän tai vähemmän selkeitä mielikuvia maisemasta, elämäntavasta ja elinkeinoista. Sama jakolinja jäsentää myös yhteiskunnan alueellista organisoitumista samoin kuin aluepoliittista ajattelua ja keinovalikoimaa. Tällä jaolla on ollut kiistaton historiallinen tilauksensa ja paikkansa suomalaisen yhteiskunnan kehityksessä toisaalta alueellisiin resursseihin nojautuvana mutta samalla kaupungistuvana kokonaisuutena. On kuitenkin syytä pohtia sitä, missä määrin kahtiajako vastaa nyky-yhteiskunnan alueellista hahmoa ja kykenee suuntaamaan parhaalla tavalla siihen vaikuttavia poliittisia pyrkimyksiä. Esitelmissä tarkennetaan kuvaa maaseudun ja kaupungin keskinäisistä riippuvuuksista eri näkökulmista. Niistä kaksi (Luoto ja Kortelainen) pohtivat maaseutu-kaupunki –paradoksin mielekkyyttä aluehallinnollisten muutosten ja taajamoitumisen näkökulmista. Kaksi esitystä (Lundström ja Honkaniemi) tarkastelevat puolestaan maaseutu-kaupunki –vuorovaikutusta välillisemmin ja erittelevät maaseutupaikkojen korostumista yritysten lähinnä kaupunkilaisille suuntaamassa markkinoinnissa. Viimeiset kaksi esitelmää (Kettunen ja Pyy) tarkastelevat maaseutu-kaupunki –suhdetta maaseudun eri ikäryhmien kautta; yhtäältä nuorten koulutuspolkujen ja toisaalta ikääntyvän väestöryhmän tarpeiden näkökulmasta. Esitelmien teemat virittävät keskustelua maaseutu-kaupunki -asetelman käsitteellisistä tarkennuksista, kyseenalaistavat keskittymiskehityksen vääjäämättömyyttä ja korostavat eri tyyppisten yhdyskuntien keskinäisiä riippuvuuksia.

• Ilkka Luoto (Vaasan yliopisto, aluetiede): Maaseutu-kaupunki -paradoksit alueiden kehittämisessä
• Jarmo Kortelainen (Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Historia- ja maantieteiden laitos): Taajama-Suomi maaseudun ja kaupungin välissä
• Niklas Lundström (Vaasan yliopisto, aluetiede): Paikkaseksikkyyden käsite maaseutukontekstissa
• Tuomas Honkaniemi (Vaasan yliopisto, Aluetiede): Visuaalisuus, paikka ja maaseutu yritysimagossa
• Marika Kettunen (Oulun yliopisto, Maantieteen tutkimusyksikkö): Nuorissa on tulevaisuus? Nuoret, koulutus ja alueellinen dynamiikka
• Ilkka Pyy (Itä-Suomen yliopisto): Ikääntyminen maaseudun yhdyskunnissa - harmaata ja hopeaa

17. Oppimateriaalit ja maantieteen opetuksen tulevaisuus

Aud XI Torstai 25.10. klo 15

Puheenjohtaja: Markus Jylhä (Helsingin yliopisto)

Maantieteen oppimateriaaleihin ja maantieteen opetukseen liittyvässä sessiossa kuulemme viimeisintä oppimateriaaleihin liittyvää tutkimustietoa sekä hanke-esittelyn. Eeva Rinne Tampereen yliopistosta kertoo Suomen ja suomalaisuuden esiintymisestä oppikirjoissa, Markus Hilander Helsingin yliopistosta puhuu geomedia-käsitteen muodostumisesta ja vakiintumisesta oppimateriaaleissa ja Virpi Hirvensalo Turun kaupungin sivistystoimialasta esittelee paikkatietoa opetukseen geomentoreiden avulla tuovaa Kartta.nyt -hanketta.

• Eeva Rinne (Tampereen yliopisto): Suomi ja suomalaisuus peruskoulun oppikirjoissa
• Markus Hilander (Helsingin yliopisto, kasvatustieteellinen tiedekunta): Geomedia ympäristöopin ja maantiedon oppikirjoissa
• Virpi Hirvensalo (Turun kaupunki, sivistystoimiala) Kartta.nyt - paikkatietoa lukioihin etäkoulutuksien ja geomentoreiden avulla

5. Urban hitchhiking workshop: Playful journeys with fellow city dwellers / Työpaja: Kaupunkiliftaus Helsingissä

October 25th 3pm

Urbaria (Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3, 1.krs)

Session chairs: Noora Pyyry (University of Helsinki), Lauri Jäntti (Independent artist-activist), Tuomo Alhojärvi (University of Oulu)

Urban hitchhiking workshop: Playful journeys with fellow city dwellers

In this session, we approach urban public space in practice by experimenting with ‘urban hitchhiking’. This spatial-embodied practice is based on re-inventing the tradition of hitchhiking: instead of hitching a ride with a vehicle, we ask to share the journeys of fellow pedestrians. Urban hitchhikers are often playfully engaged with the urban spaces they move along with, opening up to being differently with others: people, non-human beings, things, and spaces. This opening to heterogeneity and surprise entails potential to cultivate new connections and alternative ways of being in the city.

The session starts with a brief workshop on the practice of urban hitchhiking. Artist-activist Lauri Jäntti teaches the participants about this creative practice with some practical exercises. Once everyone is familiar and confident with the practice, we will launch to the city to try out urban hitchhiking in the nearby areas. After the hitchhiking adventures, the participants will reflect on their experiences collaboratively.

Työpaja: Kaupunkiliftaus Helsingissä

Tässä työpajassa lähestytään kaupunkitilaa leikkisästi kaupunkiliftauksen avulla. Kaupunkiliftauksen tavoitteena on luoda kohtaamisia kaupunkilaisten välille soveltamalla liftaamisen ideaa. Erona perinteiseen liftaukseen on se, että nyt ei pyritä ajoneuvon kyytiin vaan pyydetään päästä hetkeksi kanssakävelijän seuraan. Tämä tapahtuu asettumalla kulkureitin varrelle peukalo pystyssä kyltin kanssa (kts. kuva). Tarkoituksena on jakaa satunnaisen ohikulkijan kanssa hetki elämää ja avata tätä kautta kaupunkitilaa kohtaamisille ja toisin olemiselle.

Työpaja alkaa kaupunkiaktivisti Lauri Jäntin opastuksella kaupunkiliftauksesta. Työpajassa tehdään yksinkertaisia käytännön harjoituksia kaupunkiliftaukseen liittyen. Tämän jälkeen suuntaamme kaupungille kokeilemaan kaupunkiliftausta. Seikkailun jälkeen osallistujat jakavat kokemuksiaan joko heti (aikataulun salliessa) tai myöhemmin illalla lasillisen äärellä. (työpajassa ei pidetä esityksiä, varauduthan ulkoiluun)

Työryhmäsessiot 3: Perjantai 26.10. klo 9

2. Spatial justices and rights: past, present and future spaces

Aud II October 26th 9am

Session chairs: Jukka Keski-Filppula (University of Oulu), Juho Luukkonen (University of Helsinki) and Eija Meriläinen (Hanken School of Economics)

The aim of this session is to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion and exchange ideas of spatial justices and rights. Since the 1970s thinkers such as Lefebvre, Massey, Soja and Harvey have highlighted the spatial dimension of society in understanding inequalities resulting from social processes. Space is not just an empty container of social processes, but rather constitutive of the society - and its (in)justices. Despite the hubris, ‘globalization’ of the world economy has not made space redundant to understanding (in)justice, but rather has accentuated the need to focus on the politics of scale that take place in the processes of de-territorialization/re-territorialisation (Swyngedouw, 2004). Over the past decades the inequalities have intesified, despite critical scholarship and social justice mobilizing (Oswin, 2018). Spatial justices and rights are certainly of high interest to many disciplines, whether it be in the form of spatial growth or poverty, spatial equality or inequality, or issues of rights, morality, agency or knowledge production regarding spaces. Different kind of research have produced valuable insights on these issues over the past years and yet it seems as if they are rather separated from each other. This session is dedicated to explore how different concepts, theories, insights and methods can learn, enrich or even criticize each other to help us to better understanding of spatial justices and rights in past and present research, but also to construct better practices to overcome them in the future. This workshop is open to several different conceptual and methodological approaches and theoretical backgrounds within geography and other disciplines.

REFERENCES

Swyngedouw, E. (2004). Globalisation or “glocalisation”? Networks, territories and rescaling. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 17(1), 25–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/0955757042000203632

Oswin, N. (2018). Society and Space, here and now. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(4), 613–616. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818790806

Questions and topics that might be explored are, among others,

• Concepts, theories, knowledge, and constructions of spatial justice or rights
• EU, state spaces, regions or municipality’s
• Disaster governance
• Food justice
• Gender justice
• Environmental justice
• Digital justice
• Criminal justice
  
   
• Eija Meriläinen (CCR - Centre for Corporate Responsibility; Hanken): Refocusing urban disaster governance through Right to the City
• Heikki Sirviö (Oulun yliopiston), Juho Luukkonen (Helsingin yliopisto): City-regionalism and spatial justice
• Jukka Keski-Filppula (Oulun yliopiston): Is the assessment procedure a threat or an opportunity for a municipality?
• Tuulia Reponen (Itä-Suomen yliopisto): Moraalimaantieteen konfliktit: kommunitarismi vs. kosmopolitanismi

6. The geographies of well-being, quality of life and development

Aud IV October 26th 9am

Session chairs: Mikko Weckroth (University of Helsinki) and Tomas Hanell (Aalto University)

There is an emerging scientific interest in the geography of well-being (WB), especially the subjective evaluations of well-being, or quality of life (QoL). One the one hand this interest stems from an apparent knowledge gap in terms of practical policy formulation, evaluation and justification. On the other hand, disciplines examining different dimensions of well-being such as psychology and economics have acknowledged that adding a spatial dimension to the subject can substantially enrich the existing pool of knowledge.

Thematically, this Working Group covers a wide range of issues. Suitable themes may include different forms of conceptualisations of WB or QoL and how these are practically operationalised at differing spatial scales and contexts, how objective and subjective indicators of well-being intertwine in a spatial setting, or what kinds of implications issues related to WB or QoL may have in terms of strategic planning or regional development policy.

As we are dealing with a truly interdisciplinary scientific field, we foresee contributions not restricted to human geography alone, but also look forward to input from fields like sociology, regional economics, political science, planning, or health sciences, for example. We welcome both empirical as well as theoretical analyses. Through such an interdisciplinary and multi-methodological dialogue, we hope to enhance our understanding of how local, regional and urban development or policy can be depicted or analysed through different conceptualisations of well-being or quality of life.

• Donatas Burneika (Lithuanian Social Research Centre): Regional differences of economic wellbeing and spatial mobility of residents
• Sakari Kainulainen (Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulu): Paikallinen sosiaalinen hyvinvointi
• Roger Norum (Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu), Jonathan Carruthers-Jones (University of Oulu) Mapping the wild: Integrating cartography, ethnography and ecoacoustics

11. Fu­tu­re geo­grap­hies of in­no­va­tion and know­led­ge crea­tion proces­ses

Aud XIII October 26th 9am

Session chairs: Johanna Hautala (University of Turku), Hanna Heino (University of Turku)

We are entering the age of the artificial intelligence that is profoundly changing the geographies of knowledge creation and innovation processes. The meaning of algorithms, digital space and big data in decision making and knowledge creation are growing in companies, public governance, and universities. Humans collaborate increasingly with independently learning artificial intelligence and robots to create knowledge. This development – that has also been named as Industry 4.0 and the second machine age – also creates possibilities and need for future-oriented knowledge. Such knowledge about futures take into account current and past developments and describes the future as it might be. Futures knowledge can support decision makers to take the right actions to shape the desirable and sustainable future. Such future geographies of knowledge creation processes are so far only little known. Geographical research can offer perspectives to understand how digital spaces intertwine with socio-cultural and material spaces in knowledge creation processes, and how data, information, and knowledge move. Profound global and local effects are expected on the second machine age geographies, for instance on gathering (clustering), and dispersing.

We call presentations widely related to knowledge, innovations, futures knowledge, Industry 4.0, smart cities, artificial intelligence, etc. We aim to identify the students and scholars interested and working on this topic in Finland, and launch a network for future collaboration.

• Hanna Heino (University of Turku), Johanna Hautala (University of Turku): Mobile futures knowledge: from science policy to science and to policy
• Seija Virkkala (Vaasan yliopisto): Regional Innovation systems facings the challenges of digital era transnational learning in regional innovation policies in Baltic Sea Region
• Johanna Hautala (Turun yliopisto): Second Machine Age Knowledge Co-creation Processes in Space and Time
• Jari Kaivo-oja (Finland Futures Research Centre, TSE, University of Turku), Mikkel Knudsen (Finland Futures Research Centre, TSE, University of Turku & Theresa Lauraeus, Finland Futures Research Centre, TSE, University of Turku) Manufacturing Baseline Scenarios for Finland and Regional Economies

13. Maisema, kuva ja kokemus

Aud XVI Perjantai 26.10. klo 9

Puheenjohtaja: Hannu Linkola (Turun yliopisto, maisemantutkimus)

Maisemakuvastoja on tutkittu runsaasti suhteessa kansallisvaltion rakentamiseen. Näissä tutkimuksessa on korostunut valtion toimijuutta korostanut poliittinen näkökulma. Kuvastot on nähty kansallismielisen eliitin laatimina spatiaalisen sosialisaation välineinä, joiden kautta on luotu käsitystä kansakunnan historiallisista jatkumoista, kansallisen territorion sisällöistä sekä kansalaisuutta ohjaavista moraalisista koodeista. Samalla maisemien ja kuvastojen on osoitettu rakentavan ihmisten maantieteellistä mielikuvitusta ja siihen liittyviä tunnekategorioita.

Vaikka poliittisen maisemakuvastotutkimuksen näkökulmat on todettu arvokkaiksi, on sitä myös kritisoitu. Ensinnäkin sen on katsottu käsittelevän valtiota itsenäisenä, ihmisistä riippumattomana toimijana, vaikka valtio ja siihen liitetty tapa katsoa maisemia tulisi pikemminkin nähdä valtaa pitävien ryhmien strategisena toimintana. Toiseksi kuvastotutkimuksen on sanottu korostavan visuaalista lähestymistapaa ja sivuuttavan siten maiseman ja ihmisen välisen kokemuksellisen suhteen. Kansallista kategoriaa korostava tutkimusote on myös muuttunut itseään toteuttavaksi tulkintakehykseksi, jonka rinnalla muiden mittakaavatasojen, merkitysmahdollisuuksien ja kuvaston muutosdynamiikan käsittely on jäänyt vähäiseksi.

Tässä työryhmässä tarkastellaan maiseman, kuvan ja kokemuksen välisiä suhteita uudesta näkökulmasta. Mahdollisia teemoja ovat esimerkiksi maisemien ja maisemakuvastojen ylipaikallisuus ja hybridisyys, elettyjen tilojen ja paikkojen suhde maiseman ja kuvaston muutoksiin, maiseman ja maisemakuvastojen synnyttämien affektien jäljittäminen, maisemien ja maisemakuvien vaihtoehtoiset tai muuttuvat luennat sekä maisemakuvastojen taustalta löytyvien toimijaverkkojen ja ideologioiden uuden yhteenkietoutumat.

• Aurora Lähteenniitty (Helsingin yliopisto): Kulttuurimaiseman muuttuminen kokemuksissa ja valokuvissa
• Heidi Haapoja-Mäkelä (Helsingin yliopisto, Kulttuurien osasto): Aineeton kulttuuriperintö, Elävän perinnön wikiluettelo ja kalevalainen maisema
• Mikko Itälahti (Aalto-yliopisto ARTS): Performatiivinen kuvastontutkimus? Metodinen kokeilu
• Hannu Linkola (Turun yliopisto): Suomi 100 maisemina - Lumoavaa luontoa ja kapeaa kaanonia

18. Interpretations of relationships between people, environment and areas

Aud XI October 26th 9am

Session chairs: Pia Bäcklund (University of Helsinki), Meri Norola (University of Helsinki), Arttu Paarlahti (University of Helsinki)

• Alba Montis (Università Di Sassari and the Section of Geography, University of Turku): Use of military lands on the Island of Sardinia
• Antti Petteri Hiltunen (University of Eastern Finland, Department of Historical and Geographical studies): Valosaasteen tutkimus satelliittiaineistojen avulla
• Jaakko Linkamo (Vaasan yliopisto, aluetiede): Kotiseututyö Neuvostoliitossa 1937-1984

10. Minisymposium on conservation geography (in collaboration with Digital Geography Lab)

Aud XV October 26th 9am

Session chair: Johanna Eklund (University of Helsinki)

Biodiversity is declining and this loss is predicted to increase markedly in the future unless drastic action is taken. Halting this loss has been central to both the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, progress to achieve the goals has been slow and success often limited by practical constraints, such as available funds and capacity, but also political will and parochialism. In this session, we will explore what are the tools, data, and methodological advances that geography can contribute with in addressing this loss. We will discuss a) the role of funding in mitigating this loss, b) the impacts protected areas have had, and c) how spatial prioritization techniques can help identifying key areas for biodiversity conservation, balancing the requirements of also other land-uses. We will present work ranging from the global to the local, with clear links to policy-making processes.

Special focus will be given to discuss the use of novel data sources and/or methods, and challenges arising from this for making inferences.

This session is organized in collaboration with Digital Geography Lab and also welcomes audience who are not attending The Annual Meeting for Finnish Geographers

• Daniel C. Miller (University of Illinois): The Allocation and Effectiveness of Global Conservation Funding
• Johanna Eklund (University of Helsinki): Evaluating protected area effectiveness: conceptual and methodological advances
• Joel Jalkanen (University of Helsinki): Spatial conservation prioritization benefits regional land-use planning
• Enrico Di Minin (University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography): Identifying global centres of unsustainable species harvesting