Joanna Saad-Sulonen

I have mostly taught master’s level students at different universities in Finland and Denmark, since 2004. I have taught various courses on design and collaborative work topics between 2009 and 2015 at the University of Art and Design, Aalto University, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, and the Aarhus University. During my time at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), between 2018 and 2022, my teaching responsibilities included managing my own courses on service design for master’s students and co-teaching bachelor level students. I have since August 2023 started teaching Service Design to master’s students at LUT University, as part of the newly launched master’s programme in Digital Systems and Service Development for software engineering students. I have also taught the User Interfaces and Usability course to bachelor students in software and systems engineering at LUT. I have co-designed both courses, and I am acting as course manager for them. I have also co-taught the Research Design and Methods master’s course at LUT.

In addition to this experience, I have given short workshops to master’s students in Lebanon and Japan. I have also acted as course manager for an intensive PhD level course on Critical Participatory Research and Design at ITU in 2022 and will be co-teaching another PhD level course on Prototyping Re-considered at ITU in spring 2024.