A warm welcome to explore the scientific findings by the Decarbon-Home project and discuss their societal implications to our last research seminar on 3 June 2026!
Decarbon-Home (2020-2026) is a Strategic Research Council-funded research consortium between five research institutes, now in its sixth year. Our key objective is to work with our stakeholders to find new ways to make housing more climate-wise in a fair and equitable way. In our final research seminar, consortium researchers present their latest and ongoing work along our joint path towards understanding and fostering social equity and climate-wisdom in housing, construction, and renovation. With Finnish empirical cases as their backbone, the presentations cover the range of the consortium’s research activities – citizen agency, socio-spatial inequalities, and co-creative solutions.
Research Seminar: Towards Equitable Climate-Wise Housing
When: Wed 3 June 2026 at 9:00-13:00
Where: Sokos Hotel Pier 4, Katajanokanlaituri 4, Helsinki
Programme:
09:00 Opening words
09:10 Citizens’ agency
- Liisa Kääntä, Eveliina Salmela (University of Vaasa): The images and understandings of climate-wise living in public discourses
- Sara-Ellen Laitinen (University of Helsinki): Consumer agency in performing sustainable home practices
- Hanna Ahtosalo (University of Vaasa): Value creation of a gamified application among different stakeholders
09:50 Coffee
10:10 Socio-spatial inequalities
- Joni Vainikka (University of Helsinki) et al.: Five Finlands of climate attitudes and the front and back stages of climate-wise practices
- Anna Strandell (Finnish Environment Institute) et al.: Energy use, emissions and inequality across primary and second homes
- Joni Vainikka (University of Helsinki) et al.: Left-cold spaces and emptying neighbourhoods with explorations into future housing stocks
10:50 Co-creative solutions for accelerating the transition
- Rayhanur Rahman (University of Helsinki): Enhancing wood use in construction: networks, ecosystems and circular solutions in Finland
- Atte Koskivaara (Natural Resources Institute Finland): Innovation systems for sustainability: insights from wood construction businesses and land use planning in Finland
- Jouni Räihä (Finnish Environment Institute): Policy support towards socially equitable climate-wise housing
11:30 Decarbonising housing – crossing boundaries
- Common discussion: what have we learned about housing, climate-wisdom, justness; and how do we move forward
11:55 Final words
12:00-13:00 Lunch & informal discussions
