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Tutkimusseminaari – Kohti vähähiilistä kotia ja asumista: näkökulmia hiiliviisauteen 6.2.2025

Tervetuloa keskustelemaan Decarbon-Home-hankkeen tähänastisista tieteellisistä tuloksista ja niiden yhteiskunnallisista vaikutuksista yhdessä hankkeemme kansainvälisten asiantuntijoiden kanssa. Neljän ensimmäisen hankevuoden aikana olemme lähestyneet asumisen ja rakentamisen oikeudenmukaisen kestävyysmurroksen edistämistä monista näkökulmista. Olemme tuottaneet tietoa asumiseen ja ilmastonmuutokseen liittyvistä arvoista, asenteista, käytännöistä, ilmastotoimenpiteiden edellytyksistä, ja jo toteutettujen toimenpiteiden onnistumisista. Parhaillaan kehitämme konkreettisia työkaluja ja ratkaisuja yhdessä monien sidosryhmien kanssa.

Kansainvälisen tieteellisen neuvonantajaryhmämme asiantuntijat edustavat omien alojensa huippututkimusta. Asiantuntijat ovat mukana tutkimuspäivässä sekä kommentoimassa ja keskustelemassa hankkeemme tuloksista, että tuomassa omia näkökulmiaan asumisen ja rakentamisen vähähiilisyyskeskusteluun. Asiantuntijoiden lähestymistavat koskettavat asumisen vähähiilisyyskysymyksiä filosofiasta politiikkaan, teknologiaan ja käytäntöihin. Päivän kieli on englanti.

Asiantuntijat

Sampsa Hyysalo, Aalto
Jesper Ole Jensen, Aalborg
Ruut Peuhkuri, Aalborg
Harald Rohracher, Linköping
Ted Schatzki, Kentucky

Kohti vähähiilistä kotia ja asumista: näkökulmia hiiliviisauteen

Milloin: torstaina 6.2.2025 klo 9.00-15.30

Missä: Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki (Kokouskeskus, Tiimi A4)

Ohjelma:

09.00-09.30 aamukahvit, posterinäyttely

09.30-09.45 Decarbon-Home-hankkeen tilannekuva (Katja Lähtinen ja Uula Saastamoinen)

09.45-11.15 Hankkeen tulosesittelyjä (hankkeen tutkijat)

Henna Syrjälä: Macro and micro perspectives to online discourses on climate-wise housing
Santtu Karhinen: Energy poverty and housing values
Anna Strandell: Household energy consumption in primary and second homes and just energy transition
Eliisa Kylkilahti: Are people willing to share living space? Household preferences in Finland
Joni Vainikka: Five Finlands: Segmenting climate attitudes to manage equitable decarbonisation of housing
Jani Lukkarinen: Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments
Charlotta Harju: Co-creative methods to develop solutions for sustainable housing – Evidence from workshop series, Hackathon, and Transition Arenas
Erkki-Jussi Nylen: Thirty years of wood construction policy: a case of performative governance?

11.15-12.00 lounas, posterinäyttely jatkuu

12.00-13.30 Paneeli “Crucial issues around decarbonizing” (Hyysalo, Jensen, Peuhkuri, Rohracher, Schatzki)

13.30-14.00 kahvitauko, posterinäyttely jatkuu

14.00-15.30 Hankkeen meneillään olevan tutkimuksen esittelyjä (hankkeen tutkijat)

Sara-Ellen Laitinen: Caring for home: Barriers for home maintenance
Jouni Räihä: Which subsidy achieves the fairest distribution – Evidence from Finnish oil boiler subsidies
Anne Viljanen: Business ecosystems for urban sustainability: Retrofits, wood construction and nature-based solutions in Finland
Joni Vainikka: Vacant houses, emptying neighbourhoods: The (geo)politics of heating buildings in Finland

Ilmoittaudu mukaan täältä!

Decarbonising the house and the home: perspectives on carbon wisdom

When: Thu 6 February 2025 at 9:00-15:30

Where: Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790 Helsinki (Meeting centre, Tiimi A4)

The Decarbon-Home project warmly invites you to explore its scientific findings and discuss their societal implications with our team of international experts. Over the first four years of the project, we have examined the promotion of a just sustainability transition in housing and construction through diverse perspectives. Our work has produced valuable insights into values, attitudes, practices, conditions for climate action, and the successes of existing measures addressing housing and climate change. We are now collaborating with a broad array of stakeholders to develop concrete tools and solutions.

Our international scientific advisory group consists of leading experts from diverse fields, each representing the forefront of research in their respective domains. These experts will join us on the research day to comment on and discuss the findings of our project while sharing their own insights into the low-carbon transition in housing and construction. Their perspectives will span a wide range of topics, from philosophy and policy to technology and practice. The event will be conducted in English.

Experts:

Sampsa Hyysalo, Aalto
Jesper Ole Jensen, Aalborg
Ruut Peuhkuri, Aalborg
Harald Rohracher, Linköping
Ted Schatzki, Kentucky

Programme:

09:00-09:30 morning coffee, poster exhibition

09:30-09:45 Snapshot of the Decarbon-Home project (Katja Lähtinen and Uula Saastamoinen)

09:45-11:15 Project results presentations (project researchers)

Henna Syrjälä: Macro and micro perspectives to online discourses on climate-wise housing
Santtu Karhinen: Energy poverty and housing values
Anna Strandell: Household energy consumption in primary and second homes and just energy transition
Eliisa Kylkilahti: Are people willing to share living space? Household preferences in Finland
Joni Vainikka: Five Finlands: Segmenting climate attitudes to manage equitable decarbonisation of housing
Jani Lukkarinen: Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments
Charlotta Harju: Co-creative methods to develop solutions for sustainable housing – Evidence from workshop series, Hackathon, and Transition Arenas
Erkki-Jussi Nylen: Thirty years of wood construction policy: a case of performative governance?

11:15-12:00 Lunch, poster exhibition continues

12:00-13:30 Panel ”Crucial issues around decarbonizing” (Hyysalo, Jensen, Peuhkuri, Rohracher, Schatzki)

13:30-14:00 Coffee break, poster exhibition continues

14:00-15:30 Presentations of ongoing research (by project researchers)

Sara-Ellen Laitinen: Caring for home: Barriers for home maintenance
Jouni Räihä: Which subsidy achieves the fairest distribution – Evidence from Finnish oil boiler subsidies
Anne Viljanen: Business ecosystems for urban sustainability: Retrofits, wood construction and nature-based solutions in Finland
Joni Vainikka: Vacant houses, emptying neighbourhoods: The (geo)politics of heating buildings in Finland

Register to the event here!

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Ruokamo, E., Kylkilahti, E., Lettenmeier, M. & Toppinen, A. (2024). Are people willing to share living space? Household preferences in Finland.

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Julkaisun nimiAre people willing to share living space? Household preferences in Finland
KirjoittajatEnni Ruokamo, Eliisa Kylkilahti, Michael Lettenmeier, Anne Toppinen
JulkaisijaBuildings & Cities
ISBN/DOIDOI:10.5334/bc.453
Julkaisupäivä8.11.2024
Lue julkaisu täältä.
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Abstract

This paper explores citizens’ interest in space sharing in private housing. It is based on a large-scale random sample citizen survey (N = 1448) conducted in Finland focusing on multiple aspects of low-carbon housing. Both quantitative preference-related results and qualitatively analysed open question responses show that the concept of shared space use is relatively low in popularity. However, there are differences depending on the space to be shared. Approximately half of the respondents are willing to use shared space for exercise, children playing and repairing activities, whereas a small fraction would use it for cooking, working and studying, or guest accommodation. Respondents’ backgrounds only slightly impact the willingness to share spaces. However, people in urban areas are more willing to share spaces. Larger floor area per inhabitant is negatively associated with the willingness to share spaces. This implies that sufficiency in housing is linked with space-sharing interests. This paper concludes that space-sharing is relatively unattractive under present conditions. Improving functionality and social trust by attractive design, clearer user rules and spreading good examples could be approaches to enhance the situation.

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SEMINAR 19.3.2024: Decarbonizing suburban and rural housing

DECARBON-HOME has entered its second three-year term, and we are stacking up a great variety of research findings. Now, we are arranging a one-day research seminar that portrays both our researchers and the streams of science along which we collaborate. We thus feature keynotes by two of our senior scientists, professors Jarek Kurnitski and Anne Toppinen, both members of the Finnish Climate Change Panel. Our two focal approaches to decarbonizing housing and construction in Finland – Governance, Business, and Policies and Values, Attitudes, and Practices – bring together researcher presentations in two sets of parallel sessions.

Decarbonizing suburban and rural housing – Citizens as agents of change

Research seminar

When: 19 March 2024
Where: University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 33, 3rd floor, auditorium F3003

Welcome to the seminar! See the full program below (or in pdf-format).

You can register your interest by clicking HERE, or by scanning the QR code:

DECARBON-HOME on aloittanut toisen kolmivuotiskautensa, ja olemme jo tuottaneet paljon erilaisia tutkimustuloksia. Nyt järjestämme yksipäiväisen tutkimusseminaarin, jossa esitellään sekä tutkijoitamme että lähestymistapoja, joiden kautta teemme yhteistyötä. Pääpuhujina on kaksi johtavaa tutkijaamme, professorit Jarek Kurnitski ja Anne Toppinen, jotka molemmat ovat Suomen ilmastopaneelin jäseniä. Kaksi keskeistä lähestymistapaamme asumisen ja rakentamisen hiilidioksidipäästöjen vähentämiseen Suomessa – hallinto, liiketoiminta ja politiikat sekä arvot, asenteet ja käytännöt – kokoavat tutkijoiden esitykset rinnakkaisiin sessioihin.

Tervetuloa seminaariin! Katso koko ohjelma alta (tai pdf-muodossa).

Rekisteröidy klikkaamalla TÄSTÄ tai skannaamalla QR-koodin:

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Want to get in on the action to make a difference for a more sustainable world? Nest Hackathon will provide you with the tools!

The Nest Hackathon is organized in collaboration with Helsinki Think Company and the experts in the field from the Decarbon-Home research project.

Nest Hackathon is a multidisciplinary weekend challenge that brings together students and professionals from various study backgrounds to develop innovative solutions for sustainable housing. The participants will develop a pilot that helps to renovate over a million homes in Finland and help tackle one of the biggest emitters in Finland.

The hackathon will have an unique atmosphere, where teams can focus on developing a pilot product for the theme of the challenge. Helsinki Think Company will create an atmosphere that encourages innovation and is familiar to hackathon veterans everywhere.

Who can take part?

Good news, the hackathon is open for everyone! No matter if you are a student, in the early stages of your career or further along, this is the perfect opportunity to challenge yourself and learn from the experts in the field. All that is required is that the person brings their talent to the table and wants to be part of a team that innovates in an efficient manner.

It is possible to apply to Nest Hackathon individually or as a team. The teams can be either set or formed by the organizers.

The ability to understand Finnish is required within the team, as some of the material is in Finnish only. Not everyone within the team has to be Finnish-speaking, though.

The theme of the challenge – how to make energy renovation as easy as possible for homeowners?

Climate change and the energy crisis have encouraged more and more Finns to consider and implement energy renovations in their homes. In particular, there are many opportunities for energy efficiency measures in rural areas, where renovations are currently needed.

Therefore, there is a need for tools and solutions to tackle this issue. During Nest Hackathon, the participants will work in interdisciplinary teams to create gamified solutions through an app to incentivize sustainable behaviors and provide homeowners with information and resources to make their homes more environmentally smart.

The wider scope: knowledge to action!

The Nest Hackathon is organized as a collaboration between Helsinki Think Company and the multidisciplinary Decarbon-Home research project. The project’s mission is to promote a fair and socially just sustainability revolution in housing and construction. Decarbon-Home works together with cities, residents and other stakeholders to reach concrete solutions in order to reach the goal.

Nest Hackathon occurs over a weekend with the experienced facilitation by Helsinki Think Company. However, the challenge does not stop there! For the best ideas, there is excitingly a possibility for further funding within the project.

How to apply?

Nest Hackathon will take place on the weekend of 15th to 17th September. Application period to Nest Hackathon lasts until August 31st. But why wait until then? We will make the first selections already by June 9th, so that you can spend the summer relaxing!

Apply to make a difference and grow as an expert in a unique atmosphere! Read more and apply at thinkcompany.fi/nest

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Kylkilahti, E., Autio, M., Harvio, V., Holmberg, U. & Toppinen, A. (2022). Co-developing sustainability – a consumer-inclusive approach to wooden housing business in Finland.

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Julkaisun nimiCo-developing sustainability – a consumer-inclusive approach to wooden housing business in Finland
KirjoittajatEliisa Kylkilahti, Minna Autio, Viktor Harvio, Ulrika Holmberg, Anne Toppinen
JulkaisijaHousing Studies
ISBN/DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2114592
Julkaisupäivä9.9.2022
Lue julkaisu täältä.
Read publication here.

Abstract

The housing construction industry can address sustainability issues by developing its business practices. This requires a shift from a firm-driven business logic to a consumer-inclusive approach where consumers and businesses together enhance sustainable development. By analyzing data from focus group discussions with both industry experts in the wooden multi-storey construction business and consumers residing in novel wooden buildings, this study examines how businesses can engage consumers in the development of sustainable housing. The results are presented as an iterative dialogue process that acknowledges consumers as important actors to whom innovative housing solutions should be appropriately introduced and whose lived experiences need to be understood. The findings indicate that consumer experiences can feed the creation and uptake of innovations that enhance sustainability in the construction sector. The study fosters the material aspect of sustainable housing and, by highlighting consumer participation and communication, proposes tools for its consumer-inclusive co-development.

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