INFRASTRUCTURES 1. Transitions pathways. | A talk with Tatu Marttila
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 4 interviews to people based or coming from: Ireland, Finland, Denmark and the United States. The main focus is in understanding the possible role of design in infrastructures. Mariana started this enquiry interviewing designers involved in the development of services for other projects or based in other infrastructures. She wants to ask them: what can we design in relation to the work of infrastructures? As she works for ICOS, Integrated Carbon Observation Systems. This is a Research Infrastructure focusing on carbon dioxide. 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. Her work at the moment concentrates on one EU project: IRISCC. Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks. In this project they will develop services using a co-design framework. Therefore, her main question is how design could contribute to the development of services?
This podcast has been recorded in Helsinki Open Waves, an audio studio in Caisa Cultural Center, part of Helsinki City. Caisa is a cultural centre that promotes the development of Helsinki into a diverse city by means of the arts and culture.

Credits
Producer and host: Mariana Salgado
Guest: Tatu Marttila
Sound design: Julian Pereyra
Sound recording: Bailey Polkinghorne
Music: Antonio Zimmerman
*The audio piece was recorded at the Helsinki Open Waves performance & recording room located at Caisa.
**The views expressed in this audio piece and texts are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the view of Helsinki Open Waves.
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