7 Experiences – Aalto Experience Mapping experience research workshop

The overall goal of the workshops is to advance experience research by sharing the knowledge between experience researchers from different disciplines. The workshops are not designed to be training sessions, but after a short introduction, we will jointly identify and discuss the workshop topics that unite experience researchers across domains and disciplines. Since we want to develop experience research, the discussions will be mostly academic. We cannot guarantee the most immediately pertinent experience for practitioner participants. However, the perspectives of practitioners are invaluable, and we warmly welcome active practitioner engagement. We hope the workshops may provide opportunities for participants to identify potential collaborators and initiate new projects.

Workshop chairs:
Sofia Pantouvaki, Professor of Costume Design for Theatre and Film  and
Virpi Roto, Professor of Experience Design, General Chair of the Summit

To make full use of the 1-hour workshop, we take the following actions:

• • We will collect participants’ perspectives on the workshop topics through a preparatory activity, and discuss the emerged key themes in the workshop.
  • The workshop discussions focus on topics important for the experience research in general. Unfortunately, we will not have time to discuss and advise specific projects during the short workshop, but we would love to hear about your projects at a later point.
  • We encourage short statements from the participants and will have to brutally stop lengthy or out-of-scope statements.
  • We record the workshop, analyze the discussion and compile a report. We also plan to share a short summary video online.

Workshop material

Pre-task results
Map of experience research fields – do you find yours?