Kirsta Kosonen

Doctor of Arts, Alumna

Krista is a Finnish designer-researcher based in Helsinki. She is one of the three founders of the Finnish collective Imu design, which has promoted young design talents by organizing exhibitions since 2002. Krista has graduated as Master of Arts from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2005, and since then worked in the fields of furniture & visual design, exhibitions, curating and design research.

Krista worked in the Handling Mind research project by examining students’ creative processes. Her doctoral dissertation, Finding One’s Own Way in Design – Reflections on Narrative Professional Identity, was defended in 2018, and it explores designers’ and design students’ narratives from the point of view of narrative identity. She currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Postive Learning, a service for teachers to teach and assess Social and Emotional skills to kids.