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Dr. Aare Puussaar is a Researcher at Newcastle University's SAgE Technical Services, focusing on citizen engagement in smart cities through grassroots data advocacy. With an engineering and data science background, he collaborates with communities to democratize access to data and tools for hyper-local action, bridging technical systems with social science perspectives.
His research centers on participatory design and action research, emphasizing community-driven data production, sense-making, and local democracy. Projects include empowering citizens to commission environmental data collection and infrastructure, merging engineering sprints with targeted universalism principles from public health.
Prior to academia, he worked as a software architect at a research company and as a researcher at Orange Labs in France. He advocates for interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing inspiration from Bell Labs' cross-disciplinary innovation, and recommends social theory to address human complexities in technological solutions.
