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Ella Björn is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Lapland's Faculty of Art and Design, affiliated with the Multidimensional Tourism Institute and the Discipline-specific doctoral programme. Her work focuses on strategic foresight, service design, and place-making, with a particular emphasis on cultural tourism and posthumanist methodologies. She collaborates across disciplines, contributing to projects funded by the European Regional Development Fund and Business Finland.
Research interests include the intersection of design fiction, heritage preservation, and arts-based methods to enhance cultural tourism strategies. Notable projects include the Active Arctic initiative, which develops digital solutions for remote areas, and SmartCulTour, exploring cultural tourism's role in sustainable regional development.
Ella has organized workshops on topics like human-robot interaction in meaningful places and empathic stakeholder mapping using generative AI. Her publications address analytical frameworks for proof-of-concept development and the socio-material practices in indigenous cultural transmission.
Recent activities include media contributions discussing Arctic development and innovation support for businesses in Lapland. She has contributed to an open dataset of interviews with senior service designers, enriching discussions on creative knowledge generation.
