⁠Nokia Design Archive is a publicly accessible digital portal developed as a research project at Aalto University’s Department of Design, built from materials donated by Microsoft Mobile Oy and Nokia designers to study the role of design within big organizations like Nokia. The source archive comprises 20,000+ entries and about 950GB of files spanning from the mid-1990s to 2017. Lu Chen as a member of the research project began prototyping interactive visualizations in 2023, continued the web application development in the summer of 2024. The portal was launched in January 2025 with support from Aalto University Communications. This project “remediates” archival material into accessible knowledge through interactive visualizations for a non-academic audience.

Teoman Madra Archive is an ongoing conservation and digitization effort launched in 2021 to rescue and organize the multimedia oeuvre of Teoman Madra, a pioneer of Turkish media art, focusing on works produced between the 1960s and 2000s. The team (Begüm Çelik & Selçuk Artut) first retrieved materials scattered across locations, stabilized fragile carriers, and began systematic digitization and cataloging of slides, negatives, VHS/Betamax/miniDV tapes, optical media, and drives. Descriptions follow museum-grade standards (CDWA/CCO) and include both Madra’s artworks and historically valuable documentary recordings, building a research-ready corpus. 

Tuumailubotti is an experimental conversational AI that explores how a chatbot might represent neurodiverse rhetoric rather than defaulting to neuronormative styles. Built on Finnish FinGPT-3 models to achieve native-level Finnish proficiency, it was evaluated with 31 participants, and its curated dataset has been released openly for further research. In short, Tuumailubotti blends HR support, design research and local-language AI to question how conversational systems can better include neurodivergent ways of communicating.