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Back to EpisodesDr Heikkilä and the Science of Participatory Culture
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If you found a “hippie-proof” story-cube at a festival or in a war-zone, would you share your story with it?
Stuart and Andie talk with Finnish scholar Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, about the Burning Stories project, the qualitative research of hope and anger, the innovation at Burning Man Regional events in Europe, and teaching entrepreneurialism in Lebanon and North Korea.
What more can we learn about Burning Man culture by studying it academically?
How do randomly assembled project teams knit themselves into longer-term collaborative and creative relationships? Why does it matter?
In a world with an unpredictable future, what more can we learn about participatory culture, psychological safety, and communal resilience?
https://forum.burning-stories.org/
Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Ph.D
Aalto University & Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford & Harvard University Visiting Scholar
The Royal Society & British Academy Newton Fellow