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Meanings and MaterialitiesConference – Exhibition

Cable Factory (Valssaamo), Helsinki
6–15 June 2024

Conference 6–8 June 

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    Exhibition 6–15 June

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    Olli Pyyhtinen


    Biography
    Olli Pyyhtinen is Professor of Sociology and the founder of Relational Studies Hub (RS Hub) at Tampere University, Finland. His research intersects social theory, philosophically inclined fieldwork, STS, economic sociology, and the study of art, and he is the author of for example More-than-Human Sociology (2015), The Gift and Its Paradoxes (2014), The Simmelian Legacy  (2018), and Simmel and ‘the Social’ (2010). Pyyhtinen is the PI of the GIFT project (Kone Foundation, 2021-2024) organising the conference, and currently he is also leading two projects on the leaky realities of waste and the circular economy, WasteMatters (ERC Consolidator Grant) and DECAY (Research Council of Finland).