B IO G R A P H Y
J A R M O I L M A R I
S U O M I N E N
Professor Jarmo Suominen specializes in mass
customization strategies, user innovation concepts and customer experience management
processes and tools. He is working in these fields as a professor and a private
consultant.
Professor Suominen conducts Mass Customization
research at the Aalto University A! (the former
University of Art & Design),
Jarmo Suominen’s current interests are focused to
transform production driven architectural design to user centered industrial
design and product creation process. Current projects are addressing various
layers in the process of developing and constructing new mass customizable
buildings, communities and areas. By understanding challenges in design,
manufacturing, marketing and selling processes there is an opportunity to
develop models for more customer driven ways for designing, manufacturing and
selling buildings.
Jarmo Suominen is developing mass customization
strategies for companies in the media, construction and service sector. Current
research is focused on configurable high-interest, high-involvement products
and services. One of the research programs is the 24 Living Research Program
with 5 industry partners. Objective of the program is to develop mass
customizable offerings, identify relevant value networks and engage user
innovation process to the offering portfolio.
Since 1999 Jarmo Suominen has been working in
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT as a visiting scientist in MIT Media
Lab and a visiting scholar in the Department of Architecture. Professor
Suominen has started the 24 Living Research and Development program with MIT
House-n in January 2007 (a 3 year program) to address the holistic demand in
multidisciplinary and value networked context. Proposed research will go beyond
the user demand by addressing the desire of customers in housing. The project
will develop the hypothetical supply using hybrid organization model as a straw
man, and ultimately generate solution concepts for mass markets.
Jarmo Suominen is the owner and a Principal
Consultant of Suominen Consulting. Consulting commissions focus on innovative
and customer driven design, manufacturing and marketing processes and strategic
planning in various scale; from furniture design to city planning.
Jarmo Suominen is the owner of Suominen
Architects Ltd, an architectural practice since 1991. He has won numerous
prizes in architectural competitions in
As a director of EcoDigiCity
Ltd Jarmo Suominen has been developing sustainable and technically highly
advanced city concepts and design manuals for especially Chinese markets.
Jarmo Suominen is also a Senior Advisor in
Ogilvy One Finland and Taivas Group, part of the WPP one of the world's leading
communications services groups. He develops multi channel customer experience
and communication strategies for Ogilvy Taivas Group.
Professor of Mass Customization /
Director of Future Home Institute /
Senior Adviser Taivas Ogilvy
Principal Consultant Suominen Consulting
Owner of Suominen Architects Ltd
MCPC2009 Conference General Chair
J A R M O I L M A R I
S U O M I N E N
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
A R C H I T E C T S A F A A R K
4 8 0 A –
DATE OF BIRTH 03.06.1959
EDUCATION
1980-1983 University of
1981-1983 University of
1982-1990 Tampere
2001- Helsinki University of
Technology / Postgraduate degree studies
PROFESSIONAL DEGREE
1990 Master of Science in
Architecture
PROFESSIONAL STATUS
Authorized Member of the
Association of Finnish Architects SAFA
Since 1990
Registered member of FISE n:o 480
since 2000 (for practicing architecture and planning)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Finnish (ml), English (fluent),
Swedish (good), German (moderate), French (moderate)
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Since 2005 Ogilvy One
Senior
advisor, customer experience management
Since 2002 Taivas Group (part of
WPP, including Sulake labs, Habbo Hotel)
Senior
Advisor
Since 2000 Senior Consultant
Suominen Consulting
Chairman
of the Board
Since 1997 Director of Architects
Suominen Oy
Chairman
of the Board
2006-2009 EcoDigiCity Consulting Ltd
Founding
Partner, Member of the Board, Vice President
1991-2008 SRMT Oy Architects
Suominen - Raveala - Mäntylä Oy
Chairman
of the Board
1989-1997
Architects Sopanen –
Suominen- Svärd - de la Chapelle Oy, Trollius
Chairman of the Board
1984-1989
A-consultants Ltd,
Project
manager
1983-84 SATO Architects OY
Project
architect
1985-87 Architects Tähti-Set OY,
1988-89 Architects A-konsultit OY
Project
assistant
ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS
1998 Pöytyä Parish Hall (with K.Miettinen), invited competition, 1st
prize
1997 Finnish Embassy in
1997 Ecological Day Care Centre in Viikki Helsinki, honorary mention
1996 Europan, Home in the City;
1996 Tampere Central Square (with P.Jukola), honorary mention
1996 Helsinki City Residential Environments Competition (with
P.Jukola), honorary mention
1996 Residential Block of Flats for ATT in Malminkartano Helsinki,
honorary mention
1995 Village in Archipelago 2000, (with P.Jukola), honorary mention
1995 Helsinki City Kiosk Competition (with P.Jukola), higher
category entry
1994 Elementary School in Soininen Helsinki (with P.Jukola),
honorary mention
1992 Ideas Competition of the Banks of River Aura in Turku, (with
M.Anttila, P.Jukola), purchased entry
1992 Nordic Ideas Competion of Marja-Vantaa Areas in
(with
P.Jukola J.Raveala, S.Mantyla, J.Tissari), honorary mention
1990 Residences in Tammisalontie in
(with
P.Sopanen, I. Svärd), 1st prize
1989 Kiuruvesi Market Square (with P.Sopanen, I.Svärd) 3rd prize
1989
(with P.Sopanen, I.Svärd), 3rd prize
1989 Lielahti T-Central Ideas Competition by
purchased entry
1988 Suburban Renewal Competition in Imatra (with P.Sopanen,
I.Svärd), purchased entry
1987 Malmitalo Community Hall in
1985 One -Family House in Wood / The
International Anonymous Design Competition
Jugoslavia,
honorary mention
1984 Concorso di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia in Italia,
exhibition entry
ART EXHIBITIONS
2000 Digital Me, installation, Sitra, Nykyaika Gallery Lasipalatsi
Helsinki
1998 Design museum Helsinki/Homo Mobilis,
1998 Futurehome Institute, "MediaHome"
1992 Kluuvi Gallery in
1992 Cité des Arts Galerie, Pariisi,"Boites D´arts I",
Suominen and Jukola
1993 Cité des Arts Galerie, Pariisi,"Boites D´arts II",
Suominen and Jukola
1993 USF Kulturhus,
1983 Helsinki Biennale1983,
"Wood/Space/Time”Puu-Tila-Taide" 1st prize and realization
Helsinki
Museum of Art
1984 Biennale di Venezia, Italia
1985 The
CREATIVE ART COMPETITIONS
1983 Wood-Space-Art Competition, Helsinki Festival Week, 1st prize
MEMBERSHIPS IN JURYS OF
ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS SAFA
1997
1992 Environmental Arts Competition "Through the Grey
Stone"
SCHOLARSHIPS
1996
Danish Finnish
Cultural Foundation, scholarship for travel in
Culture specific living situations
1995
Foundation of Visual
Arts, a studio scholarship in
Environmental art
1995
Finnish Cultural Fund,
scholarship for design "Scenery and ParkWay " in
Environmental art
1993
Wihuri Foundation,
scholarship for creative work in
Art exhibition
1993
Norwegian Finnish
Cultural Foundation, scholarship for creative work in
Art exhibition
1993
Council of Arts
Finland, scholarship for creative work
Art exhibition
1992
Foundation of
Kordelin, scholarship for creative work and travel in
Art exhibition
1992 The Building Information Institute/ scholarship to the group
MOUKARI
for
an exhibition pavilion in
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2008-09 MCPC2009 Conference
General Chair
Mass
Customization and Personalization Biannual
World Conference 2009
2008 Head of the Aalto Metrics and Criterias
Transformation team, (HSE, HUT, UIAH)
2006-
Director 24 living
research consortium
Tekes, UIAH, MIT, Companies
2005-
MIT House_n, Senior
Advisor
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
2004-
Director Future Home
Institute
2003-04 MIT House_n, Media Laboratory, Visiting Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
2002-
Professor of mass
customization, Department of Design
2000-02 MIT House_n, Department of Architecture, Visiting Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
1999 Invited visiting Professor (not filled due personal matters)
1996-02 Senior lecturer, Department of Interior Design
1992–00 Assistant Teacher. Lecturer, Department of
Architecture
1996 Expert advisor and lecturer of Vasa Interactive Studio Vitech,
Project teacher
Vasa
Polytechnic Institute
1997 Nordplus Workshop in
1993 Nordplus Workshop in
1989-92 Department of Architecture, Assistant Lecturer
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2009 Work + Life ; Nokia, NCC, Kone, Elisa,
Senaatti properties
Project partners; Tekes,, UIAH / MIT
2008 Kalasatama, Roadmap to Sustainable
Community
Project partners; SRV, VVO, Kesko
2008 Multichannel Customer
Journey ;
Project partners; Tekes,, UIAH /Fujitsu Services, Kesko
2007
Situated
Innovations; Tracking and validating context related
user innovations
Project partners; Tekes, Elisa, Nordea, Ego, Taivas, UIAH / MIT
Resources; 2007-2010,
2007
Digital Natives; Digital identities and user innovation in virtual
worlds
Project partners; Tekes
Resources; 2007, Jaana
Hyvärinen, Jarmo Suominen
2007
SAWE, Situated Activities in working environments, User experience and
organizational enablers
Project partners; Elisa, NCC Finland, Workspace, ISS,
Tekes, UIAH / MIT
Resources;
2007-2009, Jarmo Suominen, Riikka Rahtola, Jaana Hyvärinen, Kent Larson
(advisor)
2006 24 Living, User innovation and value networks,
engagement process and new service providers
Project partners; Elisa, Igglo, Kesko, SRV,
VVO, Tekes, UIAH / MIT
Resources; 2006-2010, Jarmo Suominen, Kent
Larson, Renita Niemi, Juha Villanen (Finpro)
2006
AHAA - Customer Experience management in Housing
Project partners; Aso-Kodit, KONE,
YIT, 4AS securities, Tekes, Uiah / MIT
Resources; Jarmo Suominen , Antti Pirinen ,
Susanne Jacobsen, Kent Larson
2006 ACE - Areal Customer Experience;
Area development and user experience, tracking and evaluating
Project partners; Art and Design
City Helsinki, Surpelto
Resources 2006-2007;
Jarmo Suominen, Jaana Hyvärinen, Renita Niemi, Janne Orava
2005
ABS Area balanced
Scorecard; Benchmarking, comparison and evaluation of
strategic city development
Project partners; Art and Design City
Helsinki, Kesko, Arabianrannan kauppakeskus, Tekes, UIAH
Resources 2005-2006; Jarmo Suominen, Jaana
Hyvärinen, Renita Niemi, Janne Orava
2006
Living Cluster definition; Value networks and service providers, enablers and
infrastructure in housing
Project partners; UIAH, Tekes
Resources 2006; Jarmo Suominen
2005 ASTAT - Technology and building automation in housing
Project partners; 22 Technology
companies, 5 Universities (UIAH)
Resources
2006; Antti Pirinen, Jarmo Suominen
2006 EA – Customer Differentiation and new community based
segmentation in Housing
Project partners; Ministry of
Environment,
Resources 2006-2007; Jarmo Suominen, Antti Piirinen, Susanne Jacobsen
2004
Active@Work; Value adding processes and 60+ seniors in modern society
Project partners; EU IST Funding
Program, UIAH
Resources 2004-2006 ; Kirsten
Sainio, Jarmo Suominen
2004
TSA Future of Senior Housing, New design drivers in senior and disables
housing
Project partners; 12 companies in
various fields of housing, UIAH, Tekes
Resources 2004-2006 ; Susanne
Jacobsen, Jarmo Suominen
2004 HISSI tuli taloon; User driven renovations (case
elevator renovation)
Project partners; UIAH, Tekes
Resources
2004-2005; Riikka Rahtola, Kimmo Rönkä,
Jarmo Suominen
200 IKE; Lifecycles of people and buildings (case
building infrastructure renovation)
Project partners; UIAH, Tekes
Resources
2004-2005;
2004 Smart Store, New ways of interaction in the context of
RFID, Multichannel experience, WWW
Project partners; S_Group (Shopping malls), Turo tailor, Luhta
Resources
2004-2005; Jaana Hyvärinen, Eija
Nieminen, Jarmo Suominen
2004 Living trends, Consumer trends at housing
Project partners; Tekes, Future
Home Institute
Resources;
Virpi Vaittinen, Jarmo Suominen
2004-05
IntelCities -
Intelligent Cities; User innovation and e-goverment
Project partners; City of
Resources
2004-2005; UIAH, CKIR, UM
2004 Living Logistics at Helsingin Jätkäsaari; new impacts
of e-commerce and new service modells
Project partners; City of
Resources
2004-2005; Kimmo Rönkä, Jarmo Suominen
2005 Living Services; service provisioning, user innovation,
service integrator on new service models
Project partners; UIAH / Tekes
Resources
2005 ; Jarmo Suominen
2005 Creative campus (case Kumpula-Arabianranta);
1.1.2005-31.5.2005
Project partners; City of
Resources;
Jarmo Suominen, Kimmo Rönkä
2004 Common Ground; Living Logistics and Neighborhood
Integration in Arabianranta.; 2004-2005
Project partners; Art and Design,
Resources; Kirsten
Sainio, Kimmo Rönkä, Jarmo Suominen
2003-05 Mass.Be Mass Customization in Built
Environment; 2002-2005
Project partners; NOKIA, YIT, ELISA, Tekes,
Uiah
Resources 2003-2005
; Jarmo Suominen, Kaisa Soini, Antti Pirinen
2002 Mobile Work / Enabling Environments, Tekes, Nokia
Project partners; NOKIA, Tekes
Resources
2002-2003; Jarmo Suominen
2002 Customer Experience Design , Ogilvy / Taivas / Uiah
Project partners; Ogilvy One
Finland
Resources2002-2005;
Jarmo Suominen
2001 Mass.A , Mass customization in Housing, Tekes
Project partners; Skanska, Elisa, Telia-Sonera, Luhta
Home, YIT, Tekes, UIAH
Resources 2001-2003;
Jarmo Suominen, Antti Pirinen
2000 New technologies in Building cluster, Tekes
Project partners; YIT, Elisa,
Tekes
Resources
2000-2002; Jarmo Suominen
2001 Virtual apartment service, mass customization of
housing; 1999-2001
Project partners; YIT, Asuntosäätiö. VVO,
Sato, Tekes, Uiah
Resources; Jarmo
Suominen, Tommi Mononen, Hanna Karkku, Jan Wervijen
2000 Virtual apartment interface, mass customization of
housing; 1999-2001
Project partners; YIT, Asuntosäätiö. VVO,
Sato, Tekes, Uiah
Resources; Jarmo
Suominen, Tommi Mononen, Hanna Karkku, Jan Wervijen
1998-01 Mediahome,
University of Industrial Arts Helsinki FutureHome Institute,
Project partners; UIAH, Tekes
Resources;
Jarmo Suominen
1998-01
Project partners; YIT, Asuntosäätiö. VVO,
Sato, Tekes, Uiah
Resources; Jarmo
Suominen, Tommi Mononen, Hanna Karkku, Jan Wervijen
ARTICLES / RESEARCH REPORTS /
REVIEWS
2007
ABS, Areal
Balanced Scorecard
Research Report 2007, Tekes publications
Jarmo Suominen, Renita Niemi, JaanaHyvärinen
2007
Research Report 2007
Differentation in Housing,
Ministry of Environment publications
Suominen, Pirinen, Jacobson
2007 ACE, Areal Customer Experience
Research Report 2007
Suominen, Niemi, Hyvärinen
2007 24 Multifunctional
Presentation of article and Conference proceedings
Jarmo Suominen
2007
Mass Customized
models for culture specific localization of
living concepts
Jarmo Suominen
2007 Experience, MIT MCPC 07 Academic Conference,
Customer Experience
management process
Jarmo Suominen, Kirsti
Lehmusto, Toni keskinen
2007 DNA of virtual interaction, Montreal MCPC 07 Business
Seminar, Avatar marketing,
Mew marketing models
Jarmo Suominen
2007 Customer relationship management in housing AHAA,
Tekes research review
Jarmo Suominen, Antti Pirinen, Susanne
Jacobsen
2007 One Experience, Engagement
process of high interest, high involvement consumer goods.St Paul de Vence,
Jarmo Suominen
2006 EcoDigiCity, Mass customizable city concepts
Jarmo Suominen
2006 Engagement process in high interest, high involvement
products
Nice, Ogilvy Report
Jarmo Suominen
2006 Mass Customization and workplace
Research Report, Tekes
Jarmo Suominen
2006 New paradigms of housing design
Jarmo Suominen
2005 One Experience, Keynote MCPC Hong Kong 2005
MCPC 2005 Conference proceedings
Jarmo Suominen
2005 New service concepts in housing
Asumisen
kehitysnäkymät. Uudet tuote- ja palvelukonseptit.. Research report 318/05.
Heinonen, Sirkka;
Lahti, Pekka; Rönkä, Kimmo; Pirinen, Antti & Suominen, Jarmo.
2005 Enabling Multi-Mode Work.
Mass.Be
Mass Customization in Built Environment project, research report.
Suominen, Jarmo, Pirinen, Antti; & Virtanen, Katja
University of Art and Design Helsinki.
2005 Workshops - Collaborative Arena for Generative Research.
In Proceedings of DPPI 2005,
Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces Conference.
2005
My Home: Mass Customization in
Housing. In Proceedings of 3rd Interdisciplinary World Congress on Mass
Customization and Personalization. The
Suominen, Jarmo I.;
Pirinen, Antti; Karkku, Hanna & Mononen, Tommi [2005].
2004 Workplace Mass Customization. In Proceedings of 3rd
Interdisciplinary World Congress on Mass
Customization
and Personalization. The
Science
and Technology,
INVITED GUEST LECTURES
2009
2008 MIT Smart Customization Group
2007
2007
2007 HEC,
2007 MIT,
2007 IU,
2007 CKIR,
2007 Elisa Vodafone, Steering Group, Ubiquitous living (at) Home
2007
2007 Customer Experience and Real Estate, KIINKO 2007 Executive
workshop
2006 Keynote,
2006 Overview, Living Concepts, design manual,
2006 IST EU living lab program launch,
2006 China Shangai Cihaf 2006, Ecological city
2006 BIAS 2006, Milano Fair
2006
2006 Ogilvy CEM seminar, Ogilvy, Canary Warf,
2005 Mass customization in Housing,
2005 CEM Metrics, Ogilvy Consults world wide seminar seminar,
Ogilvy, St Paul de Vence, Nice, France
2005 Keynote, Mass Customization Conference MCPC 2005, Hongkong
2005
2005 Keynote, mass customization in housing,
2005 Keynote, mass customization in housing, Wellington New
2005 Mass customization In Workplace, Nokia,
2004 Mass Customized City,
2004 Living Lab research concepts, EU IST conference,
2004 Mass Customization and user innovation, Kiinko seminar,
2004
2004 Living Lab research concepts, EU IST conference,
2003 Sophia Antipolis, masscustomized work environments
2003
2003
2003
2003 Göteborg, Mobile Work, Älvstrand project
2003 Paris, RfiD in masscustomization, Cstb
2002
2002 Customized City, city of
2002 Living Trends, Asuntotietokeskus
2002 User Innovation in Housing,
2002 User interaction process in interior design
2001
2001 YIT, Living trends
2001 Customer behavior in real-estate
engagement process, Huoneistokeskus
2001 MyHome,
2000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
2000 NCC, IT Seminar, Information
Technology in Building Construction Business
2000 Interiors 2000, Virtual Apartment Planning
2000
2000 TEKES, Vera Seminar, Virtual Apartment Planning
Lectures prior 2000 (sample
of)
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, guest lecture, Modula Architecture
Vasa Polytechnic Institute,
“Space-Time-Motion”
Royal
L´École d´Architecture de Paris
Belleville, France, guest lecture and critiques session
CONSULTING PROJECTS Suominen Consulting
2009 City of
2009 Kyyhkylä Manor Hotel and Wellness Centre Redevelopment Mikkeli
2009 Panostaja Oy Helsinki: Rethinking Customership and Consuming
Markets
2007-
2009 Piiroinen Oy Salo: Office and Working, Innovative Furniture
Concepts
2006-
2009 EcoDigiCity Ltd: Ecological Digital
Cities Concept
2008 City of
2007-
2008 Cities of Mikkeli, Jyväskylä and Joensuu by Finpro: Cities Wellbeing
Project
2002-
2009 Taivas Ogilvy Group / Ogilvy One / One
Experience
2002-
2007 Suurpelto Espoo: Master Planning and
Design Manual for Urban Design
2000
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS Suominen Architects Oy
Architectural projects has
been published in national TV and in various Finnish and international reviews
and magazines such as Finnish Architectural Review, Arkkitehtikilpailut,
Avotakka, Glorian Koti, Arkkitehtiuutiset etc.
1991-
2009 34
Apartment Renovations and Interior Designs
1998-
2009 9 Private Houses, New or Extensions
/Renovations
2000-
2009
7 Commercial Renovations and
Interiors
1998-
2008 12 Restaurant Renovations and Interiors
1998-
2009 26 Holiday Houses, Courtyards etc Miscellaneous Jobs
1991-
2009 20 Commissions for
1989- Jarmo Suominen designed various projects
for his previous firms SRMT Ltd and Trollius Ltd
1996 Projects included Traffic and Environmental Designs, Senior
Housing, Housing and Interiors.
For full
references please visit
www.arksuominen.com
CONTACT
Jarmo Suominen
Suominen Consulting
Kytöpolku 10 02100
tel + 358- 9– 66 99 02
gsm UIAH
+ 358–44–30 49 465
gsm
E -mail
MIT;
Office; suominen@arksuominen.com
UIAH; jarmo.suominen@uiah.fi
URL portfolio
http://www.arksuominen.com