CURRICULUM VITAE

Family Name: Mikkonen
First Name: Tuija
Education: Doctor of Philosophy (Art History) / University of Helsinki; Master of Science (Economics & Business Administration) / University of Vaasa
Occupation: Researcher
Nationality: Finland
E-mail: tuija.mikkonen (at) luukku.com 


A. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Main areas of specialization

  • Built heritage and cultural landscape
  • History of urban planning and modern architecture
  • Industrial heritage, especially industrial architecture, production processes, worker's settlements and labour history

    2. Employment record & projects

    2009- Intendant, National Board of Antiquities, Department of Monuments and Sites, Helsinki, from 1 April 2009
    2007-2009 Researcher, South Karelian Institute, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta. Eurocrit Project. 1 November 2007 - 31 March 2009.
    2005-2007 Curator, National Board of Antiquities, Department of Monuments and Sites, Helsinki and Vaasa. 5 September 2005 - 31 October 2007
    2004-2005 Research fellow, University of Helsinki, "Industry & Modernism" project, 1 August 2004 - 31 August 2005
    2005, 2003 Teacher of the web-course on industrial heritage studies carried out by TORUS, the Network for the History of Science and Technology, February-April 2005 and September-November 2003.
    1999-2004 PhD research, University of Helsinki, Dept. of Art History. The Finnish Cultural Foundation's scholarship. See the abstract of the research.
    2003 Researcher. The documentation of the industrial site in Oravainen, Oy KWH Mirka Ab, Oravainen, Finland, 19 May - 31 August 2003.
    2002-2003 Project leader. The documentation project of the industrial process of the flax spinning mill in Malax, Finland, October 2002 - August 2003.
    2002-2003 Teacher of the study circle on the history of the Cotton Mill in Vaasa, Vasa arbetarinstitut.
    2002 Researcher, Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, 16 April - 31 May 2002
    2001 Project Secretary, University of Helsinki, Dept. of Art History, 1-31 December 2001
    2000-2001 Networking Coordinator, "Industrial Heritage Platform" project, National Board of Antiquities, Helsinki, 25 July - 31 Oct. 2000 and 13 Dec. 2000 - 20 March 2001
    1999-2005 Curator (part time), Vaasa Museum of Labour, from 4 March 1999 to 31 August 2005
    1997 Trainee, The Arts Council of North Karelia, Joensuu, August - October 1997.
    1996-1998 Assignments with exhibitions and collections in museums specialised on cultural history; Malax museiförening (The Boat Museum), Stundars - The Museum and Cultural Centre, Korsholm.
    1987-1993 Project Manager, UPC Consulting Ltd, Vaasa, 20 Nov. 1987 - 30 Nov. 1993
    1985-1987 Foreman & System Developer, Printing house Oy Polyprint Ab, Vaasa, 1 Aug. 1985 - 19 Nov. 1987
    1984-1985 Assistant in Accountancy, University of Vaasa, 1 Jan. 1984 - 31 July 1985
    1982-1983 Researcher and postgraduate studies at the Plekhanov Institute of Economics, Faculty of Industrial Economics, Moscow, USSR, November 1982 - June 1983. Topic of the research: Measuring the Efficiency of Investments at Socialistic Industrial Companies (Osobennosti otsenki ekonomitsheskoj effektinosti kapitalnyh vlozhenij sotsialistitsheskogo promyshlennogo predprijatija / objedinenija).
    1981-1982 Assistant in Accountancy, University of Vaasa, 1 Sept. 1981 - 31 July 1982
    1980-1981 Head of the Bookkeeping Department, Vaasan Puhelin, Vaasa, September 1980 - August 1981

     

    3. Scientific engagements & confidential posts

  • Journal "Industrial Patrimony - Resources, Practices, Cultures", Paris. Co-editor, Member of the Editorial Committee, From 2001 onwards.
  • ICOMOS International Committee for Monuments and Sites, Paris, Desk reviewer for assessment of a property nominated to the UNESCO World Heritage List, October 2008.
  • Journal "Tekniikan Waiheita - Teknik i Tiden", the Finnish Society for History of Technology, Contributor 1999-2002 and from 2006 onwards, Co-editor 2003-2005.
  • Member of The Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists.
  • "Industrial Heritage Platform 2000-2002", Nordic-Baltic Cooperation Project on Industrial Heritage, Finland's coordinator, 2001-2002.
  • The Finnish Society for Industrial Heritage, TICCIH-Finland, Member of the Board 2001-2002 and Correspondent from 2001 onwards.
  • The Finnish Society for Urban Studies, Treasurer, 2000-2006.

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    4. International assignments

  • Eurocrit, Inventing Europe research project, 2007-2010, financed by European Science Foundation and Finnish Science Academy.
  • The international multidisciplinary research project "Industry & Modernism": Member of the group of nine researchers from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Lithuania. The funding for 2003-2005 from The Councils for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Nordic Countries. The leader of the group: docent Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna, University of Helsinki.
  • "Industrial Heritage and Societies in Transition", The Research School 2002-2004, The funding from the STINT Foundation, Sweden. The leader of the research school: professor Marie Nisser, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

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    5. Monographs

  • Mikkonen, Tuija, Corporate Architecture in Finland in the 1940s and 1950s: Factory Building as Architecture, Investment and Image. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2005.
  • Mikkonen, Tuija, Industrihistorisk dokumentation av linspinningsverksamheten vid Oy Almedahl Ab i Malax. Malax museiförening, Lokal- och regionhistoriska bidrag 4, Malax, 2004.
  • Mikkonen, Tuija - Andersson, Katarina, Strömberg Park - Rakennushistoriallinen selvitys. Pohjanmaan museon raportteja 4. Pohjanmaan museo, Vaasa, 2002. (Documentation of the built environment at Strömberg Park, Vaasa)

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    6. Articles in international publications

  • Historic dockyards and maritime heritage, in: Industrial Patrimony. Nr 20, Paris 2008.
  • Cast the Anchor!, in: The Future of Historic Dockyards. Round-Table Report, Suomenlinnan 2008. The Governing Body of Suomenlinna, Helsinki, 2008, 113-115.
  • Companies Manifesting their Identity through Architecture, Industry and Modernism: Companies, Architecture and Identity in the Nordic and Baltic Countries during the High-Industrial Period,Anja Kervanto Nevanlinna (ed.), Helsinki: SKS, 2007.
  • "Viljo Revell - Urbaanin järjestyksen luoja / Master of urban order, article, Arkkitehti 2/2005, 22-35.
  • "Alvar Aalto and the Industrial Area of Strömberg Corporation in Vaasa", article, PTAH 2/2002, Alvar Aalto Academy, Helsinki.
  • "Industrial Heritage in Modern Urban Environment", conference report, TICCIH Bulletin, No 17 - 2002, TICCIH, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Mikkonen, Tuija - Nupponen, Terttu, Industrial Development in Karelia near the Finnish-Russian Border, Industrial Patrimony, Nr 17, 2007, 9-17. Paris.
  • Buildings and Corporate Communications, Yhdyskuntasuunnittelu, Vol. 41, 2003:3, 84-87. Helsinki, 2004.
  • "Industry and Commerce Shaping Architecture -Local Applications of Viljo Revell's International Ideas", refereed article, Universal versus Individual - the architecture of the 1960's, Conference proceedings. Alvar Aalto Academy, Helsinki, 2001, 68-71.
  • "Strike a Light! - how matches are made" - Multimedia presentation on CD. Manuscript and photos. Producer: Vaasa Museum of Labour, August 2002.
  • "Industrial Heritage in Finland", Industrial Patrimony, TICCIH, Paris, Issue No. 6, December 2001, pp. 37-44.
  • "Industrial heritage in Finland", Industrial Heritage Platform, Finland/Lithuania, Web site: http://www.ihp.lt, July 2001
  • "'Consulting hours' on industrial heritage", TICCIH Bulletin, Terrassa, Spain, Number 13 - Summer 2001.
  • "Industriarkitektur i konsthistorieforskningen" (Industrial architecture in the art historian studies), Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, Stockholm, 1/2001, pp. 102-105.

    • Co-editor of the journal Industrial Patrimony - Resources, Practices, Cultures, Paris, France, From 2001 onwards.
    • Co-editor of the magazine of the Finnish Society of History of Technology Tekniikan Waiheita - Teknik i tiden, Helsinki, Finland, 2001-2005.
    • Web master, Vaasa Museum of Labour: http://www.saunalahti.fi/labourm, 2001-2007
    • Web master, Allmogebåtföreningen Knopen rf, Vaasa: http://www.knopen.org, 2001- 2007

     

    7. International conferences and seminars

    2008:
  • SHOT – 50th Annual Meeting, Society for the History of Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 October 2008.
  • TICCIH Seminar on Training and Education within the Field of Industrial Heritage, Stockholm & Norberg, 8-11 June 2008. Presentation: “eLearning as one method in industrial heritage education”.
  • Transnational infrastructures: Coping with scarcity and vulnerability, Stockholm, Eurocrit network, 21-24 May 2008. Presentation: “Vulnerability, reliability and security of critical Finnish-Soviet energy infrastructures”.
  • The Suomenlinna Dockyard in the Future?, Helsinki, 22-24 April 2008, Chair of the concluding discussion.
  • Research Trends in History and Archaeology in Finland in the last decades, Academy of Finland, Helsinki, 19 January 2008.
    2007:
  • Encountering the Russian North, Joensuu, 12-13 Decemberg 2007, Organised by Europe Beyond East-West Division Centre of Expertise at the University of Joensuu Russia in Flux research programme of the Academy of Finland
  • Kulturmiljöer i den kommunale arealplanläggningen - utviklingsressurs og hensynselement, Nordregio et al., Reykjavik, Islanti, 26-29 Sept. 2007.
  • BigStuff2007 – Large technology objects: Beyond conservation – Industrial Heritage Management, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Saksa, 11-14 September 2007
  • Beyond Dichotomies - Nordic Planning Resarch Symposium, Oulun yliopisto, Oulu, 16.-18.8.2007.
  • Enso - Svetogorsk - the city with two cultures, Svetogorsk, Russia, 30 May 2007
  • Economics and Built Heritage, seminar, Helsinki University of Technology et al, 12-13 February 2007, Hämeenlinna.
  • Eero Saarinen – Shaping the Future / Problematisk gjenbruk, National Museum of Norway, University of Oslo, DOCOMOMO. Oslo, Norway, 8-9 February 2007.
    2006:
  • "Tensions of Europe: Technology and Rethinking European Borders", conference, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, 25-28 May 2006. Mikkonen was organiser of the round table session: "Industrial development across national borders and its influence on identity".
  • "Heritage at Risk: Preservation of 20th Century Architecture and World Heritage", conference, ICOMOS and Docomomo, 17-20 April 2006, Moscow, Russia. Presentation: "Avant-garde architecture compared: Yekaterinburg, Turku, Aalborg and Kaunas".
    2005:
  • "Economics and Built Heritage: Built Heritage - Value Adding Sector", International expert seminar, 12-13 December 2005, Helsinki, Finland. The National Board of Antiquities (Finland), the National Heritage Board (Sweden) and Riksantikvaren (Norway), Helsinki. Presentation: "Valuing Industrial Architecture".
  • "Industrial Heritage between Land and Sea: European Network of Ecomuseums", International seminar and workshop, Culture2000, 29 October - 1 November, 2005, Ministry of Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece. Presentation: "Educating and training on industrial heritage - the case of the co-operation project of the Nordic and Baltic Countries".
  • "Corporate Images - Images of the Corporation", 10th annual conference of the European Business History Association, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1-3 September 2005. Presentation: "Corporate Architecture - a mirror of business".
  • "New Developments in Industrial Tourism", TICCIH Intermediate conference 2005 & International Forum for Industrial Tourism, Nagoya / Aichi, Japan, 5-10 July 2005. Presentation: "Industrial Companies and the Creation of Identity through Architecture in the Nordic and Baltic Countries from 1940 to 1980".
    2004:
  • "Industriella kulturarv/världsarv, industriminnen och historiebruk", 6-7 oktober 2004, Falun, Sverige. Organiserad av Högskolan Dalarna. Inbjuden föreläsare: "Forskningsläget i Finland och framtidsutsikter för akademiskt samarbete om industriella kulturarv i Norden".
    2003:
  • "Museums and the Industrial Heritage - an international perspective on a national endeavour", 30 October - 2 November 2003, Odense, Denmark. Organised by Odense City Museum and the National Cultural Heritage Agency. Presentation: "Documentation of industrial processes at a flax spinning mill - An example of a low-cost method".
  • "The Meaning of Modernism in Architectural and Cultural History", Industry and Modernism Research Project, 9-11 October 2003, Turku, Finland. Lecture: "Business + Buildings = Industrial Architecture?"
  • "The Transformation of Old Industrial Centres and the Role of Industrial Heritage", XII International Conference of TICCIH, The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage, Conference, Moscow-Ekateringburg-Nizhniy Tagil, Russia, 10-17 July 2003. Paper: "E-learning in international collaboration".
  • The Nordic conference on the cultural heritage of the industrial society "Forskning och praktisk kulturmiljöarbete i Norden" (Research and practical work on cultural environment in the Nordic countries), Norrköping, Sweden, 5-6 February 2003.
    2002:
  • "Industrial Heritage in Modern Urban Environment", International Conference arranged by Riga City Council, Riga, Latvia, 19-20 September 2002
  • "Universal versus Individual - the Architecture of the 1960's", International Conference on the Research of Modern Architecture, Jyväskylä, 30 Aug. -1 Sept. 2002, Alvar Aalto Academy, UIAH. Lecture: "Industry and Commerce Shaping Architecture - Local Applications of Viljo Revell's International Ideas".
  • "Companies - Owners - Employees", 6th European Business History Association Annual Congress, Helsinki, 22 - 24 August 2002
  • Business History Conference "Corporate Governance", Hagley Museum & Library, Wilmington, DE, USA, 18-20 April, 2002. Paper: "Corporate Policies in Designing and Constructing Factories"
    2001:
  • Industrial Heritage and Societies in Transition, Industrial Heritage Platform. Workshop No 1: Bergslagen, Sweden, 23-29 April 2001; Workshop No 2: Liepaja, Latvia, 30 Sept. - 7 Oct. 2001.
  • Recording Living Industrial Heritage, Industrial Heritage Platform, course. Kaunas, Lithuania, 29 August - 5 September 2001
  • Transformation of Modern Cities, Changes in the Physical Fabric and Politics, Conference. University of Tampere; Tampere, Finland, 11 - 12 May 2001
  • Dangerous Liasions, Preserving Post-War Modernism in City Centers, Conference. ICOMOS-Finland, Helsinki, Finland, 15 - 17 February 2001
    2000:
  • TICCIH - The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage, Millennium Conference, London, UK, 30 Aug. - 7 Sept. 2000. Paper: "The Networking Project on the Industrial Heritage in the Baltic Sea Region".
  • The 9th International Conference of Planning History, Helsinki/Espoo, Finland, 20 -23 Aug. 2000. Paper: "The Industrial Architecture and its Role in Shaping the Urban Environment".
  • NORDIK2000 - Historiography of Art history, The 6th Nordic Symposium of Art History, Uppsala, Sweden, 15 -17 June 2000. Paper: "Industriarkitektur - en gren I konsthistoria".
    1999:
  • The Big Picture, Nordic Summer School in the History of Technology, 3 credits, Bjerringbro, Denmark, 12 - 18 Aug. 1999. Paper on the dissertation topic.
  • Industrial heritage in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Seminar on Co-operation in Strategies, Research and Training, The National Board of Antiquities, Helsinki, Finland, 1 - 3 October 1999.
  • The 10th Nordic conference on labour history, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 3 - 5 September 1999.
    1998:
  • Industrial Heritage in the Nordic Countries - Knowledge, Theories and Methodology, Post-graduate course on industrial heritage, 20 credits, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1 January 1998 - 7 December 1998
  • The Environments of the Industrial Age - an Asset for the Post-Industrial Society? International seminar, Museum of Work, Stockholm - Norrköping, Sweden, 11 - 13 Sept. 1998
  • Preserving the Past, Investing in the Future. Arts, Crafts and Techniques of Heritage, International seminar, 250 hours, Institute of Cultural Studies of Europe & the Mediterranean, Athens - Thessaloniki, Greece, 25 Febr. - 25 March 1998.
  • Industrial Heritage in the Nordic Countries - Thematic seminars:
    - Forsvik, Sweden - Nordisk industriminnesseminarium - 29-31 May 2008
    - Vyborg, Russia - Nordic seminarium, 12-13 June 2007
    - Fredrikstad, Norway - Transformation of industrial buildings to museums, 27 - 30 Sept. 2001
    - Malmö, Sweden - Reuse of industrial areas, 13 -15 Oct. 2000
    - Borås, Sweden - Textile industry, 7 - 9 April 2000
    - Tampere, Finland - Reuse of industrial areas 20 - 22 Aug. 1999
    - Forsvik, Sweden - Metal industry, 6 - 9 June 1999

     

    B. EDUCATION

    1. University of Helsinki, 1999 - 2005
    Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    Major: Art History (History of Architecture)

    2. University of Helsinki, 1994 - 1998
    Degree: Master of Arts
    Major: Art History (History of Architecture)
    Minor: Museology, Ethnology, Latin American Studies and Sámi Studies

    3. University of Vaasa
    Duration of Studies: 1977 - 1982
    Degree: Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration
    Major: Accountance and Financing
    Minor: Statistics, Informatics, Economics and Law


    C. LANGUAGE SKILLS

    Finnish, mother tongue
    Swedish, written and spoken competency
    English, written and spoken competency
    Russian, written and spoken competency
    Spanish, some written and spoken ability
    German, some written and spoken ability
    Norwegian and Danish, passive written and spoken ability
    French, basic knowledge


    Updated: 9 January 2010