I have been accepted for/awarded a 3 month visiting fellowship (2021) (Professor Level) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. They are a partner in the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, funded by the Academy of Finland.

I would like to thank my hosts for this invite to the Alvar Aalto city.

I hope to take up this opportunity from early August to early November but everything depends on acceptance to leave the country by the Australian government (the only country I know of where citizens have to ask permission to leave, due to COVID-related border control).

Caption: photo of Aalto’s office in Helsinki, taken in 2009 when I was awarded a Massey University Research Fellowship. That trip led to the book Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture (Routledge 2019).