I'm Petter!
#researcher, designer and co-op enthusiast with a keen eye for data, political theory and the forest. Learn more about me by scrolling down. If you want to know more, contacts are in the menu to the right.
- Current Employer Karlstad University
- Current Position Lecturer // Research Coordinator //PhD Candidate
- Research Environment CTF - Service Research Center // Political Science
- ORCID 0000-0001-6650-4568
#me and stuff I do.
Data, design and democracy research in the intersection between Swedish public sector, European policy and international activism. I’m a junkie for political philosophy, applying video game references to social analysis and spending time in the forest.
#projects and stuff
Democracy Data 2018 – 2020
by RISE, Karlstad University, the City of Malmö and the City of Karlstad
DEMOCRACY DATA – Innovation Management for a Data Smart Social Service is a development and research project to explore and promote data-driven innovation as strategy as well as the data-centering of policy in digitalization of Swedish social welfare services. This by investigating the explicit role of data in municipal digitalization policy, design management structures that promote data-driven innovation at the management level as well as mapping and systematizing the implementation of a series of data-driven innovations within the social welfare services.
My role:
Besides initiating the research application and consortium, I act as project manager and researcher with a focus on RPA, AI and data-driven innovation.
Swedish Drone Policy Lab
by RISE, VINNOVA and the Swedish Transport Agency.
Together with a team of designer, innovation managers and researcher we planned and designed a process modell for the Swedish Drone policy lab (N2018/03935/MRT). The Swedish Government instructed the Swedish Transport Agency to produce a policy framework for unmanned aircraft, so-called drones. Our team at RISE helped developed policy development methodology and facilitated a series of policy lab initiatives to help create a foundation for relevant, modern and evidence-based national policy.
My role:
Drafting the process design and workshop layout and compiling information on the current policy landscape and process.
xKRP – Community Experience Data Lab Kronoparken
by Research Institutes of Sweden
Project manager for establishing the national data lab xKRP. Funded by the Swedish National Innovation Agency VINNOVA, the goal is to establish a national data lab focused on developing, testing and evaluating visualization, interaction and use of data with the local community as a starting point. The method is based on facilitating case / sub projects with the consortium as resource and the community as a starting point.
My role:
My role in in xKRP has been to spearhead the funding application and compiling the project consortium – ranging from national government agencies to small data start-ups and to manage both the overall projects and individual cases within the lab. This includes dialogue with NGO:s, activists and public actors, planning and execution of data gathering and analytics workshops.
John Moose – O
by Anlesser/John Moose
In John Moose’s second release, the woods come to the listener – via virtual reality. Focus was to visualize the ecological, interpersonal and spatial perspective, combining both music, movies and digital technology.
The app was made available for download in the app store and google store. All that the listener needed was a pair of VR glasses for smartphones. The release was covered by numerous tech and music magazines, amongst other, Metal Sucks and Music Crowns.
My role
My role in the O project was filming, VR-development, visualization and project management.
Open4Citizens
for Research Institutes of Sweden
Project manager for the Swedish part of the research and data innovation project Open4Citizen. This Horizon2020 project focuses on bridging the gap between open data and citizen’s involvement in developing new health care
services.
My role in Open4Citizens has been to facilitate the ecosystem of stakeholders and project actors, managed dialog with data owners and management data and to managed the planning and execution of two data based hackathons: Hackathon for Health 2016 and 2017.
My role:
Project manager, in charge of data and data driven service design
Link: Open4Citizens
John Moose – Prerelease
by Anlesser/John Moose and Marcus Sjögren
My culture collective John Moose released an app in 2015 where you could listen to our debut album absolutely free – but only if you where in the forest. Using the GPS tracking system within Google Maps as a trigger for the in-app music player, we forced thousands of listener to put on the hiking boots and walk into the wilderness. The launch received much attention and was mentioned in , inter alia, The Rolling Stone Magazine and Time Magazine. The concept has also recived several awards and prestigious nomination, among other The Golden Wolf and the The Golden Egg.
My role:
Concept development, development/test and marketing (film + photo)
LINK: John Moose Prerelease
Verksamt Värmland
av Attityd i Karlstad för Almi Värmland och Bolagsverket
In 2014 I worked as consultant for the Swedish Companies Registration Office to develop a regional pilot for the governments digital business application Verksamt.se. The assignment was to find a structure for the page’s information infrastructure and a plan for user experience. The mission was conducted along with the research institute Interactive Institute.
The launch was preceded by an extensive research effort. This was partly focused on scenario outcomes based on page features, partly on research on international best-practice.
My role:
Project manager for reserach, process design, UX-test and evaluation.
LINK: Verksamt Värmland
Innovation System Mapping
by Attityd i Karlstad
Between 2012 – 2014, me and Attityd in Karlstad conducted several comprehensive survey of the support and innovation system for presumptive and existing entrepreneurs in Värmland. The aim of the mapping was to identify deficiencies, areas of improvement and needs within the system. The mapping and related research also became the basis for the matching of the support system’s service offering applied to the web service Verksamt Värmland.
Within these survey, a handful of large categorizations and visualizations were made of the survey results. The result was implemented partly through a workshop and partly through subsequent process support aimed at the project Värmland.
My role:
Researcher, project manager and data visualizer
The Commuter Commuters – Gamification of Data results
by Attityd i Karlstad for the municipality of Karlstads, Värmland Traffic and the National Transport Administration
During the spring and autumn of 2015 me and my firm Attityd worked for the social transformation project Train-on-Time managed by the municipality of Karlstad, Värmland Traffic, the National Transport Administration and others. A portion of this research was compiling data-sets on how commuters relate to public transport.
To create a more accessible and user-friendly implementation of the result we developed a game that , based on the research data, gave the players the task to persuade a person, in the game called Janne , who is reluctant to take public transportation to work and would much rather use his car, to try taking the bus.
Based on a combinations of the arguments generated from the data research the game hosted a series of answer combinations that led to either Janne taking the the bus to work or, if you lost, Janne taking his car to work.
My role: Concept developer, programmer for Enalyzer/HTML
Civic Karlstad
by Petter Falk
CIVIC KARLSTAD was a project sprung from the Hyper Island/Swedish Institute YLVP program. Civic Karlstad’s purpose was to highlight the need for digitization and innovation processes in the non-profit sector.
The initiative have was handpicked to participate in the European Culture Foundation’s prestigious innovation program Idea Camp , worked the with Excellence Research Group CTF, hosted workshop at Service Convention Sweden and functioned as a reference organization for the government committee on the civic sectors.
My Role:
Initiating and funding the project. Education design and concept developer
UTSATT
by Research Institutes of Sweden
The project UTSATT aims at producing three prototypes where academic gender equality research
meets Virtual Reality (VR). All prototypes are based on various technical approaches, in order to
spread the possibilities for future commercialization of the product in different price segments.
My role:
Spearheading the funding application and compiling the project consortium and to manage the research team, technical team and visualization team trough out the project.
Samverkan 365 (Cooperation 365)
for the Red Cross
Developed a platform and method for local cooperation between public sector and NGO’s in the field of migrant and asylum support.
The platform contained digital guidance for agents within public sector and NGO’s, a series of vizualisations and a method toolkit to strengthens cross sectoral cooperation.
My role:
Creating the methodological and digital framework for the platform and supervising the implementation of the process.
#work
Karlstad University
Lecturer // Research Coordinator
Doing democracy-research on the relationship between data, services and policy when implementing decision making algorithms and AI in public welfare
Completing my PhD studies with supervision from CTF - Center for Service Research
RISE / CTF / KAU
Researcher / Service Designer
Research and innovation projects aimed at data, services and policy. Primarily focused on the role of data in digital democracy.
Completing my PhD studies with supervision from CTF - Center for Service Research and Political Science at Karlstad University.
RISE
Project Manager / Service Designer
Project Manager/Service Designer for research and innovation projects and processes with a focus on digital development, data-driven systems, service research and strategy.
My job revolves around research, planning and organizing of individuals, data and general target groups to identify and design new processes, services, information infrastructures and routines.
Attityd i Karlstad
Project Manager /Process Designer
Project manager and process designer for the market research and market analysis firm Attityd.
My main focus was on creating and implementing methods for collective intelligence, workshops and data collection and implementation.
The Municipality of Karlstad
City Management Official
Co-ordinator working with spatial planing, democracy strategic economic development.
National Council of Swedish Youth Organisations, LSU
Workshop Facilitator /Workshop Designer
Facilitator in the All Different All Equal campaign. Developed and applied methods to discuss norm criticism, and gender equality with young people ages 13 - 18.