Jonna Kangasoja
Jonna Kangasoja is the co-founder and CEO at Akordi, the leading public policy mediation consultancy in Finland. Akordi works with complex environmental and public policy issues involving sustainable natural resource use, land-use conflicts, energy transition, water management and conserving biodiversity.
Jonna has received her negotiation, conflict management and mediation training at Harvard Program on Negotiation and at MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program with Lawrence Susskind 2012-2013. For the past 15 years Jonna has been teaching regular courses on multiparty negotiation and collaborative approach to solving public problems at Aalto University, University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University. Jonna is a practitioner of, and a trained teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion teacher and Impact Negotiations.
Her publications include:
Mäntysalo, Raine; Kangasoja, Jonna; Kanninen, Vesa (2015) The paradox of strategic spatial planning: A theoretical outline with a view on Finland, Planning Theory & Practice, Vol 16:2, pp. 169-183
Kangasoja, J. (2013) Trading Zone as a Sensitizing Concept in Planning Research. In Balducci, A. & Mäntysalo, R. (eds.) Urban Planning as a Trading Zone. Dordrecht: Springer: 179-187
Schmidt-Thomé K., Wallin, S., Laatikainen, T., Kangasoja, J., Kyttä, M. (2014). Exploring the use of PPGIS in self-organizing urban development: The Case softGIS in Pacific Beach, California. The Journal of Community Informatics (special issue on Urban Planning) Vol 10, No 3 (2014)
Peltonen & al. (2012) Sovittelu osana maankäytön ristiriitojen hallintaa (Mediation as a tool for managing land use planning conflicts) (in Finnish) 2/2012 Publications series in Science and Technology, Aalto University, School of Engineering.
Mäntysalo, Raine; Balducci, Alessandro; Kangasoja, Jonna (2011): Planning as agonistic communication in a trading zone: Re-examining Lindblom’s partisan mutual adjustment. Planning theory Vol. 10:3, pp. 257-272
Kangasoja, J. (2010). URBA-hanke tutkimuksellisena interventiona ja oppimisprosessina. Teoksessa Lehtonen, Hilkka et al. Asutaan urbaanisti! Laadukkaaseen kaupunkiasumiseen yhteisellä kehittelyllä. Toimittanut Markku Norvasuo. Yhdyskuntasuunnittelun tutkimus- ja koulutuskeskuksen julkaisuja B 99. Espoo: Aalto yliopisto, Teknillinen korkeakoulu. ISBN 978-952-60-3431-7
Architectural Education as Basis of Planning Work. The Pros and Cons of Professional Enculturation. Journal for Education in the Built Environment, Vol. 5, Issue 2, December 2010 pp. 25-38 (14) ISSN: 1747-4205
Kangasoja, J. & Schulman, H. Eds. (2007) Arabianranta – Rethinking Urban Living, City of Helsinki Urban Facts; Kangasoja, J. & al (2010)
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Jonna Kangasoja
Chief Executive Officer
jonna@akordi.fi
+358 50 441 2863
