Awards

In research, journalism, nonfiction, documentary film, architecture and urban planning

2025

Aalto University Dissertation Award, for Genius or Charlatanry? A psychobiographical reinterpretation of the life and works of Buckminster Fuller

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2019

Tiedon harava [Rake of Knowledge], for achievements in climate journalism, Finnish Environmental Journalists Association

2011

TunnustusPAANU [Shingle of Acknowledgement], for advancement of ecological design and public environmental consciousness in Finland, Finnish Association of Architects

2008

Honorary Award, for the non-fiction book Ilmastonmuutos. Nyt. [Climate Change. Now.], Lauri Jäntti Foundation

2007

KOURA Award, for the best weekly current affairs tv program, Prisma Studio (15-member working group), Koulutusrahasto KOURA

2005

1st Prize, pollution and climate change category, for the documentary film The Venus Theory, EarthVision

A souvenir or plaque with the words 'Television 2005 Winner' and a decorative dragonfly with pink wings and a white body, set against a background of blue and green waves.

2005

Prize of the Rector of the Technical University in Zvolen, for the documentary film The Venus Theory, Envirofilm

2004

Special Prize of the Jury, for the documentary film The Venus Theory, Image et Science

1992

3rd Prize, Core Centre of Savonlinna (9-member working group), City of Savonlinna & Finnish Association of Architects

1992

Special Honorary Mention, L’Axe Majeur: a series of urban spaces to Paris (student competition, 8-member working group), Les Ateliers d’été de Cergy

1990

Student Medal, for the work Jazzhole: a bandstand for Tapiola, European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS)