Taru Rastas

Taru is a collaborative and industrial designer with background in economics. Multidisciplinary collaboration perhaps best describes her design aspirations in the crossroads of data and technologies connecting individuals, organisations and societies. Taru is also an experienced civil servant working in the digital and data policies at the national and EU level. She has previous experience in the fields of intangible capital and IFRS reporting.

Co-designing for data responsibility

This talk is about exploring possibilities to co-create responsible and innovative data practices in customer interaction. I base this talk on the insights gained in a research project with seven organisations that co- ideated data practices for corporate data responsibility. I try to envision collaborative practises in search of human-centric data responsibility as a response to the organisation-centric development in data economy.

This study grounds on the framework of corporate digital responsibility by focusing on data related processes and practices with co-design methods. My approach to data responsibility addresses the need to design reciprocal relationships between organisations and people. The premier method is facilitated dialogue by engaging participants in a design game for the idea formation of data practices. With field experiments and conceptual frames, I hope to take part in the discussion of designing for responsible use of data, transparency, trust and accountability embedded in relations within the socio-technical systems.

My talk touches upon human-centricity in data, systemic design, collaborative-driven interaction and service design with data, personal data management and data ethics.