HUMan-AI Interaction and Innovation Nexus (HUMAIN), Research Council of Finland, 2026-2028

Co-creativity in the Era of AI (LuotAI), Kone foundation, 2020-2024

Second Machine Age Knowledge Co-Creation Processes in Space and Time, Research Council of Finland, 2018-2023

• Anis, T., Kumpulainen, S. and Hautala, J., 2025. New ICTs are redefining concepts of social sustainability and information ecologies. In Americas Conference on Information Systems (pp. 4392-4401). Association for Information Systems.
• Mäntyoja, M. & Hautala, J. (2025). Possibilities and limitations of learning in Zoom, on campus, and in VR – students’ experiences of hybrid learning spaces. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
• Hautala, J. (2024). Reviewing research on regional development in the AI era—new there (s), new actors, and an old call “from cluster to process”. Fennia, 202(2).
• Hautala, J., & Ahlqvist, T. (2024). Integrating futures imaginaries, expectations and anticipatory practices: practitioners of artificial intelligence between now and future. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 36(9), 2100-2112.
• Wingström, R., Hautala, J., & Lundman, R. (2024). Redefining creativity in the era of AI? Perspectives of computer scientists and new media artists. Creativity Research Journal, 36(2), 177-193.
• Nordström, P., Lundman, R., & Hautala, J. (2023). Evolving coagency between artists and AI in the spatial cocreative process of artmaking. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(9), 2203-2218.
• Hautala, J., & Heino, H. (2023). Spectrum of AI futures imaginaries by AI practitioners in Finland and Singapore: the unimagined speed of AI progress. Futures, 153, 103247.
• Hautala, J., & Jauhiainen, J.S. (2023). Co-creating Knowledge with Robots: System, Synthesis, and Symbiosis. Journal of Knowledge Economy 14, 1467–1487. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-022-00968-1
• Hautala, J., & Ahlqvist T. (2022). Integrating futures imaginaries, expectations and anticipatory practices: practitioners of artificial intelligence between now and future, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2022.2130041
• Wingström, R., Hautala, J., & Lundman, R. (2022). Redefining Creativity in the Era of AI? Perspectives of Computer Scientists and New Media Artists, Creativity Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2022.2107850
• Hautala, J. (2021). Can robots possess knowledge? Rethinking the DIK(W) pyramid through the lens of employees of an automotive factory. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8(212), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00893-9
• Heino, H., & Hautala. J. (2021). Mobile futures knowledge: From research policy to research and public policy? Geoforum 118: 83–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.12.007
• Hautala, J., & Schmidt, S. (2019). Learning across distances: An international collaborative learning project between Berlin and Turku. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 43(2): 181–200. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2019.1599331
• Hautala, J. (2018). Now together, next apart: Knowledge creation processes through repeated geographical dispersion. Geografiska Annaler: Human Geography 100(3): 220–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2017.1375383
• Lundman, R., & Nordström, P. (2023). Creative geographies in the age of AI: Co-creative spatiality and the emerging techno-material relations between artists and artificial intelligence https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12608

• Co-organizing the international IGU-CDES 2026 conference in Turku, Finland.
• Organizing two sessions on the theme ”Geographies of knowledge and innovations in the restless era of emerging technologies” at the Nordic Geographers Meeting 2026, Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Organizing a session at the 2025 Vaasa Future Festival in collaboration with the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health about VR health and safety training.