Tiina Männistö-Funk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiina Männistö-Funk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiina |
| FAMILY NAME | Männistö-Funk |
| SIGNATURE | MÄNNISTÖ-FUNK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7709-3642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Traffic boardgames and played mobilities
In this article, we examine ten traffic‐themed boardgames published in Finland between the 1950s and 1970s. We introduce our novel concept of played mobilities as an analytical category of imagined mobilities. The concept of played mobilities refers to the active and performative manners of imagining traffic within a framework suggested by any game but also to the potential ways a player can stretch and break a game’s established rules. Our study…
Afterword
The more mundane and ubiquitous objects are, the easier they are to overlook in cultural and political life. The bicycle has often suffered this fate of invisibility.1 With consistent and dedicated
Kids Vs CarsCourtyards as Contested Spaces of Inner-City Childhood in1970s Helsinki
Post-war urbanization and the rapid growth of traffic had a transformative effect on the courtyards in inner-city Helsinki. Although not designed for play, courtyards had served as spaces where children could spend time and meet. The increased presence of both moving and parked cars in the yards, coupled with the scarcity of playgrounds elsewhere in the inner city, sparked intense debates in Helsinki during the 1970s. At the same time, initiative…
Eriarvoisuuden ja tasa-arvoisuuden kaupunki
Voisiko paremman kaupungin rakentaa pullasta? Tätä kokeiltiin vuonna 1967, kun muotoilija Kaj Franckin Taideteollisessa oppilaitoksessa ohjaaman Yleisen sommittelun kurssin lopputyönä rakennettiin Helsingin Kallioon väliaikainen leikkikenttä. Kurssilaiset pystyttivät Toisella linjalla sijainneelle tyhjälle tontille kaikenlaista lapsia houkuttelevaa, muun muassa suuren pullaveistoksen. Unkarilaissyntyinen kuvanveistäjä Zoltan Popovits toteutti lei…
The struggle over pedestrians
This paper considers the negotiations around walking in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s as a symbolic struggle. Quickly changing urban environment and high traffic fatality numbers brought pedestrians into the focus of public discussions during this era. Two major groups making claims over pedestrians were the traffic safety organisation Talja and its successor Liikenneturva as well as the traffic policy association Enemmistö. Traffic safety actor…
What Kerbstones Do
In this article, kerbstones are analysed as historical actors that participated in the changes of urban space and street traffic during the hundred years between the 1880s and the 1980s. Using the approach of new materialism and a large photographic source material from the Finnish city Turku, the article provides a new perspective into the tremendous changes many cities went through during this period and proposes possibilities of including non-…
The 47th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, Icohtec's first digital meeting, July 15–17, 2020
The 47th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC's first digital meeting, July 15–17, 2020 Yoel Bergman, Florian Bettel, Maria Elvira Callapez, Donna J. Drucker, Francesco Gerali, Dick van Lente, Tiina Männistö-Funk, Stefan Poser, and Thomas Schuetz The theme of the 47th symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) was "A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis." Discu…
Puhetta koneista
Koneellisesti tuotettu puhe on sekä teknisesti että sosiaalisesti erityinen teknologian ominaisuus. Tässä artikkelissa esitetään, että puhuvia koneita on syytä tarkastella omana sosioteknisenä kategorianaan, koska ihmismäiseen puheeseen liittyy koneen ja käyttäjän suhteen näkökulmasta monia erityisiä kysymyksiä. Elottomia esineitä on saatu puhumaan esihistoriallisista ajoista lähtien erilaisten äänensiirtotekniikoiden avulla, 1700-luvulta lähtien…
Straßenverkehr und soziale Sichtbarkeit
Reviewed by: Straßenverkehr und soziale Sichtbarkeit: Das Massenmedium Straße in Chicago 1900–1930 by David Sittler Tiina Männistö-Funk (bio) Straßenverkehr und soziale Sichtbarkeit: Das Massenmedium Straße in Chicago 1900–1930 By David Sittler. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018. Pp. 393. An individual’s ability to use public spaces, based on aspects like race, class, gender, and age, is as topical an issue today as it was in early twentieth century Chica…
Invisible Bicycle
There is an important catch in the theme of this book and this chapter with in it. It is necessary to differentiate between the bicycle and the bicyclist, as one can be more invisible than the other. At present in the UK the bicycle remains largely invisible, but the cyclist does not. To illustrate this, we need go no further than the nearest city street. One sees many cars, but how many motorists? As almost all motor cars are now made fully encl…
Introduction
Walking is a neglected topic in the history of transport and mobility in cities. The four articles in this special section demonstrate the importance of travel on foot in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities in four different countries, and reveal the ways in which pedestrian mobility has persisted despite the development of a car-dominated society. Together they provide important new evidence on a neglected topic and hopefully pave the way f…
The gender of walking
This article focuses on the role of gender in walking by studying thousands of street photographs taken between 1890 and 1989 in the city of Turku. Analysis of the photographs presents female pedestrians as the most numerous and continuously large group on the urban streets and reveals gendered patterns and practices of walking. Furthermore, it showcases how female mobility patterns were ignored and harmed by the car-centred city planning and tra…
Stefan Poser, Glücksmaschinen und Maschinenglück
Claiming the Bicycle
Reviewed by: Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Sarah Hallenbeck Tiina Männistö-Funk (bio) Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. by Sarah Hallenbeck. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. Pp. 205. $35. Sarah Hallenbeck's book studies the ways in which female cyclists redefined and shaped the bicycle during the last two decades of the …
They Played it on Saturday Nights in a Barn.” Gramophone Practices and Self-Made Modernity in Finland from the 1920s to the 1940s
This article studies rural gramophone use in Finland from the 1920s to the 1940s, based on source material of written memories related to the long Nordic tradition of folklore surveys. The characteristic rurality of the Finnish pre-war and war-time society offers an opportunity to study the non-urban appropriation of modern technology and to approach rural modernity as locally produced on the one hand, but crucial to the societal and cultural mod…
The Crossroads of Technology and Tradition
This article analyzes the phenomenon of vernacular bicycles in the Finnish countryside and argues for the importance of geography in studies of the social construction of technology. As a predominantly agrarian country, Finland of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provides a viewpoint into bicycle history different from most existing historiography. By analyzing the geographical division of vernacular bicycles, comparing folklore …
The gender of walking
This article focuses on the role of gender in walking by studying thousands of street photographs taken between 1890 and 1989 in the city of Turku. Analysis of the photographs presents female pedestrians as the most numerous and continuously large group on the urban streets and reveals gendered patterns and practices of walking. Furthermore, it showcases how female mobility patterns were ignored and harmed by the car-centred city planning and tra…
The struggle over pedestrians
This paper considers the negotiations around walking in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s as a symbolic struggle. Quickly changing urban environment and high traffic fatality numbers brought pedestrians into the focus of public discussions during this era. Two major groups making claims over pedestrians were the traffic safety organisation Talja and its successor Liikenneturva as well as the traffic policy association Enemmistö. Traffic safety actor…
Introduction
Walking is a neglected topic in the history of transport and mobility in cities. The four articles in this special section demonstrate the importance of travel on foot in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities in four different countries, and reveal the ways in which pedestrian mobility has persisted despite the development of a car-dominated society. Together they provide important new evidence on a neglected topic and hopefully pave the way f…
The Crossroads of Technology and Tradition
This article analyzes the phenomenon of vernacular bicycles in the Finnish countryside and argues for the importance of geography in studies of the social construction of technology. As a predominantly agrarian country, Finland of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provides a viewpoint into bicycle history different from most existing historiography. By analyzing the geographical division of vernacular bicycles, comparing folklore …
They Played it on Saturday Nights in a Barn.” Gramophone Practices and Self-Made Modernity in Finland from the 1920s to the 1940s
This article studies rural gramophone use in Finland from the 1920s to the 1940s, based on source material of written memories related to the long Nordic tradition of folklore surveys. The characteristic rurality of the Finnish pre-war and war-time society offers an opportunity to study the non-urban appropriation of modern technology and to approach rural modernity as locally produced on the one hand, but crucial to the societal and cultural mod…
Claiming the Bicycle
Reviewed by: Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Sarah Hallenbeck Tiina Männistö-Funk (bio) Claiming the Bicycle: Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. by Sarah Hallenbeck. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. Pp. 205. $35. Sarah Hallenbeck's book studies the ways in which female cyclists redefined and shaped the bicycle during the last two decades of the …
Stefan Poser, Glücksmaschinen und Maschinenglück
Invisible Bicycle
There is an important catch in the theme of this book and this chapter with in it. It is necessary to differentiate between the bicycle and the bicyclist, as one can be more invisible than the other. At present in the UK the bicycle remains largely invisible, but the cyclist does not. To illustrate this, we need go no further than the nearest city street. One sees many cars, but how many motorists? As almost all motor cars are now made fully encl…
Introduction
Walking is a neglected topic in the history of transport and mobility in cities. The four articles in this special section demonstrate the importance of travel on foot in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities in four different countries, and reveal the ways in which pedestrian mobility has persisted despite the development of a car-dominated society. Together they provide important new evidence on a neglected topic and hopefully pave the way f…
The gender of walking
This article focuses on the role of gender in walking by studying thousands of street photographs taken between 1890 and 1989 in the city of Turku. Analysis of the photographs presents female pedestrians as the most numerous and continuously large group on the urban streets and reveals gendered patterns and practices of walking. Furthermore, it showcases how female mobility patterns were ignored and harmed by the car-centred city planning and tra…
Puhetta koneista
Koneellisesti tuotettu puhe on sekä teknisesti että sosiaalisesti erityinen teknologian ominaisuus. Tässä artikkelissa esitetään, että puhuvia koneita on syytä tarkastella omana sosioteknisenä kategorianaan, koska ihmismäiseen puheeseen liittyy koneen ja käyttäjän suhteen näkökulmasta monia erityisiä kysymyksiä. Elottomia esineitä on saatu puhumaan esihistoriallisista ajoista lähtien erilaisten äänensiirtotekniikoiden avulla, 1700-luvulta lähtien…
Straßenverkehr und soziale Sichtbarkeit
Reviewed by: Straßenverkehr und soziale Sichtbarkeit: Das Massenmedium Straße in Chicago 1900–1930 by David Sittler Tiina Männistö-Funk (bio) Straßenverkehr und soziale Sichtbarkeit: Das Massenmedium Straße in Chicago 1900–1930 By David Sittler. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018. Pp. 393. An individual’s ability to use public spaces, based on aspects like race, class, gender, and age, is as topical an issue today as it was in early twentieth century Chica…
What Kerbstones Do
In this article, kerbstones are analysed as historical actors that participated in the changes of urban space and street traffic during the hundred years between the 1880s and the 1980s. Using the approach of new materialism and a large photographic source material from the Finnish city Turku, the article provides a new perspective into the tremendous changes many cities went through during this period and proposes possibilities of including non-…
The 47th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, Icohtec's first digital meeting, July 15–17, 2020
The 47th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC's first digital meeting, July 15–17, 2020 Yoel Bergman, Florian Bettel, Maria Elvira Callapez, Donna J. Drucker, Francesco Gerali, Dick van Lente, Tiina Männistö-Funk, Stefan Poser, and Thomas Schuetz The theme of the 47th symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) was "A History of Technology for an Age of Crisis." Discu…
The struggle over pedestrians
This paper considers the negotiations around walking in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s as a symbolic struggle. Quickly changing urban environment and high traffic fatality numbers brought pedestrians into the focus of public discussions during this era. Two major groups making claims over pedestrians were the traffic safety organisation Talja and its successor Liikenneturva as well as the traffic policy association Enemmistö. Traffic safety actor…
Eriarvoisuuden ja tasa-arvoisuuden kaupunki
Voisiko paremman kaupungin rakentaa pullasta? Tätä kokeiltiin vuonna 1967, kun muotoilija Kaj Franckin Taideteollisessa oppilaitoksessa ohjaaman Yleisen sommittelun kurssin lopputyönä rakennettiin Helsingin Kallioon väliaikainen leikkikenttä. Kurssilaiset pystyttivät Toisella linjalla sijainneelle tyhjälle tontille kaikenlaista lapsia houkuttelevaa, muun muassa suuren pullaveistoksen. Unkarilaissyntyinen kuvanveistäjä Zoltan Popovits toteutti lei…
Traffic boardgames and played mobilities
In this article, we examine ten traffic‐themed boardgames published in Finland between the 1950s and 1970s. We introduce our novel concept of played mobilities as an analytical category of imagined mobilities. The concept of played mobilities refers to the active and performative manners of imagining traffic within a framework suggested by any game but also to the potential ways a player can stretch and break a game’s established rules. Our study…
Afterword
The more mundane and ubiquitous objects are, the easier they are to overlook in cultural and political life. The bicycle has often suffered this fate of invisibility.1 With consistent and dedicated
Kids Vs CarsCourtyards as Contested Spaces of Inner-City Childhood in1970s Helsinki
Post-war urbanization and the rapid growth of traffic had a transformative effect on the courtyards in inner-city Helsinki. Although not designed for play, courtyards had served as spaces where children could spend time and meet. The increased presence of both moving and parked cars in the yards, coupled with the scarcity of playgrounds elsewhere in the inner city, sparked intense debates in Helsinki during the 1970s. At the same time, initiative…
Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)