Raisa Kilpeläinen is an artist-researcher in performance design, specialising in scenographics, stage and lighting design, theatre and drama research and university pedagogy. Kilpeläinen works as a Lecturer in Performance Design at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. As a researcher, she explores changes in performance designers’ work and art and possible futures and sustainability in performance design. As an artist, she specialises in dramaturgy, light, space, site, perceptions, experiencing, audiences, performative installations, performance concepts, collective creation and sustainability. Kilpeläinen is a founding member of Art Collective KOKIMO, founded in 2010.