Dr. Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen conducts her research at the Department of Builiding Environments at the Aalborg University. She specializes in economic geography of human interactions to the locational specific characteristics in urban, rural, peripheral, cross-border, and spatio-temporal functional localities, their development, planning, policy, and economic growth. Last couple of years she has been exploring collective intelligence methods in the human geography discipline, and how collective knowledge and group thinking can impact the development of different types of localities. She believes that the application of the collective intelligence methods can enhance bottom-up decision-making processes, planning and participation, and become a crucial part of normality in the era of digitalization and AI.