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We are three participatory design researchers working across the Öresund region between Denmark and Southern Sweden in Scandinavia. We have all been part of Malmö Living Labs at Malmö University (http://medea.mah.se/malmo-living-labs/). Here we worked together for quite a long time on questions of participation, design and (social) change primarily with focus on the public sector in the contexts of Region Skåne and the City of Malmö.
We work together on the Grassroots Radio project which seeks to lower the barriers for communities to have a community information platform/community radio through innovative low cost low tech solutions.
Mercedes Martínez is an industrial designer (UAM Xochimilco, Mexico), a Master in Computer Art (Thames Valley University, UK) and a PhD in Anthropology (UNAM, Mexico).
She is a full-time professor of the Bachelor of Art and Design at the ENES, Morelia unit, a school that belongs to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In addition, he is part of the academic body of the master's degree in Anthropology and is co-responsible for the Image Laboratory at the same institution.
His interests in participatory design are focused on the search to find other ways of making and relating to artisans and designers in Mexico. For more than ten years he has been collaborating with rural-indigenous communities in projects that combine anthropology and design.
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We are a group of designers and PhD researchers working in the Laboratory of Design and Anthropology of the School of Industrial Design, at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Coming from different regions of Brazil, our research converges on the understanding that design can be an important political device, especially in the struggles for fundamental rights in Brazil.
All authors are part of the institute human-computer media at the University of Wuerzburg. They have varying backgrounds ranging from psychology to human-computer-interaction to media communications.