Gemma Teal, Tara French
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Gemma Teal and Tara French are frequent collaborators based at the Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art (GSA).
Gemma is a design researcher specializing in creative engagement, participatory design and visual methods within health and wellbeing contexts. Applying these approaches to reimagine new forms of support for self-management of long-term health conditions, her projects have focused on experiences of diagnosis and living with diabetes, new models of care for people living with multimorbidity, and the empowering potential of person- owned data. In the wider context of Public Health, she explores how participatory design enables and integrates multidisciplinary research collaborations to develop evidence-based interventions. She is co-Investigator on a number of Global Public Health Partnership projects aimed at developing community resilience interventions to prevent and respond to road traffic accidents in Malawi.
Tara is a design psychologist and interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in facilitating transdisciplinary collaborations in the context of care and wellbeing. Her work combines multi-method and creative forms of engagement to meaningfully involve diverse groups of stakeholders in the design process, from people with lived experience to government policy makers. Tara's research focuses on the role of design in enabling a culture of innovation and resilience in complex contexts. Her recent projects have involved large scale co-design in the context of transitions in palliative care and exploring design-led, system-wide innovation in the context of health and social care integration. Tara is interested in how design can foster spaces for empathic exploration and resilience when exploring 'taboo' or sensitive subjects.
Currently on leave of absence from GSA, Tara is exploring how participatory and human rights-based approaches can support transformation in the independent social care sector, having taken up a post with the representative body Scottish Care.
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P. Marques, M. Maass
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M. Ramírez-Galleguillos, A. Coşkun
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C. Grisales, L. Arosa, F. Fajardo, F. León, G. Ramírez, L. Espitia, C. Ayala, J. Camacho, L. Villamil, M. Sánchez
Full PapersThe authors of this article have found themselves in community work from design, pedagogy, participatory planning and doing for better futures. On this occasion they met to reflect on a PD experience with communities in the Colombian Pacific.
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M. Eriksen, P. Hillgren, A. Seravalli
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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.
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M. Martinez-Gonzalez
Full PapersMercedes 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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R. Noronha, C. Aboud, R. Portela
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B. Szaniecki, B. Serpa, F. Secioso, L. Ventura, M. Costard, P. Biz, T. Tibola
Full PapersWe are a group of researchers do Laboratory of Design and Anthropology (LaDA), Linked to Higher School of Industrial Development of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (ESDI/UERJ). O LaDA investigates alternative ways for the practice of project em design, emphasizing the social, public and political questões. With a focus on “participatory” and “collaborative” approaches, design is understood as a social science, investing in dialogue with the other social sciences, mainly anthropology, supporting the fields of Design Anthropology and Codesign.
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M. Duque-Hurtado
Full PapersResearch Fellow at the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, and full-time member at the Department of Design at Monash University. As a design researcher, my work sits at the intersection of Everyday Design, Participatory and Design Anthropology.
Colombian designer and researcher, living in Australia. Interested in daily design practices for revaluation and well-being. Working with issues of reuse, health and technology.
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