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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 es diseñadora industrial (UAM Xochimilco, México), maestra en Arte por Computadora (Thames Valley University, UK) y doctora en Antropología (UNAM, México).
Es profesora tiempo completo de la licenciatura en Arte y Diseño de la ENES, unidad Morelia, escuela que pertenece a la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Además, forma parte del cuerpo académico de la maestría en Antropología y es corresponsable del Laboratorio de la Imagen en la misma institución.
Sus intereses en el diseño participativo se centran en la búsqueda por encontrar otras maneras de hacer y de relacionarnos artesanos y diseñadores en México. Desde hace más diez años colabora con comunidades rurales – indígenas en proyectos que conjuntan la antropología y el diseño.
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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.