Designing for social change
& research-based solutions
Design research, ux research, and social design
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Co-Design for Public Spaces
Transforming Communities through collaborative Design to democratize the decision making process, promote social interaction, and to reflect shared values.
Empowering civic engagement in public spaces
An intervention in public space in a densely built-up neighborhood in Munich with few green spaces and seating areas, inspired by the Superblocks in Barcelona, and driven by co-design workshops involving various stakeholders, citizens, and neighbors for systemic change towards climate-resilient, and more liveable cities.
Collaboration with TU Munich and EIT Urban Mobility → Project Website
Citizen Science against noise pollution
The project promotes spaces for citizen participation in environments with conflicting uses and improves co-existence by involving different actors in co-creation of an intervention to make visible the various problems derived from noise pollution on the Plaça de la Virreina in Grácia, Barcelona.
Collaboration with Institute of Advanced Architecture de Calalunya and Lichen Social Innovation Barcelona → Project Website
"Off-grid" Energy-Communities
A digital platfrom and an intervention in public space visualizes the relationship between availability and consumption of regenerative energy for enabiling location-dependent groups, so-called energy communities, to adjust their consumption at a local level.
Collaboration with FabLab Barcelona → Project Website
Design Research for Digital Healthcare
Creating accessible, user-centered products
Inclusive Digital Design for Human Aging
Enabling seniors by digital accessibility to solve difficulties in their everyday lives independently and overcoming age-related limitations.
Collaboration with frog Design
Universal Design Award Winner during Munich Creative Business Week → Universal Design Award
Research on 5 methods for inclusive digital products
→ Talk at IXDA 2023 in Zurich
→ Article on frogVoices / UXmag
Remote Music Therapy for Stroke Patients
Stroke therapy is a long and repetetive recovery process and symptoms are considered as chronic within only six months. Music therapy is proven to be effective for enhancing motor control, as it stimulates the same brain cortex responsible for movement.
The music therapy app ReSonate for remote rehabilitation makes therapy more accessible, allows patients to practice from home, and an exercises are adapted by an AI model.
Collaboration with Hospital del Mar, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, and MTG Barcelona
→ Social Impact Award
Smart plant care
elho’s smart pebble provides real-time data on environmental factors, empowers users to make precise, data-driven decisions about watering, lighting, and nutrients.
It connects plant owners on an emotional level with their plants and helps them make more tailored and more sustainable care decisions.
Collaboration with FROLIC Studio Amsterdam for elho → Project Website
Facilitating fantasy
Creativity workshops and design education
Equal opportunities in the creative industry
"ReDi School of Digital Integration" is a non-profit educational insti-tution that provides free and equal access to digital education. Hy-brid teaching formats and project-based learning enhance valuable digital skills, improve career opportunities, and form a professional network to foster equal opportunities for entry into technological and creative professions.
Design teacher at ReDi School for Digital Integration → ReDi Website
Intercultural Innovation in Ghana
Impact Week is a two-fold educational program, that consists of one week design thinking training for local, and international experts, and a one week practical application,
following a co-design approach with the community of Busua, Ghana, and the local institutions UP development / Obrobibini Peace Complex (OPC).
Project Manager at Impact Week Ghana → Project Website
