About

I am Professor in Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, United Kingdom, since Sept 2020. I am also, since 2016, an editor of the leading scholarly journal Design Issues. Previously, in Finland, I was a professor and head of education in the Department of Design at Aalto University and, prior to that, I worked at Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the national doctoral school Designfakulteten, and the Interactive Institute in Sweden. A designer and architect by training, my PhD is in interaction design. I have led, published, and exhibited widely through major interdisciplinary and international practice-based design research projects, most recently in social and sustainable design, design activism and design for policy. I specialize in participatory, critical and politically engaged design practices, as well as “research through design” and feminist epistemologies.

As documentation, the perspective in this website is retrospective. I'm also in the progress of updating this website, so some sections are outdated. For current and future directions, watch this space or contact me!

ramiamaze[at]gmail[dot]com
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