Chiara Del Gaudio
Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Design
School of Industrial Design
Clusters:
Gender issues
Ottawa, Ontario
chiaradelgaudio@cunet.carleton.ca
Office:
(613) 520-2600 ext. 5671
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Del Gaudio is a designer, researcher, and instructor in design. Her education and practice, teaching, and research experience bring elements from strategic and participatory design, together with a critical studies in design perspective, and knowledge on the design of processes, systems, services...
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Bio/Research
Del Gaudio is a designer, researcher, and instructor in design. Her education and practice, teaching, and research experience bring elements from strategic and participatory design, together with a critical studies in design perspective, and knowledge on the design of processes, systems, services and products. After working as a product and service designer, her design practice has mainly focused on design’s social and political dimensions in projects at the intersection between the university and local communities.
She has been working on applied design research projects addressing more democratic, inclusive and sustainable urban contexts, design processes and outcomes. Since 2014, she has also worked as a strategic consultant for small service and innovation enterprises in Brazil and, more recently, in Canada.
Del Gaudio’s main research and practice interests are design as a political process, participatory and collaborative design approaches, strategic design for social innovation, and power and conflict in design processes. Within this framework, her research mainly focuses on designers’ contribution towards more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable societies.
Specifically, she seeks to explore how designers can promote the conditions for them to happen and design processes for self-determination. In this regard, she researches: how power plays out in the design process, dynamics of oppression and resistance by design; how design can prevent dynamics of discrimination, exclusion, and marginalization; the issues inherent to ‘dominant design’ knowledge; and how to evolve the existing participatory and strategic design practice through the concepts of tactics, devices, and strategies, and the theories of complexity.
Moreover, she has been researching the limits, challenges, and risks related to collaborative and participatory approaches when applied in society, and mainly in conflict-affected and fragile urban areas; and the necessary conditions for this kind of design practice. She founded and she leads the Urban Imaginaries Lab (www.urbanimaginarieslab.com). She is also an active member of the design research community at the national and international levels.
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She has been working on applied design research projects addressing more democratic, inclusive and sustainable urban contexts, design processes and outcomes. Since 2014, she has also worked as a strategic consultant for small service and innovation enterprises in Brazil and, more recently, in Canada.
Del Gaudio’s main research and practice interests are design as a political process, participatory and collaborative design approaches, strategic design for social innovation, and power and conflict in design processes. Within this framework, her research mainly focuses on designers’ contribution towards more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable societies.
Specifically, she seeks to explore how designers can promote the conditions for them to happen and design processes for self-determination. In this regard, she researches: how power plays out in the design process, dynamics of oppression and resistance by design; how design can prevent dynamics of discrimination, exclusion, and marginalization; the issues inherent to ‘dominant design’ knowledge; and how to evolve the existing participatory and strategic design practice through the concepts of tactics, devices, and strategies, and the theories of complexity.
Moreover, she has been researching the limits, challenges, and risks related to collaborative and participatory approaches when applied in society, and mainly in conflict-affected and fragile urban areas; and the necessary conditions for this kind of design practice. She founded and she leads the Urban Imaginaries Lab (www.urbanimaginarieslab.com). She is also an active member of the design research community at the national and international levels.
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