Lígia Lopes is a Portuguese designer and design activist. An industrial design graduate with a PhD in Design from the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon, she is currently assistant professor at the Department of Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. She is a member of The Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture [ID+] group, in the HEAD - Health + Design Lab unit and belongs to the ADU Ambassadors group, Advanced Research Unit of ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna, Italy.

For the past few years, she has worked on participatory design approaches that place value on processes and people by actively involving less visible or marginalised groups. Her activist stance in design is expressed through a conscious choice of process and attention to the product cycle, to ensure that it is more human and transparent. Her personal project, CANHOTA, responds to the need for projects rooted in and sustained by design ethics that are committed to developing products, services and strategies through Conscious Design.

Links

• http://www.canhota.pt
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