Leão lives to blow stuff up and bring design to the limit. The Co-founder of VIVA Lab - One of the most promising Digital Fabrication Labs in the city of Porto specialized in the areas of Education, Design and Social Innovation. Assistant Professor at the University of Porto in the Master of Industrial & Product Design. Researcher at ID+ DESIS Lab in the development of Design projects with environmental impact and Social Innovation. Winner of the Core77 Design Award, Ricardo Jorge Merit Award, Inventables Design Award and Pre-finalist of the Distributed Design Award.The way we design and make the products of the future shall reflect our community and the impact we create. Nowadays, through Digital Fabrication and sharing of knowledge via Open Design we can make (almost) anything! Using VIVA Lab & Maker Island as platforms for learning and innovation: a place to play, to create, to learn, to mentor, to invent.I'm seeking to explore approaches to design that are more collaborative and distributed as a means to create better products built from a bottom up approach, simultaneously creating beautiful solutions to everyday problems.