Mariana Salgado Email & Phone Number

I am a senior designer and a researcher working in service and interaction design. I produce and host Diseño y diáspora, a podcast on design for social change (in Spanish, Portuguese and English). The podcast has now 570 episodes published and it is the most listened design podcast in latinoamerica with 6000 listeners monthly. I work in ICOS ERIC as service designer contributing to the EU project IRISCC. Previously, I have worked in Inland design, an innovation and design lab in the Ministry of the Interior, Finland. Inland used to be part of the Finnish Immigration Service where I worked for two and a half years, leading it. I have worked in cultural heritage and global health projects always under a participatory framework. My partners varied from project to project but the setting is always multi and transcultural and disciplinary. I have worked in collaboration with different communities such as vulnerable groups of immigrants, professionals in memory organizations, global health experts, and rural citizens in developing countries. As part of my doctoral dissertation, I have been involved in co-designing participation in museums through the use of interactive pieces. The book can be found on-line: "Designing for an Open Museum. An Exploration of Content Creation and Sharing through Interactive Pieces". I got a grant to go to Argentina and I was working as a visiting researcher in LINKS, a civil association for the study and promotion of Information Society. From 2011-2013 I worked as Interaction Design Lecturer in Laurea University of Applied Sciences. I was the Head of the Master in Business Administration in User-Centered Design. From 2013-2016 I had a position as a Postdoctoral researcher in Arki research group in the Department of Media, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University. I have worked in Scope as Senior Design Researcher in global health and learn on the possibilities of participatory design practices in development (2016). I co-founded Suo&Co, a Design & Research studio with 3 other partners (2017)Specialties: participatory design, service design, co-design, user research, new media, research and development, accessibility, global health, human-centered design, interaction design, and development.

Listed skills include User Centered Design, User Experience, Interaction Design, Design Thinking, and 46 others.