Driven by creativity and entrepreneurship, Serena Cangiano instigates and delivers research and industry projects at the intersection among design, technology and making.Serena Cangiano works at SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Lugano) as researcher and Head of FabLab SUPSI, the laboratory dedicated to digital fabrication and open innovation, and coordinator of MAS in Interaction Design, an international curriculum focusing on design and prototyping of digital experiences.During the last ten years, she has been designing, teaching and coordinating workshops and projects in collaboration with an international network of interaction designers, creative coders and (change)makers. From digital social innovation to tech education, she carried out applied projects involving the development of interactive products, platforms and innovative processes through [open] design methods.Since 2015 she co-leads the project Re-programmed art: an open manifesto and she co-curates public events and exhibitions on themes at the convergence of coding and design such as the exhibition Codici Visivi-New Tendencies in Algorithmic Graphic and Processing Community Day (Turin, 2019).In 2015, She completed a doctoral research at Iuav in Venice on open hardware and design practices. Products as Platforms is the framework and the workshop that she developed as one of the research outcomes.In 2017, She was awarded the ETH Zürich exchange grant to collaborate with Motoelastico Architectural studio and IDAS International Design School on the first Seoul Architecture Biennale.She has been collaborating with Swiss and international organizations, such as the Educreators Foundation, WeMake Makerspace, TODO media&interaction design and as business coach at Creative Hub CH. She co-edited “Open Technologies'', the issue n. 30 of Progetto Grafico, the Italian magazine on graphic design; the book “Rebelling with Care”. My last publication is included in the book “The Critical Makers Reader - (Un)Learning Technologies". She gave workshops and public talks at events such as LIFT Conference Geneva, HEK Basel, LIMA Platform for Media Art Amsterdam, ISEA HK, Danish Design Center, FHNW Institute of Integrative Media.Together with Leyla Tawfik, She is co-founder of the project Ethafa, a kit for teaching programming and electronics to kids through playful stories (supported by Gebert Rüf Stiftung).When not traveling, She enjoys her time swimming at the Lugano lake.