Lia Krucken is a Design and Visual Arts professor and conducts workshops and collaborative design practices, with a focus on valuing local resources and cultures. She has a post-doctorate in Design, from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (2011), and in Contemporary Art, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2019). She collaborates with universities and research institutions in the areas of art and design in Brazil, Portugal, Italy and Germany, since 2003. She also integrates “Insurgências Collective”, in Berlin, which proposes socially engaged projects. She is a visiting professor at the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil with support from PNPD-CAPES.

Anna is Professor of Design in the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano. PhD in Design, her research focuses on service and strategic design for sustainability to foster social innovation, participation and place development. She has been co-founder of the POLIMI-DESIS Lab, the Milan based research laboratory of the DESIS-Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Network. With specific expertise in co-design methods and tools, she originated the concept of community-centred design and works transversally on new entrepreneurship, public services and responsible research and innovation. Since 2016 she is the head of the international Master of Science in Product Service System Design, at the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano.

Rui Marcelino holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (IST), a Master’s degree in Transport Design from Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, and a PhD in Design from the Faculty of Architecture of Technical University of Lisbon (FAUTL). Marcelino teaches Design Project in the Master’s degree in Product Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon and is the Coordinator of that same course. Professionally, after a stint at Centro Stile Alfa Romeo, he founded Almadesign in 1997, which is dedicated to Transports, Product and Interiors Design. With Almadesign, Marcelino received the National Design Award in 1999 and 2009, the Good Design Award in 2009, 2013 and 2015, an honourable mention in the DME Awards 2009, the Green Good Design Award 2010, the Crystal Cabin Award 2012, the Daciano da Costa Award 2015, and others.

Full Professor in Design, Lisbon School of Architecture (FA_ULisboa); PhD and Master by the University of Salford, in Built Environment, and PhD by the Technical University of Lisbon, in Architecture, specialty in Visual Communication; Post-doctorate from Salford University in Visual Communication Design, Inclusive Design and Colour; Aggregation in Design. President of CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, since 2009. Coordinator of the PhD degree in Design at FA_ULisboa since 2006. Coordinator and member of the FCT panel to award PhD grants in Design, Architecture and Urbanism, since 2008; international evaluator of CnPq, Brazil, for international research projects; regular participation in national and international universities, area of Design and Research; member of Scientific Commissions of international scientific journals; coordination and participation in research projects; regular publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, several book chapters and three books.