Professor Ramia Mazé
Title
Professor of Design for Social Innovation & Sustainability
College
London College of Communication
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Biography
Ramia Mazé started in autumn 2020 as Professor in Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, United Kingdom. She has been an editor of the leading scholarly journal Design Issues since 2016. Previously, in Finland, she was a professor and head of education in the Department of Design at Aalto University and, prior to that, she worked at Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the national doctoral school Designfakulteten, and the Interactive Institute in Sweden. A designer and architect by training, her PhD is in interaction design. She has led, published, and exhibited widely through major interdisciplinary and international practice-based design research projects, most recently in social and sustainable design, design activism and design for policy. She specialises in participatory, critical and politically engaged design practices, as well as “research through design” and feminist epistemologies.Below are selected research and teaching activities from the last 4 years - see the CV, ORCHID and Portfolio links for the full picture.
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Research Outputs
Article
- Mazé R. Politics of Designing Visions of the Future (2019)
- Hirscher A-L, Mazé R. Stuff Matters in Participation: Infrastructuring a co-sewing cafe (2019)
Book
- Mazé R, Redström J. Schwierige Formen (2018)
Conference, Symposium or Workshop item
- Mazé R. Control or Care? Politics of designing visions of the future (2019)
- Andersson C, Mazé R, Isaksson A. Who cares about those who care? Design and technologies of power in Swedish elder care (2019)
- Hernberg H, Mazé R. Agonistic Temporary Space: Reflections on ‘Agonistic Space’ across Participatory Design and Temporary Use (2018)
- Mazé R. Bookmaking as Critical and Feminist Practice of Design (2018)
- Mazé R. Feminist Modes and Politics of Design Practice (2018)
- Andersson C, Mazé R, Isaksson A, Ehrnberger K, Börjesson E. Materializing “Ruling Relations”: A case of gender, power and elder care in Sweden (2017)
- Hernberg H, Mazé R. Architect/Designer as “Urban Agent”: A case of mediating temporary use in cities (2017)
- Hirscher A-L, Mazé R. Negotiating Values in Design: A case of establishing and developing a co-sewing café (2017)
Thesis
Teaching
Current research students
- Camilla Andersson, Materializing “Ruling Relations”: Technologies of power In norm-critical and speculative design (Joint supervisor)
- Pablo Calderón Salazar, Walking the Word of Design: Explorations and reflections of a decolonial-interventionist practice (Advisor)
- Hella Hernberg, Roles in the Social Mediation of 'Temporary Use' (Joint supervisor)
- Helena Sandman, Empathy Matters: Enhancing proximity between actors to reach depth in architectural design for development (Joint supervisor)
Past research students
- Anja-Lisa Hirscher, When Skillful Participation Becomes Design: Making clothes together (Joint supervisor)
- Luiza Prado de Oliveira Martins, Technoecologies of Birth Control: Biopolitics by Design (Advisor)
- Kakee Scott, Co-Creating Alternative Economic Practices Through Design (Joint supervisor)