Expert Design Talks

Meet LARA de SOUSA PENIN // Designing Services as Designing Work and Workers

Lara is an Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in NYC, where she currently co-leads the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design.
A former director of the Transdisciplinary Design graduate program, she is a
co-founder of the Parsons DESIS Lab. Lara’s work centers on service and strategic design, participatory design, and social justice, seeking to explore the agency of design to effect positive social change. Recent work includes the development of a design-led research tool for service designer-service worker solidarity and the development of a feminist framework to designing services. Lara is the author of An Introduction to Service Design. Designing the Invisible (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the editor of The Disobedience of Design, a Gui Bonsiepe Reader (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2021). Originally from São Paulo, Brazil where she graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, she has a PhD in Design from the Politecnico di Milano.

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