- Service // Product // Communication // ResearchDesign Innovation
- recent projectsAleksandra's most recent projects incorporate user-centered methods to create innovative, socially responsible services and products.TactiliseIndividual Master Project // Service Design
Glasgow School of ArtTactilise is an inclusive platform which empowers the visually impaired, their teachers and guardians to create and share interactive audio-tactile content using rapid prototyping technology and augmented reality.Project in cooperation with Sense Scotland, Visibility and the Royal National Institute of Blind People.To know more:- visit Tactilise Website.
- see more in Project Book.
- view project Summary Poster.
- see Design Method Cards.
TechnopoliticsGroup Project // Design Innovation
Glasgow School of Art // Toshiba // Chiba UniveristyInvestigating how emerging M2M, networked objects and IoT technologies can increase political engagement between people and places within the civic sphere. Our design provides networks that enable grassroots action within communities.Our homes see increasing automation currently known as "domotics". We created a future scenario of "comotics" - a system built on home domotic infrastructure which allows coordination of resource usage and community network-building within neighbourhood hubs via home automation technology. Comotics promotes wellbeing and civic empowerment for people living in metropolitan areas.- See more in Project Book (group work).
- Read my Personal Project Journal (individual reflective publication).
Ticket ReTurnIndividual Project // Service Design
Glasgow School of ArtTicket Re Turn service proposal was born out of the insights gathered throughout the Glasgow Film Festival ticketing system research. It is a service functioning outside of the festival structure, facilitating self-organisation of the visitors who wish to return their tickets or buy a last-minute ticket for a popular event.- See the design process on My Service Design Blog.
The Folks' CafeGroup project // Service Design
Glasgow School of ArtThe Folks' Cafe' is a sustainable creative collective in Glasgow which enables families to form mutually beneficial relationships.It is based on a sustainable social enterprise model to create a physical space allowing families to interact with each other and provide rotational, free childcare services.Project in cooperation with Scottish Government.- See my Personal Project Journal.
User Manual
and Interface - AboutEducationAleksandra is a recent graduate of Master in Design Innovation and Service Design at the Glasgow School of Art.She holds a bachelor degree from University College London and Politecnico di Milano (BA Italian and Design).
Passion
She is passionate about design and technology, especially rapid prototyping, and has experience as a designer in FABtotum, one of the most crowd-funded European start-ups at the time.Master ProjectAleksandra’s master project Tactilise is a concept of an inclusive platform which enables the visually impaired, their teachers and guardians to create and share interactive audio-tactile content using rapid prototyping technology and augmented reality.
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