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Vinícius Juliani Pereira

design researcher, M.Sc, PhD researcher

Picture of Vinicius during a workshop.

​​I’m currently a PhD researcher at the University of East Anglia, funded by a Horizon 2020 European Commission grant, under the program Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, as an Early-Stage Researcher in the GECKO project. I’m also a postgraduate member of the 3S (Science, Society and Sustainability) research group and an associate student at ARIES Doctoral Training Partnership.

I have a Master of Science degree, with a dissertation on Artificial Intelligence and design methods, at the University of Sao Paulo (2018-2020), where I have contributed to the research group Representation: Imaginary and Technology (RITe). RITe is a partner of the Centre de Recherches Internationales sur L'Imaginaire (CRI2i), and in my time with them, I co-funded the study group Experimental Reveries and Poietic Imagination (DEPi). My Bachelor's degree is in Architecture and Urban Design, at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2012-2016), with an initiation to academic research at the research group Theory and Project in the Digital Era (TPED). I have experience in digital fabrication, with an internship in the municipal network of FabLab Livre SP (2015) laboratories. Besides, I've worked as a digital fabrication technician at PortoFabLab, (2016-2019) – an atelier dedicated to art research and production using digital manufacturing means. I was a temporary lecturer of Digital Manufacturing and New Technologies for the bachelor's degree in Industrial Design and Fashion Design, at Instituto Europeo di Design/SP (2019). Between 2018 and 2021, I managed and worked as a designer at Elan, a multidisciplinary design initiative developing works that explore the potential of the intersection between digital technologies, graphic, and industrial design.

We need to transform our relationship with design, technology, and nature.

The world faces the effects of a climate emergency sponsored by the Global Minority’s desire to consume and accumulate. There has been a historical silence from creative industries on designers' role in infrastructure such unsustainable ways of living. Emergent technologies have only accelerated the urgency to act. As a designer and researcher, I’m interested in supporting people’s autonomy over digital technologies, using participatory practices to democratise design, while raising awareness through visual methodologies.

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