Susana Soares

Susana is a designer, researcher and lecturer. Her work often explores future technological implications for public engagement and awareness. This includes developing collaborative frameworks between design and other disciplines. Susana is Senior Design Lecturer Design at London South Bank University (LSBU). In addition, she has held research fellow positions at IMPACT! project, RCA and Materials Beliefs, based at Goldsmiths University of London. After completing a BA in Industrial Design from ESAD, Portugal she graduated at MA Design Interaction in Royal College of Art, London under the direction of Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. Her work has been published within design and scientific publications such as Wired, New Scientist and Nature, and exhibited within well-known institutions such as MoMA in New York, MOMAK in Kyoto, Science Gallery in Dublin, Southbank Centre and The Royal Institution in London. Susana’s work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York. Her projects include symbiotic relationships with other living beings such Bee’s and Am I attractive? along with a technologically driven post-nature perspective in projects such as Urpflanze, Pathogen Hunter and New organs of perception. Website: http://www.susanasoares.com/ London South Bank University website: https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/study/course-finder/product-design-bsc-hons