Dr Rosendy Fernandez Galabo

Senior Research Associate: Design Innovation for Global Equity and Digital Futures

Profile

Driven by a passion for global equity, he is a design researcher specialising in co-designing inclusive tools and platforms that empower communities through participation and collaboration in decision-making processes in projects, programmes and policies that affect their lives.

He explores the intersection of co-design, digital commons, digital equity, and online engagement to empower communities, particularly in the Global South, to create equitable futures. His research vision involves co-designing inclusive tools and platforms that facilitate collaboration with local, national, and international communities and empower them to address a range of global challenges. He employs a range of co-design methods, including participatory workshops, creative facilitation, digital tools, and blended approaches, to ensure inclusivity and engagement.

He is the PI for the , where he works in partnership with Universidade Federal do Maranh?o (Brazil) and Publicidade Jove (REAPP) to create a digital commons platform to enable NGOs in S?o Lu¨ªs to have control over the management of a mobile app called Reapp through an equitable commons design approach.

He previously conducted his PhD research as part of the , where he delivered a series of co-design workshops to academics and public sector practitioners in the short project called In these workshops, participants, as experts in their own field, co-designed improvements of tools and evaluated which suggestions led to the transformation of their engagement practices.

His current research interest focuses on design for global equity, digital futures, community-led design and governance

Selected Publications


Galabo, R. 12/09/2023 In: Flourish By Design. London : Routledge p. 43-46. 4 p. ISBN: 9781032507682. Electronic ISBN: 9781032507651.
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Galabo, R., Cruickshank, L. 31/10/2022 In: CoDesign. 18, 4, p. 503-525. 23 p.
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Sacks, J., Galabo, R. 6/11/2022
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Jacobs, N., Mason, Z., Perez Ojeda, D., Galabo, R., Green, D.P., Lindley, J., Craigon, P.J., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Wagner, H.G. 8/02/2024 In: Design and Covid-19. London : Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 1350266728, 9781350266711, 9781350266728. Electronic ISBN: 9781350266735, 9781350266742.
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Fonseca Braga, M., Perez Ojeda, D., Owen, V., Zhang, L., Brewster, L., Galabo, R., Changede, S., Kwon, N., Summers, S. 9/10/2023
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01/08/2023 → 31/05/2024
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01/08/2021 → 31/01/2022
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25/06/2021 → 30/09/2021
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25/11/2020 → 02/12/2020
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01/04/2020 → 07/05/2021
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Prize (including medals and awards)

  • Social Design