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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 DGN-ESRC-funded project Cooperativa Digital, where he works in partnership with Universidade Federal do Maranhão (Brazil) and Publicidade Jove (REAPP) to create a digital commons platform to enable NGOs in São Luís 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 Leapfrog project, where he delivered a series of co-design workshops to academics and public sector practitioners in the short project called Improve It. 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
Related documents
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, A Framework for Improving Knowledge Exchange Tools
1/10/2015 → 30/09/2019
Award Date: 20/07/2020
Keywords
- Design for sustainability
- Design for sustainable transitions
User-defined keywords
- co-design
- Creative engagement
- Digital interactions
- Design Tools
- Commons
Lancaster University Keywords
- FASS Keywords
- Future Cities Research Institute (FCRI)
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 5 Finished
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E3: Truly Ethical Digital Design (TEDD)
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Principal Investigator), Soares Neto, C. S. (Co-Investigator), Sacks, J. (Research Associate) & Abreu, M. (Other)
1/08/23 → 31/05/24
Project: Research
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IAA ESRC: Growing Together – a barometer to understanding and activate social wellbeing through micro-gardening.
Calvo, M. (Principal Investigator), Cruickshank, L. (Co-Investigator) & Fernandez Galabo, R. (Research Associate)
1/08/21 → 31/01/22
Project: Research
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My Mainway consultancy project - Phase 2
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Consultant)
25/06/21 → 30/09/21
Project: Consultancy
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Designing and running online workshops
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Consultant) & Perez Ojeda, D. (Team Member)
25/11/20 → 2/12/20
Project: Consultancy
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DisCO: A distributed co-design approach
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/20 → 7/05/21
Project: Research
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Challenging Capitalism through Design for Commonism
Galabo, R., 12/09/2023, Flourish By Design. Dunn, N., Cruickshank, L. & Coupe, G. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 43-46 4 p.Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
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Making it better together: a framework for improving creative engagement tools
Galabo, R. & Cruickshank, L., 31/10/2022, In: CoDesign. 18, 4, p. 503-525 23 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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A framework for infrastructuring commons creation
Sacks, J. & Galabo, R., 6/11/2022, [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes: Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2021). Bruyns, G. & Wei, H. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, p. 1016-1036 21 p. (IASDR: Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research; vol. 9).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Open AccessFile24 Downloads (Pure) -
Resilient Digital Technologies
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, Design and Covid-19: From Reaction to Resilience. Cooper, R. & Mullagh, L. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury AcademicResearch output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
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Shaping Social Design with communities
Fonseca Braga, M., Perez Ojeda, D., Owen, V., Zhang, L., Brewster, L., Galabo, R., Changede, S., Kwon, N. & Summers, S., 9/10/2023, Proceedings of the 10th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2023). IASDR, 18 p. 78Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Open AccessFile98 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
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Participatory Research with Marginalised Communities: Ethics, Design, and Co-production
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Speaker)
3/06/2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
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EAD Conference (Event)
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Editor)
12/08/2021 → 23/12/2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Digital Good Network Summit
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Speaker)
6/03/2025 → 7/03/2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
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Workshop para Mobilização de recursos
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Speaker)
31/07/2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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22nd European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Participant)
17/06/2024 → 18/06/2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Prizes
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3rd IPTV application challenge
Soares Neto, C. S. (Recipient) & Fernandez Galabo, R. (Recipient), 12/09/2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Datasets
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Cooperativa Digital: Creating a Community-Run Mobile App in Brazil, 2023
Fernandez Galabo, R. (Creator), UK Data Service, 1/08/2024
Dataset