Dr Rosendy Fernandez Galabo
Research AssociateProfile
Dr Rosendy Galabo is a Research Associate for the Beyond Imagination project at ImaginationLancaster. His research focuses on developing equitable ways of living and working together by creating physical, digital, and institutional infrastructures that enable communities to collectively transform their current situations into more sustainable ones through co-design.
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 sustainable transitions, new distributed co-design approaches, digital engagement
Selected Publications
A framework for improving knowledge exchange tools
Galabo, R. 2020 Lancaster University. 371 p.
Doctoral Thesis
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.
Journal article
A framework for infrastructuring commons creation
Sacks, J., Galabo, R. 6/11/2022
Conference contribution/Paper
Botswana blood commons: Visualizing blood services as a public-commons partnership
Sacks, J., Galabo, R., Nthubu, B. 19/08/2022
Conference contribution/Paper
All Publications
E3: Truly Ethical Digital Design (TEDD)
01/08/2023 → 30/04/2024
Research
IAA ESRC: Growing Together – a barometer to understanding and activate social wellbeing through micro-gardening.
01/08/2021 → 31/01/2022
Research
My Mainway consultancy project - Phase 2
25/06/2021 → 30/09/2021
Consultancy
Designing and running online workshops
25/11/2020 → 02/12/2020
Consultancy
A distributed co-design approach
01/04/2020 → 07/05/2021
Research
Co-production Summer School for Research and Social Change
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
King's college Impact and Engagement Summer School
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
IASDR 2023 (Event)
Publication peer-review
Insights into digitalisation of public services from a commons perspective
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Practice-based PhD research: An approach for improving creative engagement tools
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Participatory Design Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Design Journal (Journal)
Publication peer-review
IASDR 2021
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Creative West End Winter Market
Other
Growing Together 3
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Growing Together 2: Second Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Growing together 1
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Crafts VS Plastics: Eco Packaging That Matters
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
EAD Conference (Event)
Editorial activity
Envisioning Sustainable Futures Together Springboard
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
My Mainway consultancy project - Phase 2
Consultancy
ImaginationLancaster Design Summit 2021
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Fifteenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
EAD Conference (Event)
Publication peer-review
IASDR 2021 (Event)
Publication peer-review
Designing and running online workshops
Consultancy
Design: Vertical and Horizontal Growth
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
The Design Research Society 2020 International Conference
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
EAD Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Design Research Society Conference 2018
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
- Social Design