Dr Rosendy Fernandez Galabo
Senior Research AssociateProfile
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. As a postdoctoral researcher at ImaginationLancaster, his work has engaged with both research within their Community and Public Sector cluster and their Special Interest Groups of Social Design and Digital Good.
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 digital 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 including knowledge exchange.
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
Selected Publications
Challenging Capitalism through Design for Commonism
Galabo, R. 12/09/2023 In: Flourish By Design. London : Routledge p. 43-46. 4 p. ISBN: 9781032507682. Electronic ISBN: 9781032507651.
Chapter
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
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 In: Design and Covid-19. London : Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 1350266728, 9781350266711, 9781350266728. Electronic ISBN: 9781350266735, 9781350266742.
Chapter
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
Conference contribution/Paper
All Publications
E3: Truly Ethical Digital Design (TEDD)
01/08/2023 → 31/05/2024
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
Workshop para Mobilização de recursos
Invited talk
22nd European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Participatory Research with Marginalised Communities: Ethics, Design, and Co-production
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
CoDesign (Journal)
Publication peer-review
The future is a work in progress Exhibition at the Festival of Futures
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Co-designing Rules and Roles for a Thriving Reapp Platform.
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Co-Designing the Future
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Celebrating the End of Cooperativa Digital with Our Partners
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Redesigning Reapp for NGOs
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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
IASDR 2021 (Event)
Publication peer-review
EAD Conference (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
Designing Research Ecosystems from Scratch
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
EAD Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Co-designing Improvements of Knowledge Exchange Tools
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Children’s champions workshop – Exploring Leapfrog tools
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Design Research Society Conference 2018
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Improving creative engagement tools
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Redesigning tools with Lancashire Care Quality Improvement team
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Improving three young people’s tools with Care Leavers Support Workers
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
3rd IPTV application challenge
Prize (including medals and awards)
- Social Design