Biography
Bianca is Professor for Eco-Social Design and head of the research institute “Transformation Design” at HSLU Design Film Art. She has been working for many years on issues of inequalities, digital justice, social and digital participation and the potential of design for eco-social transformation and a more just digital transformation.
As a research group leader at the Weizenbaum Institute and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), she has worked in national and international collaborations with actors from the arts, academia, politics and civil society to explore how emerging discourses of injustice and inequality can be translated into structural change. 2022-2024, she was an interim professor for design theory and research ant the University of fine Arts Braunschweig (HBK).
Bianca is involved in numerous scientific committees and networks, such as the assessment committee of the call ‘NWA Key Enabling Methodologies (KEM's) of the Dutch Research Council and the international Gender Design Network (iGDN). She is chair woman of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF) and a founding member of the international Social Design Network (SDN). Since 2022 she has co-hosted the podcast “Purple Code. Intersectional feminist perspectives on digital societies” (purplecode.org).
