Creativity Meetup - Matteo Zallio - "Inclusive Design"

Cambridge Creativity Meetup

MATTEO ZALLIO - "Inclusive Design"

We are very excited to welcome Matteo Zallio for an amazing Cambridge Creativity talk!

Please join us on Zoom on Tuesday December 8th at 6pm.
Format: 45' talk - 15' Q&A - 30' Open chat between participants.
PLEASE RSVP - the zoom link will be visible to RSVP attendees.
Meeting passcode: 0000

Do we really know who we are designing for?
Is our creative design process optimized to guarantee equity and inclusion?
Do you know how to train your creativity muscles?
Are you curious to understand how to navigate ambiguity and be confident to create?

Every person has the ability to create and prototype by unleashing their self-expression potential.
Come and learn more about how to use your creativity muscles and to design inclusively.

Matteo Zallio is an award-winning designer, UX researcher and adjunct professor. As a creative designer he worked with different research institutions, non-profit organizations and companies, in the field of education, health and wellbeing, mobility and transportation, doing user research, need-finding, concept brainstorming and prototyping of people-centered solutions.
A passionate researcher, eclectic inventor and UX design strategist, Matteo has developed an extensive track record understanding people’s needs and incorporating complex technical requirements into prototypes with the goal to improve people's lives through inclusive futuristic solutions.
He was the founder and CEO of the startup Déan Design Lab and was previously appointed as UX design researcher at the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at Stanford University, Fulbright research fellow at Stanford University, Center for Design Research, adjunct professor at INSEEC, San Francisco, postdoctoral UX researcher at Technological University Dublin, and spent his life researching and designing people-centered experiences.

During his career he served as chairman of the Irish National Mirror Committee for the standard ISO TC 314 “Ageing societies” and is an expert representative for the standard ISO TC 215 WG2 “Health informatics” and ISO TC 314 “Ageing societies”, as well as reviewer for academic journals and judge for international scientific panels and design competitions.

Matteo is currently a Marie Curie senior research fellow at University of Cambridge, Inclusive Design Group, working on an international project to improve people's life in smart environments.

His passion to give back and share his experiences led Matteo to become a coach and mentor at Open IDEO, SF-InnoDays, Lead The Future, and an expert member of several European innovation partnerships, coaching hundreds of students, researchers and professionals.

For more information about Matteo’s research and work: www.matteozallio.com
“The Handy, an open source tool to slow the spread of covid-19”: https://www.matteozallio.com/handy

Matteo is relocating from USA, via Italy, to Cambridge so let us give him a bit welcome. With his inquisitive and communicative character, this promises to be a fantastic evening: we hope to see many of you there!

PLEASE RSVP - the zoom link will be visible to RSVP attendees.
Meeting passcode: 0000

For any question, please contact Sacha K. via Meetup or email:
CambridgeCreativity@gmail.com