Susanna Tesconi

Professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Stanford & Columbia University’s FabLearn Fellows, Barcelona.

Professor of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications Studies at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She received a doctorate in education from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona and is a member of the DARTS group, dedicated to investigating the intersections of art, technology, and society. Her expertise is the study of the interaction between learning processes and technology. In this area, she focuses on accompanying people in developing their own devices, tools, and environments.

Since 2010 she has designed and implemented laboratories and educational programs related to interaction design and digital fabrication for different institutions such as Tabakalera – International Culture Center (Donostia) and the DHUB: Barcelona Design Museum. Since 2014, she has also been a member of the FabLearn Fellowship, promoted by the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab at Stanford University and Columbia University.