What's Around Design?: Strategic and Speculative Biodesign for a Sustainable Future: Volume 1

Author:   Américo Mateus ,  Gabriel Patrocinio ,  Susana Leonor
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Pages:   324
Publication Date:   15 February 2026
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What's Around Design?: Strategic and Speculative Biodesign for a Sustainable Future: Volume 1


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Author:   Américo Mateus ,  Gabriel Patrocinio ,  Susana Leonor
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9783032081629


ISBN 10:   3032081629
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   15 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Américo Mateus is a lecturer and researcher at ISMAT–Lusófona Group, Portimão, and integrated senior researcher at CIAUD–Research Center in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design, FAUL–COFAC. His research focuses on participatory design, nature-based solutions, circular economy, biodesign, and innovation, with extensive involvement in European research and innovation projects. He serves as an expert in Taskforce 6–Co-creation of Nature-Based Solutions of the European Commission and is a director of the Nature-Based Solutions HUB Portugal, appointed by the EU NetworkNature. With more than 60 applied research projects implemented, his work embodies a strong vision of “Science for the Market” and is widely recognized in the fields of design and innovation facilitation. He is a frequent national and international speaker on design, creativity, circularity, biodesign, and nature-based solutions.  Gabriel Patrocínio is an associate professor of Design (2019-), co-director of the Master’s in Design for Circular Economy, and researcher at ISMAT–Lusófona Group (Portugal), and integrated senior researcher at CIAUD–Research Center in Architecture, Urbanism, and Design, FAUL–COFAC; adjunct professor at UERJ, the (Brazil, 1993-); and former director of ESDI/UERJ School of Design.Gabriel Patrocínio has done Ph.D. in Design Policies from Cranfield University, UK (2013).Gabriel Patrocínio is a co-publisher/author of Design and Development: Leveraging Social and Economic Growth through Design Policies (Blucher, 2019). Gabriel Patrocínio is an author of Design Policies and Intellectual Property: Demands for a New Era (Sebrae, 2018).  Susana Leonor is a professor at ISMAT–Lusófona Group where she directs the Bachelor’s in Communication Design and Creative Technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Design from the University of Aveiro (2016) and her research focuses on participatory processes, co-design, and pedagogical innovation. She has coordinated and participated in several European projects, including COCOON, EURIDICE, CECAM, and BiomaterialKIT, and in Horizon 2020 projects URBiNAT and Co-Create, where she led tasks on participatory design and co-creation. Her main research interests include speculative and critical design, biodesign, and sustainable futures.

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