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Vasiliki (she/her) is a designer, technologist and crafter.
She works as an Associate Professor at the HCI & Design Section at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research combines materials experiences, computational crafts and body-based design methods. Through practice-based studies she investigates and reflects on intersections of these areas, probing the space of designing for well-being, exploring close-to-body technologies (e.g., soft robotics, self-tracking technologies), (bio)data as a design material, and design speculation through fabulation approaches. Her work critically engages with these areas, foregrounding body politics, ethics, ecological sensitivities, and feminist values.
She is co-head of the ETHOS Lab at ITU, and affiliated to the AIR Lab and IxD Lab.
She received her PhD degree in 2018, from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden, and Mobile Life VINNOVA Excellence Research Centre.
In her PhD dissertation Making Preciousness: Interaction Design through Studio Crafts, she investigated the notion of preciousness in interaction design through both theory and practice. Drawing on case studies of textile, jewellery, and leather crafts combined with design methods, she created interactive artefacts that highlight how material value, time, and skill can foster sustainability through care, repair, and long-term use. Her work also engaged with the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, exploring impermanence, incompleteness, and imperfection as design values. Read the Interview she gave to BBC Future on this research topic.
Before her PhD studies, she worked at HyperWerk, FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, Switzerland, as a design assistant in the motoco project. In 2011 she graduated from the Aegean University in Greece, from the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, in Hermoupolis, Syros. She had also spent six months at Weissensee School of the Arts, department of Textile and Surface Design, in Berlin and six months at Köln International School of Design (KISD), in Cologne, both through Erasmus Studies Scholarship. She has also lived in London.
Some of her personal interests:_ contemporary dance and contact improvisation, making art with mixed media/collage/embroidery, tufting, bass playing.
You can find more information about Vasiliki in Linkedin, Researchgate, or ITU research profile.
Email her at vats@itu.dk to ask for the full CV.
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