Our team

PhD candidate

Pauline is an inclusive designer for social innovation. Throughout her design studies at l’École de Design Nantes Atlantique she developed a sensory, sensitive and reflexive approach, centered on human needs. At the Care Design Lab (Nantes), she questioned the design biases related with disabilities. It made her wonder how to design better for, by and with handicapped people. She now uses and analyses codesign methodologies to draw the transition towards a more inclusive society: in the fields of culture, social and health care, public policy or transportation.

PhD candidate

Eva has been helping companies design new strategies, products, and services for the past 5 years working at Stim, frog design and now as an independant consultant. She holds a double degree in business and research in innovation from HEC Paris and Polytechnique, and a Postgraduate diploma in design from the University of Arts of London. She has always been interested in driving impact at the intersection of business and design. She investigates design methods to enable companies’ sustainable transitions.

Junior professor chair

Giulia Marcocchia holds a PhD in innovation management from TelecomParisTech, and has conducted research projects at the national and international level for i3, Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Innovation (UMR 9217) attached to the CRG management research center, Ecole Polytechnique France, for Strate Ecole de Design France, and CAMI, Ca’ Foscari, Italy.

Her research focuses on the process of co-creation between stakeholders in the exploration of the unknown towards the emergence of an innovation ecosystem, with a particular focus on sustainable transitions through digital technologies. She studies the processes as well as the means to achieve them: documents, communication situations, technologies and intermediate design objects.

​Research Activities:

• Emergence of innovation ecosystems
• Media and alignment processes for transition design

PhD candidate

Graduated in industrial design in 2007 Stephanie mainly worked in the outdoor sports industry designing products and services. She appreciated setting up approaches of innovation through design, co-design, and creativity sessions. In 2017 she decided to become an independent designer to bring her experience to several companies, associations, local communities and universities. She collaborated with communications, UX design and CSR strategy specialists and worked on transformation projects for public companies and local communities. She enjoyed bringing together the various actors around the project through design methods. As she valued working with territories, she decided to make it her research topic.

Post-doctoral researcher

Justine Peneau holds a Ph.D in Design since January 2023. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher within the CY Design research group, as part of the PEPR LINDDA project: Living INfrastructure to Design responsible Digital technology for Agroecological transition. In this contexte she contributes to elaborate and evaluate a conceptual and methodological framework for a « living » infrastructure design model for agroecological digital transition. She also participates to the analysis and co-design of a responsible digital model for agroecological transition, at the interface between humans, living beings, non-humans, and non-living entities.

Her research focuses more particularly on the temporal dimension of co-design. She examines time from an anthropological perspective, seeing it as a framework that simultaneously enables and constrains interations, productions, know-how, tools… Following a sociology of emergence, she also observes the dynamics at play in co-design situations.