Mariana Salgado
Welcome to «Infrastructures” a podcast series exploring the cutting-edge intersection of design, climate action, and digital participation through the lens of infrastructure. Each episode dives into conversations with experts from different fields, sharing their experiences and innovations that shape the future of sustainability and societal participation. This is a series of 5 interviews to people based or coming from: Ireland, France Finland, Denmark and the United States.
This is part of the podcast Diseño y diáspora, the most listened podcast on design in Spanish speaking countries.
In this series, we feature:
- Tatu Marttila, a Finnish designer, lecturer, and researcher at Aalto University, shares his work on the ICOS Cities project and his insights into urban sustainability.
- Katie Berns, a designer and researcher from Ireland based in Finland, discusses her focus on food infrastructures and food waste activism, highlighting smart fridges and participatory action research. She also tells about her work within the ICOS Cities project.
- Sanna Marttila, now at IT University of Copenhagen, explores cultural infrastructures and how digital platforms like OpenGLAM support cultural heritage participation. She also told in this interview about urban decision-making.
- Max Stearns, a designer working on climate adaptation and mitigation, discusses democratic infrastructures and citizen participation in European climate projects like Net Zero Cities.
- Raphaelle Barbier, a design researcher from France, talks about integrating co-design into Earth observation projects, using her experience in the E-Shape project to show how collaboration can foster sustainability transitions.
Join us as we unpack the world of infrastructures and how design and research are paving the way for a more sustainable and participatory future.
This is part of the work that Mariana Salgado does for ICOS, Integrated Carbon Observation Systems. This is a Research Infrastructure focusing on carbon dioxide. It provides standardised and open data from close to 180 measurement stations across 16 European countries. The stations observe greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, the land surface and the oceans. Her work now concentrates on one EU project: IRISCC. Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks. In this project they will develop services using a co-design framework.