Susana Soares is Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University within the Department of Architecture and Design. She is also researcher fellow on “Material Beliefs” project, based in Goldsmiths University of London. In 2007, Susana graduated at MA Design Interaction in Royal College of Art, London. Previously she graduated in Product Design from ESAD, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal in 2001, being involved in several international design projects, working as a designer within studios, institutions, industries and corporative contexts in subsequent years.

Early projects include an array of glassware designs for international brand MGlass, award-winning ‘Pico’, a collection of indoor ceramic tiles produced by Revigrés and ‘Science Pier 2005’ exhibition in Germany awarded by IF Communication Design Award 2006. Susana’s most recent work aims develop collaborative relations between scientific research and design. Translating to an outcome of systems and objects that people can understand. She employs design, as a tool, to explore future technological implications for public engagement and awareness.

Her projects have been shown in many exhibitions across Europe, USA and Japan and published internationally. Earlier this year, her work was exhibited in “Design and the Elastic Mind” at Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Paola Antoneli, becoming part of the permanent collection of the museum.