Jessica Guy is a designer and action researcher. Jessica’s work focuses on exploring participatory practices, community engagement and capacity-building activities in European research projects on a global and local scale. Jessica holds a Master degree in Design for Emergent Futures organised by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, in collaboration with the Fab Lab Barcelona and Fab Academy. In the past, Jessica successfully graduated as an Industrial Designer (BA) at the Munich University for Applied Sciences and participated in the acceleration programme X-Futures by Fab Lab Barcelona. At Fab Lab Barcelona, Jessica is leading the global activities of the Creative Europe project Distributed Design Platform and co-leading the Erasmus+ Project Makeademy educational programme. Furthermore, they are the Make Works worldwide coordinator and lead of Make Works Catalonia. Jessica has contributed as a researcher to the European-funded projects Pop-Machina, CENTRINNO and REFLOW.
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Educational Programs Lead
MDEF Co-Director, Strategic Advisor and IAAC Board Member
Future Learning Lead
Action Research Lead
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Communications Lead
Strategic Projects Lead
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Distributed Design Expert
Additive Manufacturing Expert
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Systemic Design Expert
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Audiovisual Maker
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Materials and Textiles Strategic Advisor
Civic Ecology Strategic Advisor
Distributed Design Strategic Advisor
Productive Cities Strategic Advisor