is a design researcher at LUCA School of Arts (Genk, Belgium). She graduated as a Master of Philosophy (mPhil) in Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands). Since 2010, she is part of the Social Spaces research group (research unit ‘Inter-Actions’), specialized in participatory art and design research. Over the years she has coordinated and participated in various research projects that deal with participatory design processes involving children, such as ‘MELoDiA’, ‘SPEEL-Goed’ and ‘Making Things!’. In 2015, she started her PhD research (KU Leuven, Faculty of Social Sciences) on the design of methods, tools and techniques for participatory design processes involving children. Besides being a researcher, Selina also teaches within the Communication & Media Design program of LUCA School of Arts, campus C-mine.
last update: June 2019
Articles published on IXD&A:
"Recent academic debates have urged us to rethink children’s roles in Participatory Design (PD). In this article, we feed this discussion by putting the role of process designer into practice, allowing..."
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