Professor of Design for Social and Digital Innovation at Elisava Design School and Engineering, Arianna is Leader of DESIS Lab ELISAVA-DESIS Network, the policy lab working in co-production of Barcelona Municipality. She is also Director of the Masterlab in Service Design for Place and Community Building (http://www.elisava.net/en/studies/masterlab-service-design-place-and-community-building), the Research Group and Collective CAMBIO and co-leading TIME (Teaching Innovation through Experiments group), dedicated to the transition from old to new design education scenarios and training professors, practitionnaires, designers, artists, makers interesting in researching through creativity and design. As Director of International Relation-Ass.Dean of the Elisava, she take care of building the relations with the international public and private Education eco-system, looking for common actions of transformative learning. She is also curator-maker of creative formats for festivals (Open Design Festival Capetown, South Africa; Armenia Art Fair-Design Conversations), collaborating with museums outreach programs( V&A Digital Design Weekend), Fablabs network and emergent design and performing arts hubs( Marseille Living lab) to foster peer to peer learning and collaboration platform. She had worked in Cameroon, Turkey, Armenia and South Africa for Local Govern on civic-coproduction programs for the future digital creative scenario of community building, participation, and collaboration and civic "commons-community" building using creativity format as platform of social and digital innovation.
She works and collaborates regularly with UNIFEM, UNESCO, EESC-European Economic and Social Committee, United Nations, Victoria and Albert Museum, Xschool, GSMA, Open Design Festival Cape Town, Civic Innovation Offices and European Network of Culture and Creativity.