Stephanie Pau
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Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
-  CEDRIC PRICE

In the present push to a digital-first world, this question is more relevant than ever.

With a first degree in electronics and electrical engineering and a large part of my career development was in technology delivery (from software engineer for gaming and finance software to solutions architect using space technology). I feel I can appreciate the nuances in raising and answering Cedric Price's question. Indeed, every operational technology involves people, so it's not like the question have not been considered in technology deliveries. Still, I was dissatisfied with the limitation of the solution-thinking-first approach. So I have retrained as a design researcher so that I can expand into the problem-thinking-first approach. However, I do not see the two approaches as a dichotomy. 

I am on a quest to develop participatory methods to understand the contexts in which technology sits, the consequences and the way towards desirable futures. Are you on a similar quest?
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Stephanie Pau - Short CV


Talks/Publications


​Elsevier Futures Journal // 2020
​New Spaces for Healthcare Futures Studies: Connecting Existing Theory to Deeper Participatory Practice
(journal paper)

Design4Health Conference (NL) // 2020
Beyond speculation - Using imperfect experts for designing the collective futures of healthcare for space
​(conference paper)
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Royal College of Art // 2020

Seminar: Designing for Future Unknowns
at Design Futures Seminar (Online)

Royal College of Art // 2018, 2019, 2020
Visiting Lecturer 
"Robotics?" in The Fifth State  
Workshop: Speculating the Human-Robot Futures

"Making Senses" in Trans-humanism
Grand Challenge: Design for Safety 


Intelligient Mobility Design Center // 2019
Poster: Humanity Centered Design 
at Transformation Symposium

Earlier Works // before 2017 

Speaker at TEDxEastEnd Society Beyond Borders:
The Curious Case of Curiosity

​Research Projects at Imperial College London:
Connected Coffee Table, Affective Wardrobe


Creative Facilitation


​Virtual World // 2020
Alternative Futures Workshops
Thinking with hands (Online)  x4
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​​Imperial College London // 2020
From PPE to Spacesuits 
Producer of a series of online conversations with NASA's spacesuit maker, astronauts, healthcare professionals and alliance.

​Design Council @ Virtual World // 2020
Online Roundtable  
Commercial Determinants of Health 

Design Council @ Virtual World // 2020
Online Design Sprints 
Online Co-Creation Workshops

Cityscapes and Infrastructure for Health and Wellbeing 
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Royal College of Art // 2019
XHealth Lab II
Design with People: Futures of Healthcare in Space 

Royal College of Art // 2019
XHealth Lab
A design game: Co-speculating the futures of healthcare in space
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RCA Short Courses @ Design Museum // 2018, 2019
Design Thinking & Innovation Executive Masterclass
Visual scribe and facilitation assistant to Jeremy Myerson (Chair of Design at Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design)

Electromagnetic Fields (Festival) // 2018
Speculative design of health and well-being in space for future adventurers
A design research workshop to explore space medicine scenarios through improvisation/acting and "object storming".

Borders Session (Festival) // 2018
Living off Earth II Lab
A design research workshop to co-create two tales of Mars exploration scenarios with participants.

Producer and curator of SensoryXD, a health wearables fashion show, and a corresponding conference track on Healthcare and Design at Giant Health Event 2017

Earlier Works // before 2017 
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Producer of a series of hackathons, talks and co-organiser of unconferences, all of which are related to space exploration

​Producer of a summer festival of art x space tech: Galactic Fete 
 

Awards/​Solutions

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​Royal Society of Medicine // 2018
Design against Never Events 
Winner of RSM Hackathon on re-designing the flow of information to reduce wrong site surgery with surgeons and surgical trainees.

Satellite Applications Catapult // 2013
Winner of Space in Apps Hackathon 
Prototyped a solution for toilet problems on cross-country trains using satellite communications systems and Raspberry Pi in a project entitled "Stuff Happens In Trains".

Plasticity Tech
Founded and closed a heallth/wearable tech startup 

Satellite Applications Catapult
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​A strategy for applying space assets and technologies to health(care)

Satellite Applications Catapult
​Solutions architecture for satellite applications, including solutions for disasters response in a developing country, satellite ground stations

​Technology/innovation implementation and delivery in a wide range of industries and organisations since 2002.
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Education

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MRes Healthcare & Design (2017-2019)​
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Space Systems at UCL Centre for Systems Engineering (2015, short course)
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Curating and Exhibition Management (2007, short course)
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MEng Electronics & Electrical Engineering with Management ​(2000-2004)

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  • Stephanie Pau
    • XHealthLab
  • ||
  • Studio Transdusense