Author | Institution |
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van Zyl, Ria | Vega School |
Carstens, Lizette | Vega School |
Lizette started in 1994 as communication designer for an NGO where she designed voter education material for the first democratic elections. She joined QData in 1998 as a multimedia designer. In 2002, she founded her own design agency.
Lizette started lecturing at the University of Pretoria in 2012 and completed her Master's Degree in 2013 on using participatory design approaches during the design process to support SMME's. Lizette joined IIE-Vega in 2014 and is the Programme Manager in Digital and Game Design. She is pursuing Doctoral studies at IIE-Vega.
Research Passions: Co-design; interdisciplinary collaboration, design for social good, decolonisation of design; design management.
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