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Lucia Trias holds an MSc Design Research from Bahaus Foundation Dessau, as well as a four year degree in Industrial Design from Universidad de la República Uruguay. My research focuses on using design research methods along with discursive studies.

Based in Berlin, my practice can be found at the intersection of participatory approaches and pluriversal design conceptions. I am a design activist for Free-design, highlighting my work together with Mozilla foundation’s OL programme and my free-design advisory for socio-political collectives.

My life experience as a migrant woman of colour in Berlin has enforced awareness of modern indoctrinations and the design role in such processes. Hence, pluriversal design stands for me first, as a means of understanding my privileges; as a cisgender woman with an academic career, as a legalized migrant, as coming from a working-class family that politicised me in terms of class struggles and capitalist inequalities.

Second, for stating a strongly political positioning towards life in Europe; ultimately pushing a strong interest on me for disentangling colonial structures around culture and knowledge creation. Hence, turning myself into a decolonial thinker, predominantly into an advocate for peoples cultural autonomía.