Diego S. Maranan

I am a transdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher who investigates how technologies can help us reimagine and reconfigure our relationship with the environment, with other people, and with ourselves. My work ranges from co-creating socially engaged large-scale art installations, to designing wearable technologies for wellbeing and creativity, to building and managing creative research and educational programs that contribute to sustainable development goals. I am currently an Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Information and Communications Studies at the University of the Philippines Open University and the Deputy Director for Research of the University of the Philippines Center for Intelligent Systems. I also co-founded Curiosity, a Manila-based design strategy firm that helps businesses, NGOs, and government design meaningful services, as well as SEADS, an international transdisciplinary network of artists, scientists, engineers and activists who reimagine and reshape the future through critical inquiry and hands-on experimentation.