Sebastião is a designer-maker from Lisbon (born 1983) with a degree in Product Design (Universidade de Lisboa). He participated in an Erasmus program at Muthesius Kunsthochschule (Kiel, Germany), during which he developed a special interest in machine building, eco design, and circular economy. Sebastião is responsible for the fablab maintenance.
Besides Buinho, Sebastião has been a collaborator in the following projects/companys: Product Research and Development (RatRig); Product Design and technical support 3D modelling and 3D printing of recycled plastic (Plastico Circular); Product development of hidroponic sollutions and renewable energy (Ecocenter).
Rasim Savaskan was born in 1985 in Istanbul. Rasim has a bachelor’s degree in industrial product design from the Yeditepe University, Turkey, and an MSc. in strategic product design from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Rasim specializes in Slow Cities within the context of sustainable development. He was a guest researcher at TU Delft in 2014-2015. Since 2014, he has been collaborating with Ana on sustainable design projects, and has been working as designer, researcher, and project manager at SUSDESIGN since 2015.
Ana Mestre was born in Lisbon, in 1978. She graduated from Industrial Design in 2001, obtained a MSc degree in Renewable Technologies in 2005 and concluded a PhD on the subject of “Sustainable Product Innovation” in 2014. Ana started her career as one of the first eco-design researchers in Portugal. In 2004, Ana founded SUSDESIGN – Design for Sustainability Studio and Research dedicated to sustainable innovation. In 2006, she created and directed “Design Cork for Future, Innovation, and Sustainability” the first internationally applied design research initiative for cork innovation. In 2009, she created the CORQUE DESIGN studio brand. Ana has a portfolio of more than 50 exhibitions, in several World destinations, in Europe, America and Asia. She has been acclaimed and awarded by internationally recognised publications, such as the New York Times, Wired, Monocle Magazine amongst others, on her design work. In 2015, she was nominated as a Portuguese Design Award finalist.
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