Francesca Rizzo
Department of Design
Politecnico di Milano
Bio
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Francesca Rizzo is full professor in Interaction Design and Users Studies, and Recor’s international relationships delegate for European Research Projects. She researches on the application of Design Thinking in public sector innovation and how co-design triggers organisational changes. She coordinated and partook in many EU projects and authored several national and international publications on the topic. On these topics, she is coordinating the HE project ORBIS and co-oordinated the H2020 SISCODE. She has been responsible and member of research teams in many EU projects in the fields of Service Design, Smart City and Social Innovation, user led innovation – recent projects are NetZeroCities, easyRights, the CEF AI4GOV, the ESPON Digiser, the DG CNECT GovTech, SEED, and RoadSTEMer.
She is author of many articles published in international journals and conferences. She is the Editor of the book published by Springer (2016) on Human Smart Cities.