Meet Anna Barbara

My contribution to the mission at WDO’s is to make design a tool for the empowerment of minorities, the promotion of design for women empowerment and engagement; the creation of multicultural design narratives focused on those countries that have extraordinary design that has been muted in favour of a mainstream narrative; the engagement of bodies and senses promoting a design for reacting to the radical digitalization in our communities; to reshape the new professions in design through a sustainable education for better shared futures. My projects in recent years wanted to place in design the hope of change within the SDGs indicated as a reference for the design community and beyond.

HERstory – Education for Women Empowerment program launched at Expo Dubai 2020 for a duration of 2 years aimed at young women from Arab Gulf region and Africa to develop advanced research to benefit their local communities. Africa Design Futures program in collaboration with Moleskine Foundation and WikiAfrica to engage young African designers to write lemmas about African design to avoid the foreign narrative as it is mostly; the Design for Ukrainian Heritage that is the Museum of Ukrainian Museums designed into the Metaverse in collaboration with 20 museums; Olfactorium for Alzheimer’s which is an olfactory gymnasium, within a village for Alzheimer’s patients, to recover emotional memory and foster greater inclusion of the patients in neighbourhood communities.