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Ramia Mazé is a Guest Lecturer at Konstfack, a Senior Researcher at the Interactive Institute and a Research Fellow at the IIT Institute of Design.

Ramia Mazé is a design researcher, manager and educator focusing on participatory and critical methods for developing system and product design. At the Interactive Institute in Sweden since 2001, she has been involved in interdisciplinary and international research projects in the areas of sustainable design, smart materials, interactive architecture and tactical media. Through her work in research, corporate and consultancy contexts, her specialty has developed as a focus on temporal aspects of design form and system design. Developing time-based user interactions and aesthetic experiences, her work involves critical and interventionist approaches to investigate effects on social practices and material cultures. She is currently pursuing research in the area of social innovation and sustainability as a collaboration with the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the USA and developing the Design Act public program of events at Iaspis on socially and politically engaged design.

In a variety of leadership and management roles at the Interactive Institute, she has led research teams, built strategic partnerships, supervised researchers, developed new research areas and secured major funding grants. She is a founding faculty member of the MA program in Experience Design at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, has developed courses at Umeå Institute of Design, at the School of Design and Crafts at Gothenburg University and at Chalmers University of Technology. She lectures in postgraduate and research institutions, cultural and industry events around the world, and is active on program committees and as a reviewer for leading, international design, HCI and research publications and conferences. An editor of three books and author on more than twenty book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, her doctoral dissertation ‘Occupying Time: Design Technology and the Form of Interaction’ was published by Axl Books in 2007. Previously employed at the client consultancy MetaDesign San Francisco and corporate research at Philips Electronics, her academic background is in interaction design, computer-related design and architecture, in which she has received a PhD from Malmö University, a MA from the Royal College of Art London, and a BA from Columbia University, respectively.