Ambra Trotto

Ambra Trotto is a founder of d.centre|EU

She is Director of Transformation and RIS at the EIT Culture & Creativity and associate professor at the Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden. Within her role at the EIT CC she promotes systemic and sustainable societal transformation, by ideating, shaping and supporting strategic projects and initiatives that harvest the imaginative power of the cultural and creative sector to produce such transformation. Ambra Trotto is founder of d.centre|EU, a European endeavour that catalyses ecosystems into transforming existing practices into sustainable ones, through design, by initiating and curating multidimensional and transdisciplinary synergies based on beauty, diversity and meaning, to realise sustainable futures.

She has initiated the expansion project of RISE (the Swedish Research Institute) in the North of Sweden, through The Pink Initiative, with the long-term goal of promoting socially and environmentally sustainable development in the region, through design research. She has also worked as senior advisor for the Digital Ethics initiative, setting the foundations of how RISE takes ethics into account, when designing transformation with technology as a material. She has been part of the Development Team of the strategic research area Value-shaping System Design at RISE and has coordinated, in the same institute, the expertise area related to Design for Systemic Transformation.

Ambra Trotto’s fascinations lie in how to empower ethics, through design, using digital and non-digital technologies as materials. Strongly believing in the power of Design and Making, Ambra works with makers, builders, craftsmen, dancers and designers to shape societal transformation. Within her design research activity, she produces co-design methods to boost transdisciplinary design conversations.

She is guest researcher at the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), in particular, she collaborates with research group of Systemic Change.