Laryssa Tarachucky

Architect and Urban Planner, Master in Design and PhD in Engineering and Knowledge Management (UFSC). Post-doctoral student at the USP Global Cities Synthesis Center at the University of São Paulo's Institute for Advanced Studies. Founder and coordinator of LabIC Novale, a civic laboratory dedicated to facilitating participatory design processes for urban media and the co-creation of solutions to issues of shared concern at the local level. Leader of the research group A Cidade e a Névoa, which investigates hybrid urban spaces, civic technologies, participatory mapping, locative media and location-based technologies applied to the urban experience. Co-founder of the Children's Books Going Mobile project, which explores the use of mobile technologies in digital children's books to create situated narrative experiences. She is a member of the Australia-Brazil Network for Research and Practice in Smart Cities.