Vanessa Monna is a Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Delft, Department of Human-Centred Design, Co-Designing Social Change section. She is involved in two EU-funded LIFE projects: Hands-On: Learning Processes to build Multi-stakeholder Energy and Climate Assemblies towards a Just and Clean Energy Transition and Irene: Catalysing Inclusive, Representative, Equitable Energy reNovation wavE. The projects regard energy transition and justice, enabling fair and inclusive pathways for systemic change. She is coordinating the Resilient Delta Initiative Tiny Lives Unseen, which explores how low-cost cameras can help people observe insect life in urban environments and how such technologies shape citizens’ engagement with biodiversity.
Before TU Delft, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Polimi DESIS Lab. Her PhD focused on Civic Design, and she was a Visiting PhD Scholar at the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago. Vanessa has over ten years of international teaching experience in Design.