SPEAKERS
Gautier Chomel
Project manager for EDRLab, backed up by 25 years of experience as an editorial designer, 12 of them dedicated to accessibility, Gautier is also a confirmed trainer who worked for international organizations like WIPO and the Daisy Consortium and has operated éditadapt, a certified training center. His passion for book production technics goes as far as hand printing using 3d matrices during his spare time.
Manuel Lagos Rodríguez
Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of A Coruña. Master's degree in Industrial Computing and Robotics, completed at the same university. Currently, he works as a research support technician in the TALIONIS research group at the University of A Coruña and is a PhD student in Information and Communication Technologies. His lines of research deal with the development and implementation of virtual reality scenarios for active aging and for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
Thais Pousada García
Thais Pousada PhD in Health Science by University of A Coruña (2011). She is a graduate in occupational therapy (2003-2006), with a master degree in Health Assistance an Research (2018). In 2016 she got a degree in Nursing.
She is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Science at the University of A Coruña. Her professional experience includes job positions in different organizations and enterprise, and different topics of occupational therapy`s intervention, such as elderly, people with neurological conditions, and, especially people with rare diseases, in concrete, with Neuromuscular Disorders.
She is a member of TALIONIS Research Group (https://talionis.citic.udc.es/) and she is involved in different projects focused on assistive technologies (especially with 3D printers).
Sandra Braddick
Specialist Learning Support Tutor, Weymouth and Kingston Maurward College
Marianna Belvedere
Specialized art historian, heritage education expert, vice president of Spazio Geco Cooperative Society. Curates, together with the other founding members, accounting, planning and fundraising activities. She coordinates an internal working group (MUSEUMS team). She is a partner and vice-president of the Cooperative born in 2018, but since 2013 she has already been coordinating the activities of the association that preceded the birth of the company and has been involved in the development of one of the areas of research and work: digital fabrication at the service of cultural heritage valorization.
Since 2023 she has been fully dedicated to the growth of Spazio Geco, closing important parallel working relationships. Her experience as an expert in heritage education and her years of service in the library field enable her to design innovative, high-content user services capable of “opening” sources to a wide audience. In Geco’s projects, she is responsible for devising the concept behind the enhancement and many other aspects related to creating and displaying content in an accessible sense. Spazio Geco has to its credit numerous interventions in museums, libraries, archives and cultural (and other) institutions of various kinds throughout Italy.
Works range from the conception and realization of entire multimedia and interactive displays (e.g., the one for the Museum of Visconti di Belgioioso, Pavia 2024), playful popular paths with digital points of interest (totems) for in-depth study (MVSA experience at the MVSA, Museum of History and Art Valtellinese in Sondrio, the end result of one of the winning projects of the INNOVAMUSEI 2021 call for proposals), to single elements such as 3D puzzles or multi-accessible tactile maps, development of web apps, websites, writing and production of widespread interactive podcasts related to the storytelling of parks and institutions, interactive tactile closets, AI-powered selfie totems, and more.
As co-curator of the volume History Goes on Stage, on December 10, 2013, she received the Silvia Dell’Orso Award for the best popularization work inherent to the issues concerning the country’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage (archaeological, historical, artistic, architectural, demoethnoanthropological, landscape) for the year.
Nga Huynh
Based in Milan, Huynh To Nga is Vietnamese. She is now working as an open source mapper, landscape architect, and designer. Following a Master's degree in Urban Project Heritage and Sustainable Development (ENSA Toulouse and Hanoi Architecture University), Nga recently received her diploma from Politecnico di Milano's Landscape Heritage Master's program. She majored in Building Architecture for her Bachelor's degree at Hanoi Architecture University.
Applying culture and landscape heritage is her main area of attention.
Doris Rothauer
Doris Rothauer is an art manager, consultant, expert and author supporting and promoting cultural impact through arts and culture. She served as executive director of several renowned art institutions in Vienna, before turning to strategy consulting for Museums with a focus on sustainability and inclusion.