Helena Kraff (PhD in design) is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg. She is active as a teacher in the master’s programme Embedded Design, in which students practice the integration of design in organizational contexts. Helena’s main research areas are participatory and collaborative design, which through transdisciplinary research projects are applied within other fields and disciplines, such as tourism, migration, and integration studies. Helena is currently engaged in the project The role of tourism in multicultural societies (TiMS), and is active as a board member at the Centre for Tourism (CFT) at the University of Gothenburg. Recent publications in design research deal with pitfalls of participation, agonistic participation, and diversity of participation. Publications outside the design disciplines discuss the roles of social enterprises and community-based organizations in socioeconomic development, participatory place branding, and effects of transdisciplinary collaboration.
