Pushpi Bagchi

Principal Designer
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Dr Pushpi Bagchi is a visual communication designer and researcher dedicated to leveraging design as a tool for social innovation. As the Principal Designer of Innovation Services, she champions co-creation through design and futures-focused methodologies to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations with partners across EFI’s ecosystem.

Pushpi holds a PhD in Design and an MA in Graphic Design from the University of Edinburgh. Her expertise spans visual communication, human-centred design, participatory methodologies, and critical theory. She has worked in various roles in the education, creative, and third sectors across Sri Lanka, India, and the United Kingdom. Her research explores participatory and systems design, pluriversality and transnationalism. She is particularly interested in how the nuances of cultural context create frictions that challenge notions of universality.

New Innovation Service

Edinburgh Futures Institute is developing a new Innovation Service to support partners, researchers and collaborators deliver challenge-led innovation. This new service brings together expertise and practice across the Institute and comprises of three new teams: the Futures and Design Team, the Collaborative Impact Team and the Data-led Methods and Research Technology Team.

Futures and Design team

The Futures and Design team develops innovative approaches, toolkits, and methodologies grounded in both futures thinking and design to facilitate and support challenge-led innovation.

Join us to challenge, create, and make change happen.

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