Interdisciplinary designer, educator and entrepreneur, Mafalda has an international background that combines design, innovation, management, professional training and higher education. Mafalda’s research interests and focus include pedagogical methods applied to the teaching of social design innovation which bridge and borrow knowledge from other disciplines, and explore visual and embodied forms of learning. Informing her research are aspects of positionality, intersectionality, collaborative creativity, applied ethics, social complexity, and cultural sensitivity, to name a few.