Sabine Junginger

Sabine Junginger, PhD, heads the Competence Center Design & Management and the MA Service Design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. Her work explores how human-centered design approaches promote transformative changes in business, government, and society to achieve the sustainable goals agenda and to arrive at citizen-centric policies and public services. Sabine serves as an elected member of the international advisory board of the Design Research Society and on the editorial boards of Design Issues and She Ji. Sabine is a Fellow of the Hertie School and Chair of the Board of the non-profit nextlearning e.V. with its Politics for Tomorrow initiative. She holds a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University. Current projects include building the MUNICIPAL network that allows Swiss municipalities, civil society, business, and academia co-create energy solutions together. VA-PEPR explores how voice assistants become part of everyday life at home and what kind of practices and routines people develop around them (https://sites.hslu.ch/va-pepr/en/).