Mafalda Samuelsson Gamboa receives the IT Faculty Pedagogical Prize 2021

Motivation from colleagues and students:

”[…] during the covid-19 pandemic create a design community where students and teachers together explore exciting design challenges. Under normal circumstances our education is characterized by a studio culture, where the students are working with projects and where also the continuous feedback between students and teachers is a central part. […] Within an extremely short period of time Mafalda managed, as many of our teachers, to transform her course in study period 4 to an online course. In Mafalda's case it was the course TIA243 Designing User Experiences, and the support letter from the students shows that Mafalda despite the pandemic manages to create a highly appreciated and innovative design project […]”

The IT Faculty received many nominations for the Pedagogical Prize this year, which resulted in interviews with all the nominees.

The motivation from the jury:

"Mafalda Samuelsson Gamboa showed many innovative ways to create a design community online, based on new didactic online tools and also pedagogical ideas as for example an online community.

Mafalda's pedagogical deed has been focused on the students' well-being and learning in a time of pandemic and is appreciated by both students and colleagues at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering."

Link to article by Mafalda Samuelsson Gamboa and Sara Ljungblad:

Designerly Ways of Knowing in HCI Education: A Case Study of a Peer Community-Based Studio