Liat Rogel

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About Liat Rogel

Service designer and expert in social innovation. I am passionate about creative processes and developing new tools for design thinking and innovative strategies towards sustainability. As founder of HousingLab, a laboratory for urban innovation in housing, I am facilitating and coaching processes of urban housing renewal. As the Director of Impact Housing Foundation I am exploring how private investments may be used to generate more social housing options. I am coordinating and managing local and European projects aiming at improving the urban lifestyle from an environmental and social point of view. I am the Lead Expert of the U.R Impact URBACT network aiming to prioritise social impact in Urban Regeneration. I am the project manager of the Pilot action of the H2020 project Centrinno. I am currently teaching social innovation In IES abroad Milan. I explore ways to improve didactics, using digital tools to integrate face to face classes. I hold a PhD in design from Politecnico di Milano as well as a master's degree in Service Design and a bachelor degree in Industrial Design. I like living in the city despite of everything, believing that good relationships between neighbours can make life easier and more fun. I do not own a car or a TV. When I don’t work, I am a mother of three, traveler and dancer.