Laia Blasco

Bachelor of Fine Arts (1993), Postgraduate in Visual Culture Studies at the University of Barcelona (2004) Degree in Graphic Design at Llotja School (2005), and Master in Multimedia Applications at the Open University of Catalunya (2013). She is currently the Director of the Arts Degree at Open University of Catalonia (UOC).

Since 2010, she is lecturer of Informatics, Multimedia and Telecommunication department at the Open University of Catalonia, she teaches in Multimedia Degree and in Design and Digital Creation Degree. She has also taught about creativity and graphic design in Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Autonomous University of Barcelona and in several vocational schools.

She has an extensive professional experience as a graphic designer, illustrator and pre-press specialist too. Nowadays she is enrolled at the Network and Information Technologies PhD program at the Open University of Catalunya. Her artistic and academic research is focused on the study and creation of visualizations as technological tools for exploration, experimentation and learning, with social, cultural, ideological and political implications