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Canan Akoglu works as Associate Professor at Lab for Social Design and as the Head of Design for People Master's Programme at Kolding School of Design in Denmark. Akoglu also has a shared academic leadership at Lab for Social Design at the same institution. She has a background in architecture together with a PhD degree in industrial design from Istanbul Technical University. Her main research interests include participatory design, stakeholder engagement, service design, social design in health, social care and overall wellbeing. Prior to her current position, Akoglu worked as the co-founder of the Department of Industrial Design at Ozyegin University in Istanbul, Turkey and as a postdoctoral researcher at Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden.

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