Currently: external consultant @ UNDP Strategic Innovation Unit
Riccardo Torta (he, him) is a design researcher and service designer currently based in Milano.
My studies focus on systems and futures thinking, with a specific interest on how social and environmental transitions can occur with participatory, reflexive and decolonial practices. My practice includes workshop facilitation, the production of essays and articles, participation in talks and lectures, and the contribution to academic research projects.
UnSee Talks – Transition Paradigms for Service Design
SDD, May-July 2025
Between Transitions: Navigating Uncertainties in Service Design
Politecnico di Milano, Mar 2025
Service Design & Pluriverse
Politecnico di Milano, Feb 2025
Co-Design in the Polycene
Lancaster University, Sept 2024
Social Circles for Collective Reflexivity
MSc Thesis 2023