Valentina Nisi is currently Associate Professor of Design Thinking at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Técnico - U. Lisbon, Portugal, where she teaches and researches in the areas of Digital Interactive Design, Art and Media. She holds a degree (First class honours) in Fine Arts from the Fine Arts Albertine Academy of Turin, Italy, an MSc (First class honours) in Multimedia Systems and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She worked for 4 years at MediaLabEurope MIT’s European research Partner, investigating the potential of wireless mobile technologies in cinematic non-linear narratives. Valentina has published and exhibited and thought internationally, in the domains of digital media, art and design. Her research interests focus on designing and producing digitally mediated experiences in controlled spaces as well as in the wild, merging architecture, environment and landscape with multimedia and narrative and artistic elements. Her most recent efforts are now investigating how to integrate sustainability concerns with digital art and interactive media, through designing and producing aesthetically rich interactive experiences, fostering attention and awareness towards themes such as forest fires and climate change, preservation of nature and endangered natural landscapes and ecosystems.