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Francesca Ostuzzi is a Professor at Ghent University within the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design. She leads research initiatives in sustainability and product development, particularly focusing on circular design and system-oriented approaches. Francesca obtained her Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design in 2007 and a Master's degree in Design & Engineering in 2010 from Politecnico di Milano. Following her education, she engaged in collaboration with private companies to develop Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) before serving as a lecturer in the Design Department at Politecnico di Milano's Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering Department. In 2017, she completed her PhD with a focus on 'Open-ended Design: Explorative Studies on Intentionally Support Change Designing Imperfection.' She is also responsible for lecturing a course on Cybernetics Systems-Oriented Design. Her research interests include Design Research Sustainability, Design Education Sustainability, and Open-ended Design, exploring the implications of error-proneness and the aesthetics of imperfection in product design.