I design, teach and speculate. My work moves between Industrial Design and critical inquiry, shaped by extended detours through Germany, the UK, Japan and Switzerland. I’m interested in how design can do more than solve problems, how it can expand what we imagine as possible within the entangled relationships between humans, non-humans, technologies and ecologies.
As Head of the Master's and Research programme in Industrial Design at Zurich University of the Arts, I’ve built a curriculum that emphasises experimental, research-led and transdisciplinary design practice.
For over a decade, I’ve been exploring the space where design meets technology. In 2014, I co-founded the London office of Japanese innovation firm Takram, working with Toyota, Tamron, MIT Media Lab, and Moovel Lab on new products, services and interactions that sometimes made sense and sometimes didn’t, but always taught us something.
My projects have been showcased internationally at prestigious venues such as the Saint-Étienne Biennale, London Design Festival, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Vienna Biennale and Mudac Lausanne, where my work is part of the permanent collection. I’ve worked on commissions by Dunne & Raby for Not Here, Not Now, as well as for Meinjong's Jungle. My own curatorial projects include exhibitions such as Scenes Unseen in London and Expanding Design in Zurich.
I’ve taught at institutions including the Royal College of Art London and frequently contribute to conversations on design and education through lectures, panels and workshops.
I hold a Master’s in Design Interactions (2012–14) from the Royal College of Art London and a BA in Industrial Design (2008–12) from the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel.
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