Dr. Francesco Mazzarella is a design researcher, educator, and activist striving to plant seeds of hope and change, especially working with marginalized communities. Francesco is a Reader in Design
Jessica is a design and craft professional based in Edinburgh. She works at Creative Scotland in the Creative Industries team to support the development of sustainable creative businesses nationally,
Jennifer is an Architect on a mission to improve people’s lives through exemplary progressive architecture. Jennifer is co-founder of O’DonnellBrown, a Glasgow-based practice working on retrofit
Jonathan trained as a product designer and has designed consumer products as diverse as toys and toilet seats as well as industrial products for the oil, fishing and forestry sectors. Jonathan now
Marie Williams is a playful chartered engineer, design lecturer, TedX speaker and CEO of Dream Networks. Her design practice is situated in co-designing playful, regenerative, and culturally
Valentina D'Efilippo, an award-winning designer, creative director, and author, is renowned for her ability to inspire, move, and connect people through data-driven experiences. Her work includes the
Paul has made a career exploring the impact of sustainability agendas on how we think about and do design via modes of practice that are explicitly social and take design (and designers) into new
Indy is co-founder of Dark Matter Labs and of the RIBA award-winning architecture and urban practice Architecture00. He is also a founding director of Open Systems Lab, seeded WikiHouse (open source
Tom has spent over 20 years working in the fields of learning design and social innovation, with a focus on children, young people, and communities. His work has spanned a broad range of contexts,
Joanna founded van Heyningen and Haward Architects with Birkin Haward in 1982. She was involved on all van Heyningen and Haward’s award-winning buildings, including those for higher education
