I’m an architect, designer and researcher working at the intersection of architecture, design, living systems, and critical technologies.

As Senior Lecturer in Information Experience Design (IED) at The Royal College of Art, my research explores the culture, practices, tools and economies of working and designing with living systems at different scales, ranging from experiences, products, architecture and urban ecologies. My work also looks at imagining and delivering possible futures to challenge and provoke discourses of future technological, social, cultural, political, economic and environmental issues.

My creative practice and research are also connected to my practice as an educator. Prior to joining IED, I was a Lecturer in Design Products at the RCA where I led the Design Futures pathway. Other previous roles include working as an Associate Lecturer at Interdisciplinary Studios at the MA in Biodesign at University of the Arts London, and working as Visiting Lecturer in the research cluster on Bio-integrated design at the Bartlett, School of Architecture at UCL. As part of UCL, I also worked as a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded NOTBAD project that looked into contemporary efforts against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) by developing new materials that could alter and improve health and the human microbiome. I also worked for two years as a teaching fellow in the School of Architecture at Newcastle University, where I co-tutored the Experimental Architecture studio.

I completed a PhD by creative practice at the School of Architecture, Newcastle University, which explored the use of living and semi-living matter in design contexts. The thesis Bio-material probes: Design engagements with living systems, is articulated by a series of interventions and projects that examine and probe how design practices change when micro-organisms are understood as design matter.

Through my work, I have collaborated with a number of artists, designers and scientists. I have had the opportunity to exhibit and participate in different art and design venues around the world including London, Tel Aviv, Helsinki, Edinburgh, Brussels, Montreal, Taipei, India and Tokyo.