My research revolves around creative processes with emerging materials including smart and biological materials and exploring designers’ unique contribution to multidisciplinary materials development. I have contributed to Material Driven Design (MDD) approach, i.e., design processes that depart from a material (e.g., bio-based alternatives, waste stream or by-products) and mentored several MDD projects. I developed digital tools to assist experience prototyping novel material composites for multidisciplinary communication and exploration of dynamic and performative qualities and would like to further explore what digital capabilities (e.g., digital twining, AI) can do for our understanding and exploration of everyday practices with, through, and around (novel) living materials, such as bacteria, fungi and algae (e.g., home fermentation, composting). 

Expertise area
Biobased and Living Materials
Material Driven Design 
Materials Experience Prototyping
CA - TR
Squad:
Sensory matters

What is your vision on education/coaching?
“As an educator, I am eager to support the next generation of designers in unlocking and showcasing the environmental, social and economic value of biodesign, an emerging design movement at the intersection of life sciences and (non-)human-computer interaction with the ambition to reproach nature this time for mutual benefit and collaboration rather than exploitation.” interaction with the ambition to reproach nature this time for mutual benefit and collaboration rather than exploitation.”

I believe that we [humans] are at a critical point in history, where we should rethink the responsibilities that come with our technological power.