N°14 - Speculative Design, IOT & Cultures of Innovation with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is an author, consultant, public speaker, entrepreneur and designer living in London.

She is the author of Creating a Culture of Innovation and Smarter Homes

She is the founder of the Low Carbon Design Institute, a residency for creative people focused on climate change.

She was named 1st in a list of 100 Internet of Things Influencers (Postscapes, 2016), 2nd in Top 100 Internet of Things Thought Leaders (Onalytica, 2014) and in the Top 100 Influential Tech Women on Twitter (Business Insider, 2014). She’s been included in the long-list of Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in Tech in the UK in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

She studied industrial design at the University of Montreal and interaction design at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.

You can find her work at designswarm

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