Work

Leadership & coaching

• Chair of the board of trustees of Mediale a digital arts organisation based in Selby (2021-)
• On the board of advisors of Working Class Creatives (2024-)
• Trustee for The Restart Project who advocate for ‘right to repair’ legislation (2020-25)
• Advisor to various founders and startups like Trackener, Olitool and others.

Climate change

• Initiator of Low Carbon Design Institute (2019-) exploring how creative people can respond to the climate crisis through residencies, events and live briefs.
• Business development for the Energy Systems Catapult Living Lab (2025-26)
• Facilitator for Low Carbon Chinatown event by Ling Tan at Science Gallery London (2025)
• Research on climate tech startups for the Tony Blair Institute’s presence at COP 28 (2023)
• London Project Lead for Library of Things, a social enterprise helping people borrow instead of own useful household objects (2020-2021)
• Research on Croatia’s energy grid for Dark Matter Labs (2021)
• Research for Overlay a green fintech startup incubated by ING Labs (2019-2020) during which I helped make the case to MHCLG that the UK’s EPC register should be made open
• Head of Labs at Bulb Energy Grew a team of 4 to work across electric vehicle charging, V2G, home batteries, flexibility markets, smart meters and other emerging areas (2018-2019)
• External Reviewer for Agro-IT, a Horizon 2020 funded project around smart agriculture (2015-17)
• Developed Made Near You in collaboration with Phil Gyford to map local food producers (2016)
• Innovator-at-large for Wintec Innovate, an industry-facing agritech research facility at the Waikato Institute of Technology in New Zealand (2014-6)
• Organised a showcase of 40 startups in the energy sector for Centrica’s mergers and acquisitions group (2013) 
• Overseeing the electronics design and Chinese manufacturing support for the first Current Cost Bridge a home energy display that posted data to Google Powermeter (2009-10)
• Developed Homesensea pan-European open innovation project to explore bottom-up smart homes in collaboration with EDF R&D. Included in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (2009-10)
• Design of three workshops with EDF R&D to get their teams to explore new home energy management experiences (2007-2009)
• Intern for the RED team at the Design Council looking at energy management in UK households (2005)

 

Tech ethics

• NGI Policy-in-practice fund grantee on a project with BBC R&D advancing their work on Human Values. Shortlisted for a 2023
  IBC Social Impact Award (2020-21)
• Shepherded Better IoT an international community-led effort to build startup-focused tools for more ethical and secure internet of things design (2017-)
• Part of the Board of advisors for the Virt-EU project (2017-19)
• Co-founder of The Good Home, a collaborative exploration of the future of home living (2015-2017)
• Organised and coordinated a workshop capturing design processes of #iot startups with Studio Dott(2016)
• Contributed to a white paper on cyber security by Chatham House (2013)
• Contributed to a white paper on the internet of things for the Digital Policy Alliance (2013)

 

Smart homes & cities

• Smarter Homes: how technology will change your home life (Apress, 2018)
• Collaborated with The Waving Cat & Stefanie Prosavecto produce a global analysis of the smart city landscape for Nominet R&D (2016)
• Trend reports on the internet of things and its application in education, farming and smart cities for Nominet R&D (2015)
• Designed a small publication on city life for the Microsoft Social Symposium (2010)
• Contributed to scenario for the life of a designer and her connected objects in 2020 for Tom Klinkowstein (2007)

 

Design 

• Design Director at TPXimpact reporting to the CDO and helping manage a team of 120 digital designers.
• Member of the Future Observatory Programme Development Group (AHRC) (2020)
• Design and commercialisation of Good Night Lamp (2005-2019)
• On jury of the Braun Prize  (2018)
• Produced a report on the impact of the internet of things for a US health insurance company (2017)
• Mentor-in-residence at the Startupbootcamp IoT Connected Devices accelerator (2016-17)
• Produced a report on the possible impact of the internet of things for a US industrial company and an international fast moving goods company (2016)
• Developed Know Cards with Tina Aspiala, a set of cards to help you explore the internet of things (2016- )
• Produced a report for  BBC North Lab exploring the perceived future value of the internet of things and the readiness of the business across the whole of the BBC (2015)
• Designed scarves for single people and made a series of prototypes with Alexandra Järup (2011)
• Project management & logistics for smart Christmas 3D-printed product FRSTEE (2011)
• Identity design for Historytag an identity system for Huit, a Wales-based jeans company (2011)
• Project management of exploratory project with Nokia Advanced Labs team in Los Angeles.(2011)
• Overseeing the manufacturing of the Big Red Button for Russell Davies, now in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) (2009)
• Overseeing the build of next generation screen experiences for the BBC’s North Lab team (2009)
• Overseeing the build of interactive installations for a range of marketing campaigns for brands such as Sony Bravia, Nokia, Wired, National Geographic (2008)
• Overseeing the build of a smart picture frame for David Hockney’s paintings for the Evening Standard Editor’s office (2008)
• Designed constantsetting.com a site which showed you an image of the sun setting right now, no matter where in the world in collaboration with D’Arcy Saum (2006-2019)
• Production of Topoware, a tableware collection with jewellery designer Karola Torkos which was exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair (2007)

 Innovation

• Assessor for EIT Digital & Fintech funds (2017-18)
• Assessor for Innovate UK & AHRC (2010-2019)
• Contributed to policy recommendation papers by the Worshipful Society of Information Technologists and the British Computing Society (2014)
• Researched the landscape of UK internet of things startups and their requirements for the new Digital Catapult to help shape its service offer (2013) (images)

 

Education and executive training

• I ran a digital training session on the internet of things as part of the ISDI MIB program (2017)
• Ran a business workshop for creatives at Waterman’s Gallery (2018)
• Ran a 3 day academic training introducing BA & MA professors to the internet of things for the Technology Institute of Monterrey in Mexico (2017)
• Ran a  3 day intense practical internet of things manufacturing workshop in Berlin & Norway (2017)
• Design and organisation of the first UK Intel Edison workshop (2015)
• Ran public and corporate Arduino workshops around the world (2007-2010)

 

Community building & events

• Curated and organising Papercamp
• Member of the jury on STARTS Ars Electronica Prize 2021
• Organise and curate the London Internet of Things Meetup.It is the second largest dedicated meetup in the world (2011-)
• Co-curated and organised Making it!? a half day on making and success in Liverpool (2018)
• Curated Bosch’s first internet of things developer event in Berlin (2015)
• Co-curator of the Dublin Science Gallery Home/Sick exhibition (2015)
• MC of the EDF Pretty Curious event at the Science Museum (2015)
• Acted as dissemination parter for the Eyehub project, a UK funded internet of things project (2014)
• Acted as dissemination partner for Lirec.eu a EU funded FP7 project on social robotics (2009-2013)
• Curated and ran a Christmas internet of things pop-up shop in our office in East London (2013)
• Production of the first two London Mozilla Festival (2012-2013)

 

Misc

• Wrote ‘Back to Business’ (fiction) for Two Weeks Time (May 2020)
• I maintain a digital archive of my alma mater the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (2019-)