Experience

ArkDes Think Tank

• Sweden
• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Lead

  • Feb 2022 - Present



Het Nieuwe Instituut

• Netherlands
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Manager Design and Architecture

  • Jan 2021 - Feb 2022

  Curate and produce inspiring programmes and creative formats, responding to recent developments in design, architecture, digital culture and social movements. Establish collaborative partnerships with organisations, architects, designers, media partners and users. Network, develop and promote architecture, design and digital culture.Employ strategic design to expand upon multivocality as a guiding organisational principle. Promote internal seminars and collaborate with external experts in diversity and inclusion. Develop effective project plans including budget schedules and contracts with partners. Produce programmes in accordance with budget projections. Write project reports and implement key take aways in organisational progress. Complete subsidy applications. Show less

• Project Leader - New Material Award

  • Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

  Managed the repository of a decade of material design, as well as contextualising the horizontal lines and larger themes that emerged from the nominees in a soon-to-be announced form. Organised on- and offline publication including 117 nominees, interviews and image documentation. Commissioned and edited interviews, writing and design and podcast.



Design Academy Eindhoven

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Tutor Bachelor Design

  • Sep 2017 - Feb 2022

  Teach design methodology course for propaedeutic year, centring climate breakdown, social theory/reflexivity and implicit biases in design. Contribute to critical and intersectional learning community with peer tutors. Recognised as highest ranked teacher in 2019 student survey.

• Programme Manager at The Arena

  • Jul 2018 - Nov 2020

  Supervised, managed and moderated panels on design, architecture and societal shifts in collaboration with interdisciplinary practitioners, prominent professionals and politicians to increase audience engagement. Responsible for increasing quality and accessibility of Arena by coordinating presentations, film screenings, panels and performative work. Managed communication, scheduling and budget. Mentored presenters to improve accessibility of talks, performances, presentations and panel content.

• Producer at The Arena

  • Jul 2017 - Jun 2018

  Organized presentations, film screenings, panels and performative work for Arena. Managed volunteers, stage technology and schedules.



Van Abbemuseum

• Netherlands
• Museums
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Constituent Curator

  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2020

  Built long-lasting relationships with local communities and citizens and developed pilot projects to diversify knowledge and implement inclusive strategies within curatorial practices. Programmed events and explored new formats for engagement with colleagues and external partners. Directed artistic project ‚The Living Room‘ with asylum seekers, enabling them to activate museum space, host visitors and share their stories as city residents.Secured and led institutional participation in nationwide collaboration of 5-year scientific research program, ‘The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking & Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces’. Built e-learning materials for mediation dept. of museum confederation L’internationale. Show less

• Coordinator Public Programme - Queering the Collection

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2019

  Programmed and developed formats together with members of queer communities in Eindhoven. Innovated mediation tool to layer and challenge existing museum narratives with perspectives from queer communities, designed as wearable garments. Created Queer Sign Glossary in collaboration with Dutch Sign Centre and University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.



Reloading Technology Exhibition

• Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

• Curator

  • Mar 2017 - Jun 2018

  Analysed budget, prepared contracts and commissioned new work from artists and designers. Developed curatorial concept, exploring issues and opportunities of technological innovation. Managed a team of producers, graphic designers and technicians. Analysed budget, prepared contracts and commissioned new work from artists and designers. Developed curatorial concept, exploring issues and opportunities of technological innovation. Managed a team of producers, graphic designers and technicians.



Dutch Design Week

• Netherlands
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Moderator and Producer of DDW Talks

  • Mar 2017 - Nov 2017

  Curated and moderated a public programme to introduce complex design topics to a broad audience. Collaborated with top inter/national designers to develop interactive presentation formats, increasing audience participation. Curated and moderated a public programme to introduce complex design topics to a broad audience. Collaborated with top inter/national designers to develop interactive presentation formats, increasing audience participation.



Design Academy Eindhoven

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Editor and Moderator

  • Dec 2016 - Apr 2017

  Assisted in developing curatorial concept and assumed leading role in exhibition layout. Ensured safe social environment for all performing participants and moderated integral parts of the show.

• Coordinator of the Design Research Podcast

  • Jun 2016 - Nov 2016

  Coordinated podcast production during the Graduation Show 2016.



Dutch Design Week

• Netherlands
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Moderator of DDW Talks

  • Sep 2016 - Oct 2016



Design Academy Eindhoven

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Journalist, Reporter and Producer at Emma Radio

  • Sep 2013 - Apr 2015

  Developed a creative format to document and discuss the particulars of design during the Graduation Show 2013 and 2014, and for the Salone del Mobile, Milano 2014 and 2015. Developed a creative format to document and discuss the particulars of design during the Graduation Show 2013 and 2014, and for the Salone del Mobile, Milano 2014 and 2015.