About
As a design producer, I’m interested in how creative process is informed, interrogated, and communicated. My background is in human-centered product design, information architecture, and media production. I have worked with a diverse range of practitioners, serving clients across many industries over the past 25 years. My focus now, as a creative partner at Big Dreams, is applying this work in the climate tech innovation space.
I was born in Warsaw, Poland and emigrated to Providence, Rhode Island during elementary school, which gave me a multicultural perspective and curiosity that makes learning about other people’s customs and behaviors endlessly fascinating. This outlook extends to discovering the natural world and how we as a species choose to inhabit it. My goal is to continue weaving these interests in service of developing sustainable products, regenerative systems and equitable economies.
For more, read my backstory.
TEACHING
2018 Emerge: Experience Design Workshop, at Design x RI
2017 Civic Impact Through Sensor-Driven Design, RISD / Industrial Design
2014 Product Management for UX Designers Workshop, RISD / Industrial Design
2006 Video for Journalism Workshop, Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
2005 Advanced Photoshop, RISD / Continuing Education
2004 Final Cut Pro 1, FCP 3 Intensive, Advanced Photoshop, RISD / Continuing Education
TALKS
2023 Protoyping for Strategy, Innovation and Design, SPLOT Institute, Warsaw, Poland (available on YouTube)
2019 Interactive Environment: From Concept to Reality, Academy of Fine Art, Katowice, Poland
2019 Interactive Environment: From Concept to Reality, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
2019 Applied Futures, AGRAFA Conference, Katowice, Poland
2018 Envisioning Design Futures, Rhode Island CIO Forum
2017 Applied Futures, Epic Decade Ideas Salon with Seth Goldenberg, Rhode Island
AWARDS
2023 Silver Cabin Award at Aircraft Interiors Expo, Hamburg
2021 Best Pavilion (Large Pavilion category) at Exhibitor Magazine’s World Expo Awards
2021 Gold Medal (Spatial Communication category) at the Golden Award of
2021 Gold (Brand Communication – Fairs & Exhibitions) at the German Brand Awards
2018 Silver Muse Award, American Alliance of Museums
2011 Honorable Mention at Los Angeles Art-house Film Festival
2008 First Place Award – Open Juried Photography Annual, South County Art Assn.
2007 Second Place Award – Photography Open, Warwick Museum of Art