We are very proud to announce our first official speaker: she’s really an extraordinary person and we are lucky to have her as guest at Frontiers, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO and Co-Founder of Tinker!
It’s going be so great to have her in Rome the 4th of June because:
Alexandra was born in Montreal, Canada, but grew up mostly in Europe and the Middle East. After completing a Bachelor’s in Industrial Design at the Universite de Montreal, she moved to Italy to complete a Master’s degree in Interaction Design at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.
She worked in Europe and was involved in projects for clients such as Nokia, Motorola, Droog design, Thinglink, Jaiku, Blast Radius, fo.am and Blyk bringing creative and strategic leadership to multi-disciplinary teams before relocating to London to set up the design consultancy Tinker! with the co-founder of the Arduino platform Massimo Banzi. Tinker! has built interactive products and spaces for the likes of Artemide, Whirlpool, National Geographic Store, Arup and Accenture.
In the past years she has been an active speaker on issues surrounding interaction design and how design will evolve out of it’s current top down state into a de-centralised model of empowerment and DIY problem-solving with the help of new technologies.
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Siamo felici di annunciarvi ufficialmente il nome del nostro primo ospite, una persona davvero straordinaria che siamo fortunati ad avere con noi a Frontiers: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO and Co-Founder di Tinker!
Ecco una presentazione di Alexandra, da cui si evincono i motivi per cui sarà tanto interessante incontrarla a Roma il 4 giugno:
Alessandra è nata a Montreal, in Canada, ed è cresciuta tra l’Europa e l’Asia. Dopo essersi laureata all’università di Montreal in Industrial Design si è spostata in Italia per conseguire il Master in Interaction Design all’Università d’Ivrea.
Ha lavorato in Europa e ha collaborato a progetti con clienti del calibro di Nokia, Motorola, Droog design, Thinglink, Jaiku, Blast Radius, fo.am and Blyk, mettendo la sua leadership creativa e strategica a disposizione di team multidisciplinari; si è poi stabilita a Londra per fondare l’agenzia di design consultancy Tinker! insieme a Massimo Banzi, co-fondatore della piattaforma Arduino.
Tinker ha prodotto oggetti e ambienti interattivi per Whirlpool, National Geographic Store, Arup and Accenture.
Negli scorsi anni è stata estremamente attiva come speaker; in questa veste si è occupata di interaction design, di come il design si evolverà dal suo modello attuale (top-down) verso un sistema decentralizzato, e infine di DIY problem-solving attraverso l’uso delle nuove tecnologie.
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