WORK EXPERIENCE

NESTA - Designer

Since December 2022
Nesta is the UK’s innovation agency for social good. I am part of the Sustainable Future mission team with the ambition to reduce households’ carbon emissions by 28%, by 2030.

• Led discovery projects on data-driven use cases and the future of the heating industry.
• Supported the design and delivery of live services to accelerate UK home decarbonisation.
• Conducted user research to identify opportunities for Generative AI in the skills domain.
• Planned and conducted user research for various projects
• Delivered strategic solutions to start-ups based on customer research insights.
• Commissioned and managed external agencies to build websites.
  

EDF Pulse Explorer - Design researcher 

August 2020 - March 2021
EDF design lab dedicates itself to explore tomorrow’s usage.

• Led discovery work, experience design, and supported prototyping for a smart home device to reduce energy consumption.
  
• Designed innovative services combining diverse expertise across EDF’s group (e.g., GIS analysis, transport, renewables’ installations, and data centre creation).

Strategic Design Scenarios - Social designer 

January-July 2019
[SDS] is a design lab, based in Brussels [Belgium], trying to solve societal issues through social & public innovation, responsible research & innovation and desirable futures.

• Contributed to the VILCO action-research programme by conducting design research and fostering community engagement during the experimentation phase, co-designing and testing local solutions to improve citizen-local authority collaboration in Brussels.
  
• Assisted with the curation of “Lille Design Capital 2020,” highlighting local initiatives and third spaces across the territory.
  
• Designed and facilitated workshops for various clients, including universities, public organisations, and government bodies (e.g., future visioning, game design).
  
• Produced a range of resources such as videos, books, visuals, and games to support client and partner projects.

September 2021 - December 2021
Collaboration with the Alice Austen House Museum to reimagine a trailblazing 19th-century photographer’s home as a community anchor in Staten Island.

• Led historical research to understand the story of the place
• Supported urban analysis and mapping to identify potential sites for redevelopment
• Participated in ethnographic research in Staten Island and on various site of queer history in NYC
• Co-design of solutions for community engagement and placemaking
• Creation of visuals to illustrate our recommendations to the client in a report

May 2021 - September 2021
Collaboration with the National Science Museum of Thailand in Bangkok. Team manager for the creation of a mobile exhibition on the topic of science communication.


September 2017
Artist’s assistant of Barthelemy Togo (Lelong Art Gallery) for an exhibition at the Beaubourg Museum, Paris. Production of tools to decorate the walls of the exhibition.

June-July 2017
Internship at the Art Gallery ANALIX Forever, Paris-Geneva. Worked on multiple installations of exhibition, produced visual and written content for various platform (digital and print).

June-July 2014
Intern at ARTVISIONS, Web Art TV (Paris). Content creator and video production assistant.

EDUCATION

Semptember 2019 - 2022
MA/MSc “Global Innovation Design” at the Royal College of Art and at the Imperial College London.
Master dissertation awarded Distinction.

Exchange programs:

• Fall 2021 — Pratt Institute (New York), master of Industrial Design.
  

• Spring 2021 — Keio University (Tokyo), department of Media Design.
  

• Fall 2018 — Parsons School of Design (New York), urban studies.

September 2015 - 2018
Bachelor degree in industrial and furniture design from Ecole Nationale supérieure des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD), (Paris, France).


June 2015 - Scientific Baccalauréat

2008-2014
Part-time studies in classical and lyrical singing at the choir of Notre-Dame de Paris and Radio France.

RESIDENCIES

August 2025

Architecture studio led by Urban_Think_Tank_Next at the Summer Academy of Salzburg. Our project Salzburg SPLASH! was awarded 2nd prize for 100 Ideas for the Performative Cities.

June 2018
Collaboration with craftmen in Lomé, Togo (West Africa) at the Club des Métiers d’Arts et d’Artisanat du Togo.

July 2018
Summer School at the Angewandte school of applied arts  (Vienna, Austria) on ‘Social Design for Urban Interventions’.

August 2017
Salzburg’s Summer Academy of Fine Art in the course of the artist Michael Beutler.

June 2017
Workshop at the «Domaine de Boisbuchet» about bamboo (Lessac, France).

PRESS & EXHIBIT

March 2025 — Speaker at Digital leaders’ Impact and Awarwad Summit

Installer show 2023, 2024 — Representing Nesta, the UK innovation agency for social good, at the annual heating and electricity. fair in the UK

June 2022 — Graduation show at the Royal College of Art and Imperial college, London.

Jan 2022 — “Amplifying an Unsung Site of Queer History on Staten Island”, Article

June 2019 —  “Remise en main(s) propre(s)”, collective exhibition at Comfort Mental, Paris. Exhibition’s website

Jan 2018 — C4s European Creative Project Link - Video

VOLUNTEERING

September-July 2017
Member of the Student Association at ENSAD (university), external communication manager.

September-June 2017
Member of the PSL Choir (Paris Sciences et Lettres University), Paris.

September-December 2017
Volunteer at the social restaurant Taf’é Maffé in Saint-Denis

Physical prototyping • Digital prototyping • Video making • Participatory methods • Placemaking Future visioning • Service design • User research • System mapping