In Case of Turbulence: Open Source Hardware's Next Challenges

Alexandra was born in Montreal, Canada, but grew up in Paris and the Middle East. Returning to Canada, she first completed a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design at the Universite de Montréal only to move back to Europe to complete a Master’s degree in Interaction Design at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.

She has been involved as a strategic designer and interaction design on project for clients such as Jaiku, Thinglink, Blast Radius, fo.am and Blyk before moving to London and becoming co-founding and CEO of technology and design consultancy Tinker.

She is also an active conference speaker on the next generation industrial design, ubiquitous computing and implications of open source hardware in the design world.

Based in London and Milan, Tinker supports creative minds and projects with technological implementation and world class knowhow in the areas of interaction design for interactive marketing, interactive lighting and retail environments, exhibition design. Since its beginnings Tinker have been involved with clients such as Artemide, Syneo, Icon Media Lab, YCN, Ico design and Accenture.

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