Work highlights since 2007. There's more but it'll do for now. I can be reached on my website https://www.designswarm.com/contact/

1. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Education:
Industrial &
interaction design

2. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
The Silicon Roundabout years
Tinker London
12 people
Some clients:
Arup
BBC R&D
EDF
Samsung
National Geographic
Evening Standard
Wired US

3. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
What we did
Introduce the Arduino
as an ideation tool in design
Build prototypes for R&D
Manufacturing support
Highlight:
MoMA (NYC) exhibits and acquires
two projects

4. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
The community building years
Internet of Things
Meetup
13K members
Highlights:
Hosts all over London
City Hall exhibition
‘the meetup that launched a
thousand startups’
- Ben Evans, BleepBleeps

5. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
The startup years
Good Night Lamp
Highlights:
Manufactured in the UK
Acquired by the London Design
Museum as a key example of the
internet of things.

6. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Ethics
Virt-EU
BetterIoT
BBC Human Values
Highlights:
Used by Bosch to shape their
approaches to open source
Funding from Nesta

7. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Thought leadership
Books on design,
technology and
architecture.
Smarter Homes (Apress, 2018)
Creating a culture of innovation
(Apress, 2020)
The Little Book of Public Space
and the internet of things (UCL,
2021)

8. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Climate work
Research, sales,
partnerships & project
management
Bulb Energy
Overlay (ING Labs)
Library of Things
Superflux & IKEA

9. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Climate work right now
Design Council
Leadership role,
curation, partnerships.
Highlight:
3.5K online during the Design
for Planet Festival 2022

10. designswarm | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
There’s more
but that’ll do for now.
Questions?