Hi, I'm Carrie.

I'm a design researcher and design futurist.

I'm always asking questions, questions that help me understand purpose, people's culture & experience, and the tough "what ifs" that challenge current assumptions about how the world works.

This drives everything I've trained in and built: studying contemporary jewellery at CSM where we constantly challenged the boundaries of wearable objects; running a jewellery practice for seven years, testing multidisciplinary work in commercial markets; then studying Design Futures at RCA, where I found how design research, systems thinking, and futures methods can help navigate uncertainty and design for the long term.

Growing up between 3 mega-cities (Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and London) gave me an early sense of how differently people can think, value, and communicate. I find myself naturally translating between people from different disciplines and backgrounds, not just understanding each perspective but helping them understand each other. In my multidisciplinary teams experience, I'm always the one who stay close to every member and take action when I see gaps opening up between design, research and development.

That same instinct carries into how I research. Rather than observing from a distance, I participate. When researching the future of housing production in London, I volunteered in community building activities, working alongside participants, talking to community organisers and experts building neighbourhood participatory capacity. Being inside that world changed what I found and what I proposed.

The questions that keep coming back to me: why do our current systems exclude meaningful contribution from the people most affected, and how can we change that?