Irina is a designer and researcher practicing the creative work of cross-sector translation, the strategic work of systems transition, and the ethical work of forging long-term allyship. ➞ irinavw.xyzShe grew up Taiwanese-Floridian and moved to the UK, where she started out as a student of typographic design at University of the Arts London and went on to join world-renowned studio Pentagram, leading identity design work for cultural sector clients like London Design Festival. Combining a love of letterforms, literature, and environmental philosophy, she also worked alongside linguists and various native communities to revitalize endangered languages, daydreaming on the TEDx stage about a different kind of role design might play in society. Recognizing that language / environmental / social justice are all one demand arising from shared systemic issues, Irina pursued an Industrial Design masters at Rhode Island School of Design to interrogate the role of artefacts in transdisciplinary change-making.At the intersection of existential risk and structural injustice, her work now spans equitable carbon sequestration, Indigenous futurity, stakeholder policymaking, and global security architecture. Such projects have involved: fabricating objects for peacemaking workshops with the United Nations; researching the limits of biomimicry for urban air mobility with Hyundai; developing a portfolio of interventions for nuclear threat reduction with the Center for Complexity. As a recent Fulbright scholar in Finland, she co-developed participatory research tools with scientists in the EU-funded CHARTER project to shed light on reindeer herders’ experience of climate change and their hopes for future Arctic governance. In addition to publishing in peer-reviewed journals, Irina’s writing and reporting has appeared in publications such as Vox and WIRED. She has co-authored the forthcoming “Futures” chapter of Routledge’s Sustainable Design textbook and co-edited RISD’s v.1 and Polycene Design Manual.