A hybrid of anthropologist, urbanist and designer with a keen interest in designing futures-driven, equitable and creative solutions for the cities of tomorrow with a focus on humans and non-humans. A co-founder of two social impact startups in Kyrgyzstan (empowerment of female leadership through entrepreneurship) and Denmark (helping small businesses to integrate circular economy in their business models).Currently working on • a European project - MUSAE, setting up a People-Planet-Centred Factory Model, based on the Design Future Art-driven (DFA) method to integrate it into a (European) Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) network. The aim is to support collaboration between artists and companies to address future challenges in the food domain;• a PhD research, developing a futures-driven methodology to enhance urban design process for spatial equity;• a research project in Kyrgyzstan, creating and implementing U-SCAT (Urban Social Capital Assessment) tool to allow to measure social capital in urban communities.