LENI PIECH

I was born in 1993 in Vienna. Visual aesthetics and functionality have fascinated me since childhood. Having completed my IB including Visual Arts at Higher Level, I decided to undergo higher education with an emphasis on design. I completed my Bachelor Degree in Product Design at Central Saint Martins in London with honors. In my Masters Thesis in Innovation Management, I focused on the notion of ‘feminist worlding’, which proposes to embrace radical ‘otherness’ by stepping out of human realities and delving into non-human worlds. My investigation aimed towards bridging the concept of feminist worlding with social innovation – challenging social innovation to tap into territories of ‘unknown unknowns’ and consequently, unfolding paths for more open, complex and diverse future imaginaries.