Alessio Franconi is a designer and researcher at the Royal College of Art, London, where he works within the Design Futures programme in the School of Design.
His work combines co-design, systems thinking and design for sustainability. He holds a PhD in Design Sciences from the University Iuav of Venice.
Alessio was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Rochester Institute of Technology and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He created circulardesign.it, an open source platform for circular design strategies, and co-manages the Circular Design Forum, a network of over 180 experts.