Stephanie Hankey
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Tactical Tech

Stephanie Hankey

  • Berlin Science Week
  • 2024
  • Moderator

Stephanie Hankey is a designer, technologist, and curator with 25 years experience exploring the social, political, and environmental impacts of technology on society. She co-founded Tactical Tech in 2003, a leading international NGO working at the forefront of culture and public education on technology and civil society, with interventions hosted in over 70 countries. Stephanie has served as a Senior Strategy Advisor to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, is an expert on the Design Council's "Design for Planet and People" agenda, and mentors projects under the New European Bauhaus. A Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, she was awarded an Ashoka Fellowship for her work as a social entrepreneur. Her curatorial work has included award winning projects such as The Glass Room and Technologies of Hope and Fear and her work has been shown at the Vennice Architecture Biennale. Currently, she directs Tactical Techs work on climate, is a dual Professor at the Design School of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and she holds a Master's in Computer-Related Design from the Royal College of Art, London.