Philippe's experience as an industrial designer and worldly traveler took him to far corners around the world. He speaks seven languages fluently and has worked and travelled extensively in over ninety countries. He sees human centered design as a powerful tool to abate issues arising from underserved communities around the world, in both wealthy and low-resource countries. 

Philippe is a dynamic networker, promoter, educator, and event organizer in the design industry.

Chris brings acquired business and design experience from operating a design consultancy in Vancouver, Canada. He studied industrial design at Emily Carr University (ECUAD), and worked on design projects for rural, equatorial communities.

Chris is an active contributor to all aspects of DesignAid, and is driven to facilitate positive change in the world we inhabit.

Joao-Paulo grew up in Portugal and Luxembourg, and studied architecture in Belgium. After working for several years for various firms, he launched his own architectural agency carvalho architects.

Joao-Paulo is leading the architectural components on humanitarian housing and social habitat projects and is a strong networker in the architecture industry. 

Alex believes that design is as much about making life a pleasurable and inspiring journey as it is about making sure we as a network of beings can live harmoniously.

Evolving culture, finding your craft, utilizing renewable resources, open source communication, living in rhythm with nature and creating nourishing abundant whole foods are all entry points Alex acts on and shares in joining the harmonious rhythm.

François is a Belgian born architect, and is deeply involved in thought processes and critical thinking.

His passion for contributing architectural knowledge and design thinking to humanitarian capacity led him to travelling remote places around the world.

Satyan is an Industrial Designer who was involved in a project dealing with disaster relief early in his design studies. It was this design issue that changed his whole perspective on design as a discipline. Design that enables people has ever since been a focus and mission.

Inspired by craft, design and a constant curiosity about technology and its accessibility, Satyan is interested in finding solutions that provide tools to help communities empower themselves. 

Sandra has a background in culture and arts. Her degree in Philosophy and her passion for the performative and contemporary arts made her experience different ways, as educator, performer and producer.  

Back in 2005, she started a new professional life in the business industry.

Krystyna Dul is a Polish photographer based in Luxembourg, focused on lifestyle and documentary photography. In 2011 in cooperation with Keven Erickson she has created photography brand Lala La Photo specialized in children photography. After graduating from political science and journalism in Poland, since 2013 she has been studying ‘Creative Photography’ at the Silesian University in Czech Republic. Currently she is co-operating with Maison Moderne and Edition Guy Binsfeld – magazines and books publishers in Luxembourg and LensModern, a photography print gallery based in London, UK.

Keven Erickson is a Luxembourgish photographer specialised in documentary and portrait photography. He graduated in photography from Solent University, UK. Together with Polish photographer Krystyna Dul they created LaLa La Photo in Luxembourg specialized in children photography. Currently he is co-operating with Maison Moderne, a magazine publisher in Luxembourg and his work is represented by LensModern. Some projects include a photo series about a travelling Chinese opera troupe, an orphanage in Laos and a series of portraits depicting internally displaced children from Abkhazia in Georgia.

Sandra Petersson

Interior Designer // former Intern

Karl Reinholtz

Industrial Designer // former Intern

Stina Persson

Design student // former Volunteer