I design for the in-between spaces—where systems crack, where people are pushed aside, where care can still take form. My work explores how materials, especially discarded ones, can carry stories of exclusion, survival, and dignity. Using my background in materials science and industrial design, I rework urban leftovers—foam, tile, cardboard, cement—into public interventions that offer rest, friction, softness, or disruption.

I build furniture that doesn’t ask permission. Installations that look official but aren’t. Signage that tells the truth too bluntly to be ignored. I collaborate with community members, not as clients but as co-makers. I’m drawn to things that don’t last long, not because they’re weak, but because they speak to a different kind of permanence—one rooted in adaptation, not endurance.

Design isn’t neutral. It enforces who gets to stay, who gets pushed out, and what kind of comfort is allowed in public. I make work that questions those boundaries—inviting misuse, rethinking welcome, and transforming material waste into tools of resistance. This is care, smuggled into public space.