Bio
Isabelle Dechamps is a social designer and design researcher based near Lucerne, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. Her work explores how mindful and compassionate design practices can support collective learning, inclusion, and eco-social transformation.
She is a PhD scholar in the Eco-Social Transformation by Design programme and part of the Research Group Transformation Design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), where she also teaches in the MA Design programme.
Isabelle designs and facilitates participatory processes across diverse contexts, with a focus on inclusive, embodied, and reflective practices.
She is part of _be able_, an inclusive design collective she initiated in 2010, as well as the _Global Innovation Gathering (GIG)_ network, and the emerging community initiative _Naturkloster_, which is transforming a former monastery into a space for ecological regeneration, community life, and contemplative practice.
She is a Zen practitioner and practices yoga, with a particular interest in how awareness of body, mind, and interconnected systems can inform more conscious ways of co-creating futures.
