Alëna Iouguina

Ottawa Canada

Co-founder at Ecotonos Design + Manufacturing

Education

I hail from St. Petersburg in Russia, live in Ottawa, Canada and occasionally lecture at School of Industrial Design, Carleton University. I am a professional biologically informed designer with integral sustainable design perspective (behaviours, experiences, cultures, systems) and with nature as my muse. I am a communicator of biology and design and a co-founder of Ecotonos Design + Manufacturing. Specialties learning facilitator, project managing, biologically informed design, biomimicry, bionics, biomimetics, industrial design, design for manufacturing, integral sustainable design, interdisciplinary design, communication in science and design, public speaking