Simone Rebaudengo

Bio

Simone Rebaudengo is an interaction designer and researcher based in Shanghai, where he consults for international clients like Philips, Nike and Goggle Creative Labs on future connected products and experiences and where he researches future relationships with emerging technology with his design collective automato.farm. In his previous career he used to work at frog jumping between Fortune 500 clients and small startups across Europe, Asia and Australia and used to collaborate with Usman Haque and Pachube trying to install an “addicted toaster” in the office of the British prime minister. His work focuses on exploring the implications of living with networked, smart and autonomous systems. Sometimes they are real products, sometimes they are fictional. Simone is also Visiting Lecturer at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and has been lecturing and talking at international conferences like Tedx, IxDA, SolidCon, Thingscon and Dconstruct. His works have been published internationally on Wired, Fast Company, The Atlantic and Designboom, awarded by Core77, Interaction Awards and Internet of Things Awards and exhibited in galleries and museums like Vitra Design Museum and MAK Vienna.