Alexis Hope Biography

Alexis is a designer and researcher based at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Center for Civic Media. Hope is also a part of the Industrial Design community at Massachusetts College of Art & Design. TEN FWD is the home of her creative practice. Hope focuses on creating playful experimental objects and experiences with a combination of design research digital tools and hand fabrication. TEN FWD's flagship project is FOLD an open publishing platform that helps people and organizations tell complex stories in a visually striking way. As part of TEN FWD Hope also works with Facebook's Connectivity Lab to prototype novel experiences that encourage face-to-face interaction and connection. Hope's earlier work focused on technology for global health. Prior to joining MIT she led a project to develop a portable low-cost ultrasound machine for midwives in Kenya Uganda and Seattle. She was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow from 2012 - 2015 focusing on bringing human-centered and participatory research methods to technology design. As part of her commitment to participatory design she helps organize unique hackathons and civic technology workshops around the world.

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