Tessa Steenkamp

Tessa Steenkamp is an interaction designer and urbanist. With her design studio Bits of Space, Steenkamp gives shape to the relationships and interactions between people, technology and built environment. This is necessary, because the digital and physical have long since ceased to be parallel – and often even get in each other’s way. Previously, Tessa set up ‘OpenStad’ at the municipality of Amsterdam: a programme for online tools for a more interactive, local democracy. She also worked as a designer at Umbrellium in London, and was an experience designer at UNSense, the technology startup of architecture firm UNStudio.