Ioana Man is a designer and researcher in biodesign and bioeconomy value chains. Her work focuses on how biotechnology can transform economies, manufacturing and the built environment. Her experience ranges from product development, sustainability and manufacturing strategy, biotech strategic advisory, design of spaces and objects, all the way through to curation, exhibition design, and stakeholder engagement.

She is the Design Lead at Faber Futures, an agency that operates at the intersection of design, biotechnology and society to engage industry, institutions and brands with alternative models for innovation. Projects developed and delivered with Faber Futures include ongoing Project Coelicolor R&D, Normal Phenomena of Life, BIOSTORIES and Museum of Symbiosis.

She is a Unit Master at the Architectural Association, teaching a design unit that unpacks the interactions between architecture, technology and cultural imaginaries.

hello@ioanaman.com