Dr Mona Nasseri

Mona led the MA Ecological Design Thinking programme at Schumacher College and served as the Head of Research as well.

As a researcher herself, she has been collaborating with interdisciplinary and international research teams on various participatory projects, primarily related to food, land, and water in East and West Africa. Her primary responsibility is to engage local communities in co-designing pathways for change, ensuring that local problems are addressed through local wisdom.

Mona has a background in craft and design. After completing an undergraduate degree in Craft and Material Culture at the University of Art in Tehran, Iran, she earned an MDes and PhD in Design at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Her doctoral thesis explores the role of an unmediated relationship with the environment in the evolution of human consciousness. Mona’s aspiration is to reintegrate the embodied and relational aspects of craft practice into regenerative design processes, particularly within participatory approaches to Transition.