KAMILA IżYKOWICZ
— futures designer, researcher, and internationally exhibited artist (MA Design Futures, RCA). She leads Futures Design, a practice blending research, storytelling, and design to explore how sensory experience shapes time, legacy, and social–ecological systems. Her projects have been showcased at Tate Modern, Dubai Futures Forum, Design Indaba, and major design weeks across Europe. Her awards include CERN’s Far Futuring Grand Challenge and the Creative Conscience Prize. She has published in academic journals and presented at institutions including Kingston University, Northumbria, the University at Buffalo, and the Royal College of Art, as well as with industry partners such as John Lewis Partnership.
Career Milestones
2024–Present
2022–2024
2019–2021
2017–2019
2017-2007
Founded Futures Design, an independent practice, with AuraForest showcased at the Dubai Future Forum 2025.
Co-founded Dziedziniec Rydgiera, a design-led hostel and café in Wrocław (Pl), shaping its vision, brand, and spatial design.
Futures Designer at the John Lewis Partnership, providing actionable foresight through analysis, storytelling, and prototyping to support long-term strategic thinking.
MA Design Futures (RCA, distinction), thesis Bio-parallels: rebuilding empathy between human and nonhuman. Exhibited internationally, awarded Far Futuring (CERN, Logitech) and Creative Conscience, and presented at international conferences.
Speculative design and art projects gained recognition through exhibitions including Tate Modern and European design weeks.
Earning the Art & Fashion Forum 5 Senses Award in 2015 and a Central Saint Martins course prize.
BA Design (distinction) following studies in Human Sciences, with Cycles of the Body (Communication of Mood Between Cyclicality and Modernity) shown at Design Indaba and across Europe.
Developing storytelling, video, and product–experience design skills through many collaborations and independent projects.
EDUCATION
Design Products and Futures
MA with distinction,
Royal College of Art, 2019–2021
Domestic and Communication Design
BA with distinction
School of Form, 2012–2016
History of Art and Design
University of Wroclaw, 2005–2010 and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2009–2010
Marketing & Interior Design technician,
Post-Secondary School ‘Promotion’,, 2003–2005
WORK
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Dziedziniec Rydygiera hostel & café
2024-present
Technical Reviewer
Apress
2025
Futures Designer and Analyst
John Lewis Partnership
2021 -2025
External Foresight Expert
Government Office for Science, Net Zero Society report, 2023
Design Transformation Lead, Brand Design and Strategy Consultant
DELL SOLE restaurant, 2005-2021
Facilitator and Keynote Speaker
Northern Chamber of Commerce in Stettin, 2022
Digital Creative
Royal College of Art, 2020-2021
Researcher and Designer
for WOWood project
RIBA RE-FABRICATE, 2020
Digital Creative
Spacestor, 2018-2020
Assistant Designer
LPP S.A. Reserved, 2017-2018
Freelance communication, and product designer for:
KROWARZYWA, 2016-2019; MANIFIESTA film studio, 2012-2016
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
Laboratory of Wellbeing exhibition by Poznan Design Festival, 2022
60Seconds Festival: (After is now) exhibition The Wrong Biennale, 2022
What Next exhibition by AMI, British Council, commissioned/2022
London Design Biennale exhibition: Design In An Age Of Crisis, 2021
RCA2021 show, 2021
Dutch Design Week and BioArt Laboratories, exhibitions, 2016, 2020 and 2021
Award: Creative Conscience design contest, 2020
Special award: The Grand Challenge 2020 far futuring by Logitech, CERN, RCA, 2020
Tate Modern: Staged on Screen invitee, 2019
Vienna Design Week: ‘It feels’ exhibition, Polish Institute Vienna, 2017
International Design Review exhibition, Graduation Projects.eu:, 2017
See & Say show, portfolio distinction, KTR, 2016
Finalist: of international design contest, Make me!, Lodz Design Festival: 2016
Home. Housing. Dwelling exhibition at: Gdynia Design Days and Lodz Design Festival, 2015
Winner of Fashion Jewellery Art & Fashion Forum 5 Senses, 2015
TALKS AND PUBLICATIONS
Kingston University London:
‘Future Household’ speaker,
JLP design sprint, 2023
Laboratory of Wellbeing podcast (pl), Poznan Design Festival, 2022
52nd NeMLA Convention:
Thinking with Plants, panellist, University at Buffalo, (NY), 2021
Meet the Makers and Sharing Biological Practices Symposium, panellist, RCA, 2021
In/visible Design of Social Experience conference, panellist, Tischner Eu University, 2020
Stillpoint Literary Journal,
publication, 2020
Design INDABA conference in Cape Town, panellist, 2017
methodologies and tools
portfolio