Megan Valanidas is an industrial designer and studio artist with a focus in biomaterial application, soil health and consumer experience. She focuses on nature, convenience, the role of chance, and the inevitability of accidents to suggest methods, materials, and strategies for a better tomorrow.
Specializing in biomaterial application and interactivity, her work establishes and employs methods for Regenerative Design. She has lectured and exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Valanidas also specializes in speculative and discursive design and applying these tools to policy change and complex systems. In this capacity, she has collaborated and exhibited with groups including the United Nations, International Atomic Energy Agency and The Science Gallery Dublin among others.