Sabine Hielscher graduated from the BA (Hons) course in Ecodesign at Goldsmiths College, London in 2004. The course enabled her to engage with ecological, social and cultural issues in particular sustainable concepts and environmental issues. While studying and upon graduting Sabine gained work experience with the Institute for Ecological Economy Research and more recently with Forum for the Future, where she developed valuable insights into sustainable research projects and in particular in the business programme of the Forum for the Future into corporate social responsibility. Further, Sabine worked for Startup Design and the Thomas Heatherwick Studio as a Design Assistant, and this afforded many work-related design challenges. She is currently undertaking a PhD at Sheffield Institute of Art and Design, Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests lie in sustainable systems innovation, human/ object theories and design-led qualitative research methods.