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Last updated 24th March 2023

Austin Houldsworth is a double graduate of the Royal College of Art. He is an Interdisciplinarity design practitioner, researcher, educator with a focus on critical & speculative design practice within the context of product and interaction.  

Austin works as a lecturer in Product Design at Huddersfield University, associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, visiting lecturer at Chester University and the Royal College of Art.  His research and practice strive to leverage change through the application of design within unfamiliar disciplines. Like reimaging and redesigning monetary systems (‘For moneys sake’ 2018).  Building the world’s first prototype human fossilisation machine.  Or recently founding the ‘Intergalactic Space Agency’ at the Eden Project.  

He also runs Ahaaa; a design consultancy that works with industry to develop and run design competitions.  Like the founding of the ‘Future of money design awards’ for Consult Hyperion, V&A, Money2020 and the ‘Creative Insight Awards’ for Worldpay.