About Leanne Fischler

Hello there!

Hello, I’m a researcher and creative based in the Orkney Isles. My work explores the social impacts of emerging digital technologies, focusing on how design and digital technologies might (or might not!) shape more equitable and sustainable futures.

My practice sits at the intersection of design, data, social research, and speculative futures. I recently graduated with an MSc with Distinction in Data, Inequality and Society from the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Role and Experience

This academic focus informs my technical work as the Technical Manager at Community Energy Scotland, where I lead a team developing fair and inclusive community energy projects using digital and energy technologies for social good.

Previously, I spent three years as a Senior Designer at the award-winning studio Superflux, contributing to:

  • International exhibitions (e.g., Museum of the Future in Dubai, Venice Biennale of Architecture)
  • Films
  • Cultural works that investigate emerging technologies, climate change futures, and citizen-centered alternatives for the internet.

CV

Work

  • 2024—Present Community Energy Scotland Technial Team Manager
  • 2022—24 Community Energy Scotland Data and Digital Officer
  • 2022—23 University of Edinburgh PhD Research Assistant
  • 2019—22 Superflux Senior Designer and Producer
  • 2022 IKEA for COP26 Designer
  • 2022 Museum of the Future, Dubai Producer
  • 2021 Invocation for Hope, Vienna Installation Manager
  • 2021 Refuge for Resurgence, Venice Designer
  • 2021 the intersection - Omidyar Network Designer
  • 2019 Mitigation of Shock, Singapore Designer and Producer
  • 2019—20 Demand Energy Equality Workshop Leader
  • 2021 Freeport: Anatomies of a Black Box Participant
  • 2018—19 University of Dundee Design Tutor
  • 2017—19 Fixperts Facilitator
  • 2017—18 V&A Dundee: Scottish Design Relay Project Facilitator and Lead Designer
  • 2018 IDEO Circular Economy Fellow
  • 2016 Anchor & Sail, Archipelago Folkschool Boat Building Tutor

Talks

  • 2019 Talk on Design Careers Brighton University
  • 2018 V&A Dundee Women and the Landscape
  • 2018 Pecha Kucha Dundee
  • 2016 BBC Bitesize Art and Design Presenter

Print

  • 2021 Anatomies of a Black Box Freeport
  • 2016 Made in China Dark Mountain Project's Issue 8, TECHNÊ

Exhibitions

  • 2016 Innovators Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
  • 2016 What is it Now? Common Weal

Volunteering

  • 2014—2016 Skill Share Dundee Board of Trustees
  • 2015—2017 Swan Trust Sailing Instruction Volunteer