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ALLISON JOY TOMLINSON ![]()
Hello!
I am a Design Strategist, Design Researcher, and Facilitator who is passionate about improving how our systems are designed. Work, school, government, infrastructure: these are all designed things, which can and should be redesigned to better care for the humans using them every day, especially those historically marginalized. I’m also a firm believer that we need to consider our world in how we design, namely the flora and fauna who call this place home, as we make choices for the future.
I am currently a Design Strategist at Booz Allen Hamilton where I design products, processes, and conversations to address our Federal Government’s biggest challenges. In my Master of Arts program in Social Design from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), my thesis project centered on how work can be redesigned.
I am also a photographer, poet, writer, educator, and fiber artist.
Things I’m fascinated by right now:
︎ Building relationships with nature in urban settings
︎ How trees talk through mushrooms
︎ The movement of slime molds
︎ How algae figured out how to be on land through biogenesis in lichens
︎ The way cowpaths are formed in vacant lots
︎ Liminal Spaces
︎Philadelphia, PA
