Idrees Rasouli is an award-winning designer, academic, and researcher of products, processes, and places, with a focus on innovation and transformation. A creative leader and systems-thinker, Idrees has led and delivered projects across a wide range of industries, including technology, healthcare, transport, consumer goods, manufacturing, education, and construction throughout the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
As Deputy Head of Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University, Idrees leads the portfolio of Art & Design programmes, with a focus on extending the school’s purpose and offering in the 21st century, particularly around ethical, inclusive, and systemic education and practice. He is the Creative Director of X-Crop, a Cambridge-based research and innovation lab focused on making cities, organisations, and people better by design.
Idrees will be speaking as a panelist in the Partnership & Innovation in Practice: Cambridge Lessons session on Thursday 22 June.