Core team

Santini Basra

Director

Futures dork and founder of Andthen. Also teaching at the Glasgow School of Art and hosting Speculative Futures Glasgow. Wants to make us all think about the long-term future and gets way too excited by inventing new tools to do so.

Lizzie Abernethy

Senior Designer & Researcher

Keen on sharing so helped set up the Glasgow Tool Library. Explored the commons with Agile City and social innovation with Butterfly Works. Likes engaging people in public space about public issues.

Freyja Harris

Designer & Researcher

Interested in all sorts of creative and qualitative research especially when it comes to working with sensitive topics such as mental health. Navigating how to research inclusively, safely and fairly led her to completing a COSCA counselling skills course.

Holly McPaul

Junior Designer & Researcher

A Product Design graduate from the Glasgow School of Art with an interest in participatory design. Holly enjoys discovering new ways to facilitate, engage, and educate in the hopes of encouraging people to ask more questions.

Associates

At Andthen, we like to look beyond our core team for expertise. Our associates help us stay fresh with external thinking — contributing to our work and supporting on specialist challenges.

Emmie McKay

Person Centred therapist and Registered Member of BACP working with young people (12+) and adults.

Fred Wordie

Critical designer and Creative Technologist, exploring how society engages with technology and each other.

Lewis Just

Sustainability specialist with over 9 years of innovation experience.

Michael Mogensen

Global Design Lead at D-Ford, part of Ford Motor Company.

Will Brown

Where innovation meets ecology, currently expanding his background in innovation with Environmental Management MSc at the University of Stirling.

Marily Papanastasatou

A multidisciplinary designer from Greece, interested in the exchange between art and design practices.