Laetitia Wolff

Laetitia Wolff is an international consultant in design, cultural engineering strategy, exhibition and conference curator, and author passionate about building bridges between design and the city. Convinced of the role of design as an agent of transformation in response to pressing societal and environmental issues, she has collaborated with internationally renowned designers and architects and numerous city and social innovation stakeholders.

Re-established in France for 7 years now, after 20+ years in the United States, she supports organizations in their innovation process using strategic design tools and impact evaluation. She works in partnership with local authorities, associations, cultural organizations, and schools, and questions sustainable and regenerative development issues through a practice of inclusive and participatory design research. 

Today, she designs and leads multi-party action-research initiatives, focused on the social and solidarity economy and sustainable development at Besign, The Sustainable Design School where she created a lab integrated into the School, serving the regeneration of territories, experimenting with biomaterials and qualitative field studies focused on the living.

At Sciences-Po, she supports students in their Civic Paths and takes them out of the classroom to collaborate with local government on sustainability matters.

Previously, she was the director of strategic initiatives at AIGA, the professional association for design, from 2013 to 2018 where she oversaw the design and social justice programs focused on civic engagement and developed civic and "creative placemaking" projects. Exhibition curator for the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennale from 2004 to 2022, she was the editor-in-chief of Surface and Graphis magazines and the author of Massin, the award-winning monograph on the French graphic designer, as well as the amateur photo book Real Photo Postcards. 

www.laetitiawolff.design