Alessandra M. Rechsteiner

Alessandra Maria Rechsteiner is a sustainable designer integrating craft, material innovation, and systems thinking to address environmental and social challenges. Her practice combines hands-on making with strategic design, exploring how circular principles including material reuse, responsible production, and community collaboration, can generate meaningful change. With experience in co-design and speculative futures, she bridges experimentation with practical application. Alessandra sees design as a tool for regeneration and connection, transforming materials, relationships, and ideas toward more equitable and sustainable futures rooted in empathy, creativity, and long-term resilience.