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Aniela Fidler-Wieruszewska is an independent London-based creative strategist and systemic researcher working across culture, education, innovation and sustainability. Her work brings together creativity, futures thinking and participatory research to explore how people experience complexity, emotionally and socially and how these insights can inform more joined-up and engaging responses from institutions, funders and practitioners.

Aniela’s work spans ideation, writing, research, product/service design and facilitation, with experience leading and contributing to publicly funded, cross-sector projects across the UK and internationally. She has worked with organisations including the British Council, Crafts Council, Innovate UK, the European Commission (EU), Dutch Design Week (NL), Kickstarter, the Barbican, the Royal Society of Arts, the Sommerset House, Lottozero textile laboratories (IT), Fashion Revolution, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and more, collaborating with universities, schools, cultural institutions, community organisations and policymakers.

A consistent part of her role has involved shaping funding strategies and contributing to successful grant applications, aligning research insight, budgets and impact.

A defining feature of Aniela’s work is making complex ideas and issues accessible and meaningful. She sees everyone as collaborators in sensemaking rather than research subjects, with a strong emphasis on how things feel. She is particularly attentive to how knowledge and ideas are framed and communicated, ensuring that results are clear and usable for everyone involved.

She is currently completing a practice-based PhD at Glasgow Caledonian University, where her doctoral research formalises a practice developed through several years of professional work. Her research focuses on youth wellbeing, a state of flow, emotions and futures literacy, using fashion as a creative and relational lens to understand how feelings, identity and agency are shaped.

Alongside her research, Aniela teaches and mentors in higher education and alternative learning settings (MYOM, MOD:UAL), delivering systems and futures-focused teaching and supporting student agency and critical thinking. Her work has contributed to reports, case studies, conferences and publications and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the British Academy Early Career Researcher Network.

Showed work at Milan Design Week, Dutch Design Week, Gdynia Design Days (PL), Van Abbemuseum (NL), Zacheta National Galery (PL). Featured by Dezeen, FranklinTill, Future Laboratory.


Projects section coming soon. Please bare with me as I declutter the portfolio ✨