Isseya is a Designer and Strategist at Reos Partners, specialising in visual sensemaking and strategic co-creation. A multidisciplinary and hands-on designer and strategy consultant, she is passionate about facilitating innovative and inclusive multi-stakeholder collaboration to address complex systemic challenges and conflict-prone situations.

Isseya has worked on multiple flagship projects at Reos Partners, designing tools and processes to navigate complexity and enable co-creation with clients such as MiZa, the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, the UAE's Education, Human Development, and Community Development Council, etc. She has also collaborated with Prof. Lucy Kimbell designing scenarios for what future design practices might look like, for Lucy's upcoming book Design in 2040.

Isseya holds a First Class Honours degree in Graphic Communication Design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. The focus of her undergraduate work explored “How can design be used as a tool to facilitate difficult conversations?”, centring on the application of dialogic design to enable young adults from all walks of life to think and act critically and systemically.

Isseya grew up across France, Singapore, Thailand, China and Taiwan — and is currently based in London.


Practice


Mapping the terrain, thinking through making, practice-based research, research-based practice, dialogic design, making complex ideas accessible, co-creation of solutions, the importance of “random input”, rapid prototyping, “One of the things designers bring is a willingness to go to the board and draw something with no fear of it being wrong.”,

Education


Central Saint Martins, BA Graphic Communication Design 2020 – 2023, First Class Honours

Central Saint Martins, Art & Design Foundation Diploma 2019 – 2020, Distinction




Exhibitions and awards


Design in 2040 at the CSM Observatory, Lethaby Gallery, London Design Festival
2024

Central Saint Martins Graduate Showcase
2023

Care for Carers
2022

Winner of CSM x Mendale Textile Design competition
2021

Hear Make Heard: CSM x Fedrigoni
2020

IN Art Exhibition
2017