Agnieszka Polkowska is a speculative designer, future strategist and educator with a Ph.D. in design. She is a founder of a TRENDSPOT future research & speculative design studio as well as co-founder of Touching Points studio which was established to transfer ideas between different sectors and implementing them into strategic actions. She actively works in design and futures education as speculative design studio and trends lecturer at Stettin Art Academy as well as carries out interdisciplinary courses in trends and foresight at Total Design Management postgraduate studies at Warsaw University of Technology, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Collegium Da Vinci and Łazarski University. Agnieszka is an expert and consultant of Dutch think-tank MARE Amsterdam and cooperates with such institutions as the Institute of Industrial Design, Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia, Łódź Design Festival. She had the pleasure to contribute and worked on research and implementation projects for such clients as MTV, Play, Vogue Poland, Ceramika Paradyż, Cosentino, Abriga, Desa Unicum, Biżuteria YES, eobuwie.pl, Decathlon, Local Heroes as well as many others. She is also a member of the expert board of the must have competition at the Łódź Design Festival.