Bianca Elzenbaumer is a feminist design researcher based in the Italian Alps. She completed her doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2014 with a research on precarious working conditions and on how to mobilise design to undo them. She holds an MA in Communication Art & Design from the Royal College of Art and an MA in Mediation and International Peacebuilding from the University of Bologna. Elzenbaumer is a founding member of the design practice Brave New Alp and of the community academy La Foresta. She is a member of the Community Economies Institute, vice-director of the Center for Other Worlds at Lusófona University in Lisbon and co-president of the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA). Her 40-year research plan focuses on supporting and creating community economies and commons starting from the places she lives in.