Hanson Cheng is an interdisciplinary designer working across scales of design. From products, speculation, to immersive pavilions, his work explores themes of sustainability and technology, health and wellbeing, as well as play and the built environment.
He co-founded The Tyre Collective— a Clean-tech start up spearheading the capture and monitoring of tyre wear, accelerating the shift towards zero-emission mobility.
He also co-founded SpaceScape — a design-build studio creating playscape structures across Shanghai, China.
Hanson received his MA / MSc with Distinction, in Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a concentration in nature, culture, and sustainability studies and has worked at internationally renowned architecture firms SOM and KPF.
His work has won various international awards, been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery London and featured on BBC, Dwell, designboom, Evening Standard, edie, and Sky News.