HIND ALESSA

Results-driven design leader aiming to improve the quality of the built environment by employing multi-disciplinary approaches.

Design Thinking Trainer, Design Thinking Academy, Netherlands.

• 2018 - 2024 Participation as an external juror in national and regional universities in the GCC.
• 2023 Designathon Consultant. The 2 days event consisted of guiding participant towards designing a roundabout or a square from ideation to 3D renders execution. Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia.
• 2023 Guest speaker at in a panel discussion at the ceremony of Creative Essay Awards by Ministry of Culture, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 2022 Course Participant at Moving Boundaries (Perception of Built Environment). Santiago De Compostela, Spain and Porto, Portugal.
• 2021 Juror for SAMAYA National Competition by MOMRAH, Saudi Arabia.
• 2020 Participating in The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place Conference. Cambridge, UK.
• 2019 Embedding creative thinking methodologies in productive processes, Medina Art Center, Saudi Arabia.
• 2018 Facilitating Social Innovation workshop, Harvard Arab Conference. Boston, MA, USA.
• 2018 Participation in Building Saudi Celebrations workshop by Miguel Arraiz, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
• 2017 Hack a vision 3rd Honorable Mention, Harvard Arab Alumni Association. Boston, MA, USA.
• 2017 Participation in Dammam Metropolitan City workshop by UN Habitat, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
• 2017 Attending Interact LDN, by Nomensia. London, UK.
• 2015 Supervising The 2nd Prize Design Project at Fifth Session of Prince Sultan Bin Salman Award for Urban Heritage. Riyadh, KSA

• Al-Khobar Green Initiative (Part of Saudi & Middle East Green Initiatives)

• AIA Middle East Chapter

• 2015 Supervisor of the First prize winner's project at the Fifth Session of Prince Sultan Bin Salman Award for Urban Heritage.
• 2015 Design Idea Speech 2nd Prize winner.