Julia Solano

Julia Solano is a designer, researcher, and artist deeply curious about relationality and building systems to meet community needs – not the other way around. She is Community Architect for The Tech We Want, where she leads Information and Knowledge Management and Visual Storytelling.

Previously she was part of Omidyar Network’s Exploration and Future Sensing Lab where she launched the Community Infrastructure Fund for Mutual Aid and focused on immersive experience, speculative storytelling, and participatory grant making.

When she’s not thinking about systems and futures, she can be found plein air painting or building bamboo and earth structures for festivals and land-based projects around the world.