Rachel Poonsiriwong
Product Designer
Terrascope
Rachel Poonsiriwong is a product designer, curator, and creative technologist based in Singapore. She works at Terrascope, a Climatetech startup focused on emission reduction through data science and AI. Previously, she was at Scale AI and Microsoft, designing computer vision and machine learning solutions. Her work has been featured in TIME Top 200 Inventions, CNN, and Bloomberg. Rachel has also curated exhibitions in San Francisco and Rochester and exhibited as a creative technologist in New Orleans and Bali. She graduated from the Interaction Design program at California College of the Arts and has received the DesignSingapore scholarship (2017) and the Good Design Research award (2023) researching multimodal AI interactions.
Latent Ecologies: Guiding Climate Decisions Through Design
As consumers, our choices often shape more than we realize—but making sustainable decisions can feel out of reach without the right information. This talk delves into the role of design in making these hidden systems visible, empowering more informed decisions in our day-to-day lives. Rachel will share insights from her work in climate tech, focusing on how product and corporate carbon footprinting tools help enterprises in the food and agricultural sectors. These tools identify decarbonization opportunities throughout a product’s life cycle, including the influence of consumer behavior. By exposing high-emission factors, design holds the power to reshape our decision-making, guiding more eco-conscious choices at scale.
