Åsa Isacson
PHD Candidate
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolÅsa Isacson is a PhD candidate and multidisciplinary technologist focused on supporting small-scale, anti-growth communities through convivial digital tools and globally connected alternative development practices. With a decade in tech and eight years in the UN system—where she relaunched UN-Habitat’s academic partnership platform and created the Global Urban Lecture series that reached audiences in 65 countries—she combines product leadership, front-end development and community coordination. She has led funded national platforms (Vinnova-backed Bygg & Bo Ihop), civic apps for material reuse and volunteer mobilisation, and run dev teams as a project manager and lead developer. Åsa blends architectural training and creative direction (short films featured at the Guggenheim Bilbao) with hands-on coding and UX work from DecodeMTL and full-stack projects. Equally comfortable in international policy forums and agile development, she’s known for turning participatory civic visions into functioning digital systems. Currently based in Gothenburg, she directs research at Chalmers’ Division of Urban Design and Planning while steering innovation at Liminal Space and community housing initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HTML, Wordpress, Ruby on Rails, Final Cut Pro X, Adobe After Effects, HTML, Wordpress, Ruby on Rails, Final Cut Pro X, Adobe After Effects at Online coursesFull-Stack Immersive, Full-Stack, Full-Stack Immersive, Full-Stack at DecodeMTLBachelor, Architecture, Bachelor, Architecture at Lunds tekniska högskolaScrum Certificate, Agile/Scrum, Scrum Certificate, Scrum Certificate, Agile/Scrum, Scrum Certificate at Vivify ScrumFrench language, French language at Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV), Paris, Francecourses, Psychology, Ethnology, courses, Psychology, Ethnology at Lund UniversityDiploma, Higher level: English, Swedish, History, Psychology., Diploma, Higher level: English, Swedish, History, Psychology. at International BaccalaureateMaster of Architecture (M.Arch.), Design for Sustainable Development, Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Design for Sustainable Development at Chalmers tekniska högskola / Chalmers University of Technology
English, French, Swedish, Swahili
Stackoverflow
91reputation
6kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (11)
react-navigation-v56
react-native6
sustainability5
laravel4
javascript3
react3
mysql3
full-stack3
nodejs3
docker3
functional-programming2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
osaisacson/tillsammans
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Organising assistance for self-isolated risk groups of corona/covid-19
Contributions:6 PRs, 256 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
groupsriskorganisingassistanceisolated
osaisacson/demos-for-the-uk
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
political accountability
Contributions:17 PRs, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
laravelpoliticalaccountability
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