Oona Strathern

I grew up in London and have worked for more than 30 years as a trend consultant, speaker and author. As well as writing about building and living in the future as a trend consultant I have worked for international firms such as Unilever, Beiersdorf, Philip Morris and the Deutsche Bank. I speak and write regularly on living on the future of design, home, architecture, and building.

I am proud owner of an Irish passport, have lived and worked throughout Europe, hitched through Africa, and have taken up surfing and boxing the wrong side of 50. I worked for many years as a TV and print journalist for the Observer in the UK and currently live in our experimental self-designed Future Evolution House in Vienna with my husband Matthias Horx, occasionally with our two grown up children, Tristan and Julian, and a mad dog called Bubbles.