Energetic French experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun boldly goes where no man (or woman) has been before. Whether collaborating with NASA to create an International Space Orchestra or investigating the Chernobyl exclusion zone, her work crosses architecture, design, science and technology to make us think about the world and beyond in new and unexpected ways. Her infectious enthusiasm for creating offbeat projects, noted in Icon’s Future 50 issue (122), has even hardened critics thinking: “If anyone can do it, Nelly can.”
Ben Hayoun was one of our Future 50