nyangalazolho. Policy Designer, Strategist, Decolonial Futurist.
Nyangala is a Policy Learning Designer at the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL), based between Barcelona, CAT & London, UK. They support policymakers and wider policy communities to share and learn from new ideas and evidence. Nyangala is pursuing a PhD in Design at BAU, Barcelona, CAT, and lectures Master’s student on Social Innovation and Collaborative design. In 2023, they received a research fellowship from the Creative Impact Research Centre Europe (CIRCE), Berlin, DE. Nyangala previously worked at Nesta, UK.
Nyangala (pronounced “knee-angle-ah”) is an Aboriginal Australian name that means eclipse of the moon. ⊙
‘Most of what you learn will need to be experienced to be fully understood’
Between 2024-25, a number of personal and professional grief set to reorientate Nyangala’s focus and purpose-led work. This website has since been redesigned to capture these worldly “failures” in hope that the insights and lessons derived might support the endeavours of others.