Kate Amstrong holds a Bachelor of Design and of Master Arts and Society and is currently the Design and Communication lead at Fab Lab Barcelona and Faculty of Master in Design for Emergent Futures co-delivered by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering. In her work, she uses new media tools, open source design and capacity building programming to engage the world in new narratives being developed in the world of Fab Labs, Fab City and Emergent Futures.

She sits on the Executive Board of the Fab City Foundation and coordinates the Distributed Design Platform, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.