Jesse Howard is a designer and educator based in the Netherlands. His design practice focuses on re-imagining everyday objects in response to new forms of digital fabrication, distributed development, and DIY communities. Through collaborative research and hands-on prototyping, the practice seeks to explore a re-definition of the traditional roles and relationships between the designers, producers, and users within a production system. Jesse was an initiator of “Hacking Households” – a collaborative project developed collectively by a group of designers, programmers, engineers, and artists. As part of the Horizon 2020 Better Factory, he co-developed "Found Objects" an algorithmic process for working with CNC waste. Jesse’s work has been exhibited internationally by, amongst others: The New Museum (US), Stedelijk Museum (NL), Centre Pompidou (FR), and MAK Museum of Applied Arts (AT).