Caroline Grellier

Caroline Grellier is a French designer, design educator and design researcher who has been based in West Africa for 10 years. Her deep commitment to design education in Africa led her to set up the first design school in francophone Africa; Africa Design School in Cotonou, Benin. Passionate about design cultures, she is preparing a PhD in design anthropology to identify and analyse the roles of African endogenous design thinking cultures in global design History. In January 2022, she joined the YUX Academy in Dakar as a Director, in order to contribute to developing instructional design suitable to local African contexts.