Nicolás Rebolledo
Nicolás Rebolledo is one of the founders of UNIT. He is a strategic service designer and educator based in London, with over 20 years of experience leading strategies, research, and design-led innovation to create new services and transform people and organisations.
Beyond his role at UNIT, Nicolás is Senior Tutor in Service Design and Design Futures (Associate Professor) at the Royal College of Art, where he leads the Service Futures Studio. He is Practice Fellow at Imperial College Business School, where he co-directs Wicked Acceleration Labs, a joint research initiative exploring mission-oriented innovation and systemic transformation. He is also a Fellow of States of Change, a global collective advancing public innovation through learning and practice.
Originally trained as an architect at the Catholic University of Chile, he holds an MSc in Technology Entrepreneurship from University College London (UCL) and a PhD in Service Design from the Royal College of Art. He has taught at the UCL School of Management, London Business School, and Imperial College Business School, and has served as a Design Advisor at the MIT GovLab.
Design is the ability to imagine and create the form through which what one imagines becomes something material and useful, something that is beautiful, moves people emotionally, and works within a social, cultural, and economic context