Studio Julien McHardy is Julien. I am a German-Scottish designer, strategist, dramaturge and para-academic. I collaborate with theatre-makers, cultural institutions, artists, universities and commercial clients on strategies, stories, research, exhibitions, performances, and books. I thrive in collectives (sometimes). I aim to work from the heart.

Besides running my studio in Amsterdam, I contribute to Open Book Futures, where I and other bookworms care about publishing experiments and politics. In 2023, I joined the climate innovation cooperative 42hacks, to figure out what on Earth remains to be done.

I love (contact) improvisation.
I am mostly anti-socials.
I have two daughters.

I am a founding member of the publishing collective Mattering Press, a co-founder of 42hacks mobility and a founding board member of ScholarLed