Simon Höher

Simon Höher is an Independent Strategic and Public Designer as well as Systems Change Lead at Dark Matter Laboratories. In his work he explores emerging patterns of just transition processes, public innovation, and digital transformation. He has a background in sociology, political science, economics and philosophy with a particular focus on Systems Theory. Simon has been working with public, private and civic organisations for over a decade and is (occasional) visiting lecturer at the Faculty for Social Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Simon is currently supporting the EU Commission’s NetZeroCities Mission to help 100 cities transition to climate neutrality. Most recently he has been working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Economic Forum and the African Centre for Cities in Cape Town. Other clients and partners include Stiftung Mercator, Mozilla Foundation, OKFN, Wikimedia e.V, the RISE Cities program of BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment, CityLab Berlin, GovTech Campus Germany, as well as various corporations, municipalities and ministries.