Rasim Savaskan was born in 1985 in Istanbul. Rasim has a bachelor’s degree in industrial product design from the Yeditepe University, Turkey, and an MSc. in strategic product design from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Rasim specializes in Slow Cities within the context of sustainable development. He was a guest researcher at TU Delft in 2014-2015. Since 2014, he has been collaborating with Ana on sustainable design projects, and has been working as designer, researcher, and project manager at SUSDESIGN since 2015.