Connie Svabo, PhD, is Professor and Leader of the Section for Learning, Experience, and Design at the University of Southern Denmark. She directs FNUG, a transdisciplinary STEM education research center, where she develops innovative practices of knowledge creation and professional competence development. With a background in business, design, and communication—and international experience including collaborations with Stanford—she bridges academia and entrepreneurship to create environments that spark collective creativity and open-ended innovation. Her work focuses on curating environments that help professionals, organizations, and students navigate complexity through playful, performative, and practical experimentation