Spencer Foxworth is a design strategist and writer who has spent nearly two decades making complexity legible.Starting as a copywriter and brand strategist, he went on to build content strategy and research disciplines from scratch at two digital agencies and a 250-person architecture and planning firm, leading writing teams for clients including Nike, Adobe, Taco Bell, and Intel. In 2020, he founded Held Studio, an independent practice in design strategy.A recurring concern in Spencer’s work is how people relate to the institutions that shape their lives and to the environments they depend on. He focuses on how economic and organizational decisions alter those relationships, often without accounting for their consequences.Spencer comes to SD-SI to explore these problems through systems thinking and speculative design. He asks: How can egalitarian systems be built around the relationships people rely on? Who should design them? Who should control them? And how can ordinary people retake political and economic power while caring for the common good?