Fadilah Arief is a multidisciplinary designer, educator, and researcher who enjoys combining her academic and practical knowledge in design and entrepreneurship.
Currently serving a Product Design lecturer at Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, Fadilah has also crafted award-winning educational apps and games as well as initiated a scholarship, Beasiswa Kreatif or Creative Scholarship, to help local art and design students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fadilah describes her one-year stint at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she obtained a Master of Arts in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, as an eye-opening experience that stressed the importance of collaboration across cultures and sectors in an effort to enrich and promote intercultural understanding as well as continuously advance technology and innovation. During her time in London, Fadilah also created the @fadilahinlondon account on Instagram, where she shared her personal experience as an international Muslim student in the UK via engaging, self-penned comics, amassing over 15,000 followers. Through her creative and academic endeavours, she constantly aims to instill inspiration and change mindsets, two of the most important things that she learned from her UK experience.