DK Osseo-Asare is a designer who makes buildings, landscapes, cities, objects and digital tools. He is co-founding principal of transatlantic architecture and integrated design studio Low Design Office (LOWDO); co-founder of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP), an open-source maker tech project geared for Africa; and assistant professor of architecture and engineering design at Penn State University, where he runs the Humanitarian Materials Lab and serves as Associate Director of the Alliance for Education, Science, Engineering and Design with Africa.

He is a Fulbright Scholar, TED Global Fellow, Africa 4 Tech Digital Champion and led strategic and urban design for Koumbi City and Anam City new town projects in Ghana and Nigeria. He received A.B. in Engineering Design and M.Arch. degrees from Harvard University for his work in kinetic architecture and network power. His current research explores material assemblies optimized for massively scalable radical resilience.