Dr Zené Krige
Ph.D. , BDes (Hons) Industrial Design
Specialising in:
The integration of trust into technology-embedded objects through intentional Design.
Current Positions Held:
Experience:
2025 – Current - Senior Tutor, Industrial Design, Massey University
2025 – Current - General Manager of RIBB (MVL Trading Ltd)
March 2023 - August 2023 - Improvement and Innovation Advisor at Te Whatu Ora
August 2021 - Current - Design Researcher and Freelancer
May 2022 – February 2025 - Co-founder of Momentum - Women in Industrial Design
Summer 2021- Internship at Vivid Origin in Hataitai, Wellington
December 2020 - Massey Agriculture and Food Digital Lab at Massey University
Nov 2019- Nov 2020 Design Internship for the Auckland District Health Board
August 2021 - Current - Design Researcher and Freelancer
May 2022 – February 2025 - Co-founder of Momentum - Women in Industrial Design
Summer 2021- Internship at Vivid Origin in Hataitai, Wellington
December 2020 - Massey Agriculture and Food Digital Lab at Massey University
Nov 2019- Nov 2020 Design Internship for the Auckland District Health Board
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Awards and Achievements to date:
2026 - Fieldays Innovation Awards Finalist for Foresight
2026 - Invited to join the Consortium of Medical Device Technologies (CMDT) – Te Tītoki Mataora - Future Leaders
2025 Dean's List of Exceptional Theses – Ph.D. thesis.
2025 Good Design Australia Winner – RIBB – alongside Rodney Adank and Jason Mitchell
2025 Best Awards - Gold Pin – Student Social Good Category Winner– Poppie – alongside Sophie West
2025 – Best Awards – Silver for Poppie (Student Category) - Alongside Sophie West
2025 – Best Awards Finalist for RIBB
2025 – Best Awards Finalist for Foresight (Student Category)
2025 – Dyson Awards – New Zealand Runner Up for Foresight
2025 – Paris Design Award Winner for Foresight
2025 – Good Design Australia Award for RIBB
2025 – Massey Ventures Grand Ideas Runner-up – for Poppie
2024 Red Dot Award Winner – RIBB – alongside Rodney Adank and Jason Mitchell, Wyatt Page, Richard Perry and Sarah Lakomy
2024 - Shortlisted IF Design Awards - Ribb
2024 - Red Dot Concept Award Winner - Ribb - Collaboration with Te Whatu Ora
2024 - Red Dot Concept Award Winner - Trax
2022 - Massey University Finalist in the 3 Minute Thesis.
2022 Co-founder, Women in Industrial Design
2021 - Ken and Elizabeth Powell Scholarship
2021 - Massey Doctoral Scholarship
2021 - Dick and Mary Earle Scholarship in Technology
2021 - Shortlisted for Global Design Graduate Show 2021
2021 - Best Awards - Silver Award Winner for the Project Trax
2021- Good Design Australia Award Winner: Next Gen Category for the project; Trax
2021 - New Zealand Runner-Up in the James Dyson Awards for project; Trax
2021 - Awarded as a Massey Scholar for Academic Achievement.
2018 - ECC People’s Choice Award - Lighting category for project; Rewa
2015 - Young Designer Awards 3rd place Residential design category
2014 - Young Designer Awards 2nd place Residential design category
2013 - Young Designer Awards 1st Place Interior Design category