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Tessy is Director of Social Spaces, a social designer, researcher and educationalist, who develops innovative methods for stimulating positive and collaborative approaches in wellbeing, citizen-led participation and community co-production.

Tessy is editor of Hand Made - Portraits of emergent new community culture (2010)which revealed and documented inspiring community-led projects from around the world. With the help of Laura Billings and Maurice Specht this initial book has grown into a large collaborative project which in 2012 will begin to publish The Community Lover's Guide To The Universe - a collaborative, crowd-sourced series of 50 (and growing) city and town guides where a high level of creative and collaborative community activity is emerging.