Miho Soon

Miho is a Berlin-based independent researcher, product designer & former entrepreneur from Malaysia. She has built successful design interventions working across numerous fields including blockchain, crisis mitigation and human rights. Her experience working with migrants and refugees shapes her trauma-informed approach to design, integrating a bridge between psychological resilience, economics, social science and technology design practices. Her work has been featured at the Tate Modern London, the United Nations, Unicef, Cannes Film Festival & The Guardian. She has run workshops for hundreds of people at alternative technology and economics conferences around Europe about financial trauma and design. She’s an affiliate of the Post Growth Institute.

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We Have to Start Talking About Money Trauma

It’s curious that money trauma hasn’t gone into the mainstream yet. It’s one of the most fundamental forces shaping how we move around in our lives, and yet it remains incredibly taboo.

March 31, 2026

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Decoupling ‘The Good Life’ from Capitalism

I want ‘The Good Life’ to be inclusive of everyone, to be truly pluralistic in not leaving anyone behind across ideological and geographic lines.

November 25, 2024