Stephen Mushin is an industrial designer and visual artist working in Aotearoa New Zealand. His illustrations, design projects, exhibitions and design workshops explore interactions between human made machines and natural ecologies.

Stephen’s first book of ecological inventions, Ultrawild, is published by Allen & Unwin (November 2023).

Stephen has over 20 years experience as an industrial designer, design workshop facilitator and science communicator. He has collaborated with scientists, engineers, farmers, steel fabricators and landscapers on high tech urban agriculture, composting and biogas technologies, zero- emission master-plans, science communication and science-based adventure playgrounds, amongst many other things.

Stephen’s satirical future inventions were exhibited by The Australian Design Centre as part of CUSP (2013), a touring exhibition of futures design thinking. In August 2014, his exhibition Now If What Then: Farming Tokyo was exhibited as a solo show at Spiral contemporary art gallery in Japan, in collaboration with The Tokyo University of Agriculture. This exhibition presented 10 of Stephen's projects which re-imagined the world’s largest city as self sufficient in food production. His designs have also been exhibited in Sydney at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery (2015), at The Glasshouse in Port Macquarie (2016), and at MRPG gallery and Docklands Library Gallery in Melbourne (2017).

In 2012 Stephen won the British Council's Big Green Idea Award for an open-source aquaponics system, he managed technology projects at CERES Environment Park for seven years from 2003-2010, and in 2015 was awarded an Australian Design Honours  for work in sustainability design education.