Cecilia Hertz is the Founder & CEO of Umbilical Design. In 2009 she initiated the Down to Earth project – commercializing space technologies for a sustainable earth – a Swedish ten-year initiative that targets global challenges regarding energy, health care, transportation, water, climate change and mega cities. The interdisciplinary project involves space agencies, companies and universities to identify sustainable solutions inspired by space technologies. She has worked with clients like Electrolux, Volvo Cars, SKF, Academedia and Lidköping Municipality.

Space Technology Transfer, with NCC, how can space materials contribute to more energy effective house constructions, with Scania, creating more volume effective truck cabins for a better working & living environment for the driver. Umbilical Design was given the contract by ESA, European Space Agency 2009 to initiate and develop the Swedish NTTI, National Technology Transfer Initiative.

Birdhouse Project – a Japanese project invited as 1 of 9 space designers to create future house concepts inspired by space technologies

Space tourism – Inflatable interior design for a parabolic flight plane, for tourists.

Interior design for the Crew Return Vehicle, initiated as a Diploma work at Lund Institute of Technology, developed in cooperation with NASA, JSC and ESA, ESTEC.

Zero-gravity experience – prototype testing of design solutions in ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, France.