Speakers

Goda Klumbytė

Goda is a PhD candidate at the University of Kassel and a graduate of Utrecht University, Media and Performance studies (MA cum laude). Her research engages feminist science and technology studies, new media studies and posthumanism. Of particular interest to her are the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and how developments in these fields re-configure notions of body, subjectivity, knowledge and social relations. Her PhD research at the University of Kassel focuses on knowledge production in and through machine learning systems. Her work was published in Everyday Feminist Research Praxis (eds. Leurs and Olivieri, 2015), Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism (eds. Walters and Hester, 2015) and Posthuman Glossary (eds. Braidotti and Hlavajova, 2018).

Iohanna Nicenboim

Iohanna is a speculative designer and researcher. She is currently a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology, which is funded by a Microsoft Scholarship, and investigates AI through more-than-human design. In the last years, she has been developing more-than-human design methods to decenter the human. She has been also using those methods to design provocations that combine posthuman feminist theory with critical design to imagine more situated and response-able interactions with conversational agents. Iohanna has led a workshop at DIS2020, on More-than-human design and co-organized a panel on that topic at CHI2021. She is now one of the editors of the Posthumanist HCI and the More-than-Human Turn in Design special issue in the HCI Journal.

Adam Hudec

Adam is a PhD student at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and co-founder of Dusts Institute. Dusts Institute is an interdisciplinary research platform and community agency based in Vienna, Austria. Our research based practice operates inbetween architecture, art, science and activism, where interdisciplinarity has become a tool to explore hidden or ignored anomalies of the (urban) environments.

Elena Albergati

Elena is a PhD student at Politecnico studying new materials starting from living organisms such as algae, fungi and bacteria. She graduated form the Design school of the Politecnico di Milano, where she came into contact with the discipline of Biodesign. In 2020 she graduated in Digital and Interaction Design to explore new technological perspectives that also consider the possibility of collaborating with Nature to obtain sustainable solutions.

Inna Zrajaeva

Inna is an interaction Designer from Uzbekistan/Germany located in Malmö, Sweden. Focusing on participatory practices and the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature. Member of Feral Malmö, an initiative looking at the city from a multi species perspective.

Ege Kökel

Ege is a designer and artistic researcher with an interest in natural sciences and futures. She uses design as a tool for speculation, discussion, and sense making. She is part of the artist collective DTAFA (Danube Transformation Agency for Agency). She has exhibited her work internationally, including at the Center for Book Arts NY, European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 22 and Global Grad Show Dubai.

Priyanka Bista

Priyanka is a Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where she teaches at the intersection of biodiversity conservation and public interest design. Over the last six years, she started a project called "Vertical University" in collaboration with rural communities living across an 8,000-meter biodiversity-rich landscape of Nepal.

Paul Joseph Rivera-Carlisle

Paul Joseph is completing their Master’s degree in Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture at the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research focuses on conceptualizations of Artificial Intelligences (AI) as a form of techno-subalternity, taking into consideration the potential agency of AI through Posthuman and subaltern frameworks.

Valeria Lopez Torres

Valeria is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and Adjunct Faculty at Dunwoody College of Technology (Minneapolis) Researcher, Designer, Artist, and Educator working at the intersection of Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and the Human Experience. She is interested in the subjective aspects of design, and its role in shaping our relationships with technology. In her research, she explores topics related to our present and future(s) with technology, and the affective bonds we build with it; particularly AI and affective chatbots.

Jakub Wydra

Jakub is master’s student of Inter-faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities, Bachelor in culture and media management. Secretary of Humanistic Management Network.

Maria Pieniążek

Maria is master’s student of contemporary culture management, Bachelor in culture and media management. Secretary of Humanistic Management Network.

Alinta Krauth

Alinta is a new media artist and researcher of multispecies interactive art. She is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway and the co-founder of interaction design hub EphemerLab. She uses emergent technologies to explore aesthetics for nonhuman animal audiences, by creating unusual enrichment devices for domesticated animals and animals in rehabilitation. Recent installations of her creative works and creative research have been seen in places such as Science Gallery Detroit, ZAZ10ts Gallery, Art Laboratory Berlin, & ISEA.

Maliheh Ghajargar

Maliheh is an associate senior lecturer (asst. prof.) at the School of Arts and Communication, and IoTaP research centre, Malmö University. Her research and teaching interests are within the areas
of Design Research, HCI and Human-AI interaction and creativity. Her works have been published in HCI and design venues such as ACM CHI, ACM TEI, OzCHI, IoT conferences, MIT Design Issues, International Design Journal of Design.

Susanne Kass

Susanne is an artist and PhD researcher in Media and Communication Studies at Charles University. She studied conceptual practices at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and works with performance, pedagogy, language and communication. Her current research is focused on how changing semiotic technologies are changing environmental knowledge and communication.

Clyde Doyle

Clyde is a design lecturer and Co-Chair of the MA Design for Change at IADT, Dublin. Currently engaged in PhD in Design at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) through which he is developing post-anthropocentric design methodologies and is also a founding member of IADT’s Public Design Lab which is focuses on design for social and public good.

Lucia Kolesárová

In her practice, Lucia combines design, research and art. She focuses on sustainability and regeneration of the environment and multiple agencies, dependencies, and relations within it. She is part of the design research group Research Institute of Botanical Linguistics (RIBL) which aims to attune itself and others to the dynamism of the other-than-human world and foster ways of coexistence through multispecies encounters. She is co-lead of Climate Designers Czech Republic & Slovakia, an initiative supporting not only designers to become climate leaders within their teams and organisations, and a member of Stride XL – a design agency focused on sustainability.

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