Program

Joseph Lindley is a Senior Research Fellow at Lancaster University where he leads Design Research Works, a project whose aim is to show the world what it can gain from design research. He has a track record of publishing design-led research into the widespread adoption of AI, including proposing Research through Design as a 'Rapid response methodology' for AI, naming the emerging practice of 'Prompt Craft', and using design to unpack 'AI legibility.' He is a co-author of the IEEE P2840 standard for Responsible AI Licensing, led the Arts and Humanities' Research Councils report on AI & Data, and, in 2024, in partnership with collaborators, has presented the AI-powered Shadowplay installation to around 100,000 people.

Cristina Zaga is an Assistant Professor of Human-Centred Design group and DesignLab at the University of Twente. Cristina’s research aims to develop methodology to foster societal transitions towards justice, care, and solidarity. She has developed Responsible Futuring, a transdisciplinary approach to imagine future worth wanting and foster more-than human communities of belonging, and she is currently working on approaches to Design for Resistance to contest and re-imagine the future of work and care with robots and AI. They lead the JEDAI networks, working towards mitigating the dehumanizing effects of AI and promoting social and environmental justice. Their award-winning work has received many accolades, including the NWO Science Price for DEI initiatives (2022), the Dutch High Education Award (2022), and the Google Women Techmaker Award and scholarship (2018).