Youngsil Lee, (https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0433-2288) is an ecological action designer and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD fellow at Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on rethinking data practices through design, with an emphasis on sustainability and ecology. She is passionate about exploring the entanglement of data, human knowledge, and nature within the realms of economy, culture, and the environment.
Larissa Pschetz, (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7923-3920) is a Senior Lecturer in Design Informatics and Edinburgh Futures Institute Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research is focused on inclusive technologies and the impact of socio-technological narratives on perceptions of time and the natural world.
Mary Karyda, (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3727-3665) is the Lead researcher at Data storytelling hub, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Her research focuses on designing and studying the ways data-driven artefacts might shape how different audiences engage with scientific information towards crafting more sustainable futures.
Oscar Tomico, (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2623-9031) is an Associate professor at the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology on Design Research Methodologies for Posthuman Sustainability. His research expands the context of human-centered design and positions designers as part of complex ecological systems. Building on his research on 1st person research methodologies, he explores ecologies of design, production and use focusing on the impact they have on the co-existence and co-habitation with other-than-human actors, such as plants.
Danielle Wilde, FDRS, FRGS (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0151-3110) is a Professor in Design for Sustainability at Umeå University, Sweden, and Sustainability Transitions at The University of Southern Denmark. Their research is radically transdisciplinary; draws on feminist, intersectional, embodied epistemologies, ontologies, and geographies; is conducted in collaboration with Indigenous and non-Indigenous human and non-human communities; at the intersections of systemic issues, localised practices, and governance across divergent scales.
Tau Lenskjold, (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3642-4342) is an Associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Department of Design, Media and Educational Sciences. His work centers on the cultural imprints of more-than-human entanglements with other species and ecologies. Drawing on participatory and experimental approaches, the research explores design as an inquiring and collaborative practice.
Rachel Clarke, (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5512-1243) is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BA Design for Climate Justice at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Her research focuses on embodiment and affect in design practice combining visual communication with qualitative and ecological data, performance and storytelling on issues of climate, sustainability and social inequalities.
Sara Heitlinger, (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6148-350X) is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the More-than-Human Sustainable and Inclusive Smart Cities project.
Ann Light, (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9145-6609) is a Professor of Design working at University of Sussex, UK, and Malmo University, Sweden. She specialises in participatory practice, human-technology relations and collaborative future-making, with a focus on the politics, ethics and agency of design. She is co-creator of the CreaTures Framework (https://creaturesframework.org/), which advocates for the more-than-human in valuing arts practice as transformative.
Bettina Nissen, (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9032-7714) is a Lecturer in Interaction Design at the Institute for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her practice-based design research focuses on engaging audiences with complex technological concepts and data practices through tangible, participatory and experiential interactions.