Fiona Bell is an Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, directing the Entangled Ecologies Lab. Working at the intersection of HCI, biodesign, and material science, her research is focused on the development of interactive biomaterials that foster regenerative futures.
Fernanda Soares da Costa is a PhD student in Digital Media at the Interactive Technologies Institute (IST) in Lisbon, Portugal. With a background in Industrial Design and hands-on biomaterials practice, she explores sea-derived matter—often regarded as waste—as a medium for interaction and storytelling, cultivating engagements with local ecologies to nurture caring relations with the other-than-human. Fernanda is a member of Biolab Lisboa, where she has facilitated workshops on biomaterials.
Katherine Song is an Assistant Professor in the Knowledge and Intelligence Design Group in the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. Her research seeks to develop material, component, and system-level strategies for integrating biodegradable and living materials as computational advantages in the design of intelligent systems.
Marion Koelle is a professor for Human-Computer Interaction at Hochschule RheinMain in Wiesbaden, Germany. She designs and develops tools and techniques for personal fabrication and human-AI co-creation and researches biomaterials that integrate with digital technologies to create sustainable bio-digital artifacts.
Jingwen Zhu is a PhD candidate in Human Centered Design at Cornell University. Her research bridges e-textiles, sustainable materials, and biosensing devices. Her work emphasizes community engagement, actively involving artists, designers, and craftspeople from the maker community to broaden the impact of emerging technologies.
Lauren Thu is a designer and PhD student in the Everyday Design Studio at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Her research concerns methodological and material practices for designing with more-than-humans, specifically in how place is reflected in designed materials. She is particularly interested in how place-based sensing technologies may mediate oceanic constituencies.
Phillip Gough is a Senior Lecturer in Design at The University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. His research is part of the the Affective Interactions Lab, and focuses on how biomaterials can be used in a circular economy through digital fabrication, integration into interactive devices, and the impact biomaterials have on user experience.
Valentina Nisi is full Professor at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal and Vice President of the Interactive Technologies Institute. She is affiliated with the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Her research focuses on HCI Post-Human sensibilities, applied through Speculative Design, Storytelling and Games. Her recent output touches on natureculture constructs and More than Human Heritage.
Nadia Campo Woytuk is a PhD student in Interaction Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, exploring critical feminist design of technologies for the intimate body and the social and environmental ecologies it entangles. She uses Research through Design methods, including making with textiles and biomaterials, as well as participatory and speculative approaches.
Qiuyu Lu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and director of the Interbeing Lab. His research develops intelligent systems and interaction paradigms that foster mutualism among humans, the environment, and smart devices, combining emerging technologies with material-driven and non-anthropocentric design approaches.
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao is an Associate Professor in Human Centered Design at Cornell University. She directs the Hybrid Body Lab, which focuses on the design of Hybrid Skins: an emerging form of conformable interface situated at all scales of the human experience. Her lab adopts a broad range of biomaterials and biofabrication tools toward their goal of creating sustainable and ecological Hybrid Skins.
Ron Wakkary is a Professor in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University and Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research investigates the changing nature of design in response to new understandings of more-than-human relations, multispecies worlds, and posthumanism.