Dr Maria Luce is an Assistant Professor in Interaction and Critical Design at the Department of Architecture and Design at Politecnico di Torino (IT). Her research is concerned with all matters of human entanglement with the artificial world, especially concerning complex technologies such as AI and robotics.
Tobias Revell is a digital artist and designer from London, he is Design Futures Lead at Arup Foresight. He is approximately 47.6% of research and curatorial project Haunted Machines, a member of technological research outfit Supra Systems Studio and teaches at several design schools. In his practice, he lectures and exhibits internationally on design, technology, imagination and speculation. He is completing a PhD examining design’s role in the social construction of AI at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dr Marina A. S. Daniele is a parent and a researcher working as a lecturer in Midwifery at City St George’s, University of London. Marina is interested in reproductive justice processes and in envisioning optimal birth experiences for all. She wanted to be an illustrator as a child. She paints and draws and is seeking ways to incorporate these activities into her work.
Louise Mullins is lecturer in Health Visiting at City St George’s, University of London. She is qualified in adult nursing, midwifery and health visiting. She has held clinical roles in all three professional disciplines. She was education lead within the trust working with SCPHNs and practice teachers. Prior to joining City she held a management position within a local trust.
Dr Melania Calestani is an anthropologist and senior lecturer at the department of midwifery at Kingston University London. She leads the Ways of Knowing thread, which is integrated into all modules to ensure the assimilation of research knowledge and its application to clinical practice. Her main research interests include critical understandings of race and ethnicity, health inequalities and perspectives from critical medical anthropology.
Dr Dorian Peters is Associate Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, and a design Research Associate at Imperial College London. She is a technology designer and human-computer interaction researcher focusing on design for health, wellbeing, human autonomy and learning, as well as technology ethics in practice. She collaborates with technologists, social scientists and users to co-create human-centred technologies that respect psychological needs.
Dr Harriet Barratt is an independent medical humanities researcher, and a research development manager in arts and humanities at the University of Sussex. She holds a PhD from the University of Sussex in how people relate to and represent material objects in illness - spanning literary and biographical narratives, psychoanalytic object relations theories and the material culture of medicine - and has since led a two-year impact evaluation of a mental health outreach programme, amongst other roles. Harriet is a core member of the Senses of Health/care Collective (led by the University of Bristol), who have a Special Issue of The Senses and Society journal coming out later this year.
Dr Joseph Lindley runs Design Research Works a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship which aims to understand, gather evidence about, and promote leadership for Design Research. He is interested in the role that Design Research plays in understanding rapidly-changing relatonships between individuals, society, and technology. Joe is based at Lancaster University.
Sally Sutherland is the course leader of MA Sustainable Design and the co-founder of the Radical Methodologies Research Group at the University of Brighton. She is currently completing her AHRC Design Star funded Doctoral Research, also at the University of Brighton, with supervisors in both Design and Public Health. Sally uses practice research in design to observe, engage and intervene in contemporary UK public breastfeeding discourses. Her research focuses on gender, care, culture and motherhood.
Mafalda Gamboa is a PhD researcher and lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She has written a number of design autoethnographies, including on her experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Mafalda has a background in architecture, concept-driven visual methods and sketching.
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Assa Assuach is Course Leader, MA Design for Industry 5.0; Senior Lecturer in Digital Futures at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. His practice and research explores innovation and the development of new industrial design methodologies within digital design and manufacturing. Assa is also visiting lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and the Royal College of Art in London.
Dr Viktor Bedö is a designer and researcher with a background in philosophy and more than 15 years of experience in critical reflection, playful prototyping, foresight and speculative design across academia and industry. His research practice is concerned with making and fiction-based design methods invested in imaginaries of just and care-based urban infrastructures. He is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Institute Creative Futures at Loughborough London and a Visiting Professor at the FHNW Critical Media Lab.