Catherine Wieczorek, Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract This talk explores time as a form of infrastructure, something not only scheduled or measured but built, sustained, and contested through everyday institutional practice. Temporal patterns such as delays, shifting priorities, and overlapping demands are not simply dysfunctions to be resolved, but are fundamental to how systems behave […]

Sebastian Prost, City St. George's University of London Abstract: Digital technologies in agriculture are typically portrayed as enabling more sustainable production while increasing productivity. Yet, commercial solutions rarely address the root causes of unsustainable farming, preventing more radical solutions such as agroecology taking root. In this talk, I will present findings from fieldwork with 11 […]

Jesse Benjamin, TU Eindhoven Abstract: The rapidly solidifying design conventions around generative ‘AI’ interfaces call for more in-depth designerly responses to the materiality of such systems. While machine learning (ML) systems’ seeming immateriality and obscure technical properties have been engaged by design researchers, such engagements are largely ad hoc and lack cohesion into a larger […]

Noura Howell, University of Southern Denmark Abstract: Society is urgently seeking more ethical, sustainable futures. Howell's research leverages emotion, embodiment, and imagination as powerful capabilities that designers can leverage to support more ethical, sustainable alternatives around data and AI: (1) Design futuring with children to envision sustainable community futures, (2) Embodied interactions for critically interrogating […]