Annual Showcase

A poetic investigation in future design practices with generative AI. While offering greater efficiencies and new creative modalities, the use of generative AI in design will require increased reflexivity to build inclusive futures.

How have various data, values, humans, nonhumans, relationships, phenomena, and trends shaped the phenotypes (bodies, behaviours, rhythms) of tomatoes? And how might they continue to shape and be shaped by tomatoes in the future?

A cinematic voyage that invites the viewer to observe, contemplate, and reframe the meanings and effects of interfacing.

A designerly inquiry into Terms of Service (ToS) ecosystems that starts with renaming them as ToSspheres and continues with various modes of mapping and shifting perspectives on what we encounter as we ignore ToS policies.

The experiment explores the fluidity of human-AI relations through a subjective digital twin, revealing new orientations and possibilities for queering as a method to shape new directions in HCI research.

An open archive of (mis)interpretation of marginalized identities, cultures, stories, and places by generative AI for curious technologists, designers and artists, radical policymakers, and activists.

In response to the climate crisis, humans are recasting urban forests as infrastructures with digital technologies. How can digital twin simulation help us imagine healthier futures for us-with-the-forest?

Design and HCI have increasingly contended with issues of decoloniality in recent years. Interviews with design and tech professionals show that while there is a theoretical recognition of colonial issues, practical strategies to address them within institutional and collaborative constraints are challenging to outline.

The increasing use of AI in the public sector necessitates robust and inclusive governance practices that account for the well-being of diverse communities and publics.

AI algorithms have morphed from black boxes to shiny magic boxes. But what about the shifting and fluid relations we stash into these boxes?

A fieldwork exploration and collaboration with Masewal members, Mexico. How can the physicalisation of ancestral values, indigenous knowledge, and cooperation help translate and conceptualise cooperative and care-driven indigenous practices for the digital world?

Can examining existing designs and methodologies for agonistic values help create a framework for a participatory way of engaging with technology in a more inclusive and democratic way?

How can inclusive design meet transport engineering and deliver personalized routing algorithms that go beyond efficiency?

Ethnographic methods are central for researching how people perceive algorithms, yet continually bind the study to the “interaction” as the research site. In the Bitcoin Beach of the Salvadorian town El Zonte, we started to prototype methods to move ethnographies outside the interaction and into the everyday practices where notions of algorithms emerge.

This project aimed to build shared understandings of future AI systems through design, addressing gaps in stakeholder backgrounds, and undertaking holistic approaches. Speculative design and the stack from Freedom Lab facilitated discussions and reflections on residential shared mobility.

Algorithmic systems have been claimed to be the future of decision-making processes while also accused to be deeply problematic. But how fair do those who are subject to algorithmic decisions perceive these systems to be?

A speculative design consultancy specialized in pre-participatory design. We design products and scenarios that serve as vehicles to break down barriers between disciplines in care technology environments.

What is the place of Synthetic Data Generation within the realm of personalised travel recommendation algorithms?