Positioning AI – Politecnico di Torino – 2025-05 A presentation and conversation with my friend Maria Luce Lupetti unpacking the relationship between my own PhD work and research on AI and the work I’m doing at Arup on the imapcts of AI across the built environment industry. How futures and critical design practice can be brought to the question of working with AI in a larger corporate…
Tobias Revell in conversation with Niklas Egberts: Design and the Social Construction of AI – TU Dresden – 2025-05 In his presentation at Schaufler Lab, London-based designer, artist and researcher Tobias Revell shared insights from his PhD research on the role of design in the construction of AI. Among the strategies that Revell discussed are the construction of technological futures, the…
Design and The Construction of Imaginaries – Simon Fraser University – 2025-03 As futures are increasingly foreclosed by dominant tech narratives of power, speed, efficiency and consumption it’s increasingly important to question the role of design in constructing and telling these stories. This talk addresses some of the strategies and techniques used in constructing future imaginaries through…