Iโm a researcher, strategist, and community organiser helping teams build radically equitable AI and anti-racist futures.
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a global community of designers, creative technologists, and activists using AI in pursuit of our shared justice and joy.
Project Lead, Archival Images of AI โ
This project explores how image-makers can remix and re-use digital heritage collections to make better images of AI.
Project Lead, Slow AI โ
Inspired by the counter-movements of slow fashion and slow food, this project will investigate three emerging AI counter-narratives โ Small AI ๐, Ancestral AI ๐, and Esoteric AI ๐ฎ โ and explore what it might look like to incorporate them in our everyday practice. We will interrogate and publish critical AI discourse in a format that makes sense to us and our practices, namely zines and creative technology installations, and at project end we will publish an anthology โ a hot compost pile of miro boards, zines, and art that we hope sparks new ways to think and talk about AI.
Areas of interest
/ applied AI research: How can we use AI for the benefit of people and communities?
/ researching the intersectional impacts of Big Tech, AI, capitalism;
/ translating abstract principles into tangible products & services;
/ the relationship between revenue models and discriminatory algorithmic outcomes;
/ antiracist + decolonial futures
Teams Iโve worked with
- British Council โ Circular Cultures Design School with Onassis Stegi
Where Iโve spoken
- Host โ AIxDesign Conversations
- Working Group co-Lead, Labour of Care, NEW INC.
- Associate Lecturer โ Central St Martins, Graphic Design (BA, MA)
- Course leader โ Circular Cultures Design School 2024 with Onassis Stegi. Strand B: Immateriality โ The limitless possibilities of digital space and cutting-edge technologies
- Co-host โ Mozfest workshops
- 2022, Designing for Data Rights with Nadia Piet, UKโs ICO
- Panelist โ Fiber Festival, Weaving with Worlds
- Panelist โ Critical UX, Critique and Hope
Bio โ last updated Oct 22 ๐ฅ
Work
โ research: desk research; stakeholder interviews; expert interviews; participatory workshops (in-person and online)
โ strategy: big data & AI product strategy; business strategy
โ communication: written & verbal. confident and approachable
โ applying antiracist approaches (ANTI) to the above ^^
โ translating complex ideas into understandable, and actionable chunks
โ navigating trade-offs between theory and practice
โ multi-stakeholder project management
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