Storytellers

Doenja Oogjes (she/her)

is a design researcher focusing on the relations between design and more-than-human worlds. She is an Assistant Professor at the department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. Informed by feminist posthumanism, she develops design strategies, crafts research products and conducts long-term field studies. She aims to strengthen the imaginative and speculative potential of design by developing vocabularies and tools.

Heidi Biggs (they/she)

is a design researcher and Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Their research on environmental sustainability explores the way certain narratives of progress, success, innovation, and binary orientations entangle us into certain material orientations and relationships. Their research seeks the unbinding and reframing said narratives through design explorations that are tangible, embodied, and situated, in hopes of finding more sustainable orientations and paths forward.

Audrey Desjardins (she/her)

is a design researcher who speculatively and critically examines how people live with technology and reimagines the familiar co-existence of humans and things. She is an associate professor in interaction design in the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington. Her recent projects touch on ways to inquire and reclaim personal data through crafting, sonifying, fictionalizing, and materializing ways of living with that data. She designs to articulate questions, to propose alternatives and to provoke reflection.

Nadia Campo Woytuk (she/they)

is a PhD student in Interaction Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, exploring critical feminist design of technologies for the intimate body and the social and environmental ecologies it entangles. Her PhD work draws from feminist posthumanities to explore how to design for experiences of menstruation, fertility, sexual and reproductive health in ways that uplift embodied, sensory and material knowledge. Nadia is interested in fabrication with textiles and biomaterials, and brings together participatory and speculative approaches in her research.

Sylvia Janicki (she/her)

is a design researcher exploring how disability perspectives can contribute to alternative environmental relations and new ways of designing with technologies. She is a PhD candidate in Digital Media at Georgia Tech. Her research brings together disability theory and more-than-human scholarship to reimagine data and sensing practices through creative, material scholarship, drawing heavily from first-person narratives of chronic illness. Her work seeks to build alliances between disability and ecological justice.

Karey Helms (she/her)

is a design researcher interested in situations where technology is often considered out of place, such as intimate settings of care or outdoor ecologies. She explores how “being human” is engaged with practically, conceptually, performatively, and/or materially. She is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University and an associate professor at Umeå Institute of Design.

Kristina Andersen (she/her)

is a design researcher currently working on how we may reperform and remake as a strategy to consider memories and uncertainty. She is an associate professor of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her work is situated in digital craftsmanship in the context of material practices of fiber-based things. She is especially interested in ephemeral archives and how they might point towards physical manifestations of new and different outcomes.

Laura Devendorf (she/her)

is a design researcher currently working on methods of archiving and communicating craft knowledge between communities of weavers and engineers. She is an assistant professor of Information Science and ATLAS Institute fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. She also directs the Unstable Design Lab, where she works with students to design interventions with technology that are characterized by reflection, negotiation, and humility.

Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard (she/her)

is a designer and researcher exploring feminist design of technologies for human and environmental health. She is curious about how the materiality of human bodies relates with ecologies, and uses research‐through‐design, participation of communities and speculative storytelling to design for social and environmental justice. She has a PhD in Interaction Design from Aarhus University in Denmark and has been a postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway, where she researched somatic approaches in design and more‐than‐human design.

Li Jönsson (she/her)

is Senior Lecturer in Design at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University. Her work focuses on STS, feminist techno-science, environmental participation and experimental design research. She is currently immersed in questioning and practices concerning design as memory making and embodied prefiguration. She currently co-organises the following research projects: Design after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures.