Organizers

Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez (she/her)

is a design researcher working at the intersection of materiality, biodesign, and interaction design, with a PhD from the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, exploring biomaterials and textile-based fabrication.

Gabrielle Benabdallah (she/her)

is a design researcher working at the intersection of materiality, knowledge production, and computational systems. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington.

Doenja Oogjes (she/her)

is a design researcher working at the intersection of design and more-than-human worlds. She is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Sam Bourgault (she/they)

is an interdisciplinary artist and design researcher working with digital fabrication and robotic systems to support art and craft practices. She is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University’s School of Architecture.

Sylvia Janicki (she/her)

is a research scientist in Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, whose work combines humanistic theory and tangible interaction design to examine body–environment–technology relations through a critical disability lens.

Heidi Biggs (they)

is a design researcher and Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, whose work examines how narratives of progress and innovation shape ecological relations, and how design and making might imagine alternatives.

Mirela Alistar (she/her)

is a bioartist and HCI researcher, and an Assistant Professor in Soft Materials at the ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder. Her work bridges microbiology and HCI to extend design practice through biomaterials and their agency.

Kristina Andersen (she/her)

is a design researcher and Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, whose work explores digital craftsmanship, material practices, and remaking as a way to engage with uncertainty.