Writing & Design Research

Prototypes, writing, workshops and installations exploring themes of data, AI and neuroscience.

Writing & Workshops

Beyond Human Centred Design - We need a new approach for designing with AI (2021)
Networked technology has networked effects. Does HCD still make sense when we’re designing for AI?

Beyond Human Centred Design - Designing with the climate (2022)
How designing in relationship objects and environments changes how we design systems.

Every data set has a setting (2021)
Workshop for Uroboros Festival organised by the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague.

Being Objects / Being AI (2021)
A workshop for MSc students about object based ontology and AI.

The god trick in data and design (2020)
Data’s now a design material, and design is a conduit for data collection. A caution for the combination of these new bedfellows.

Magic boxes & machine learning— the problem with the black box metaphor (2020)
A linguistic analysis of what the ‘black box’ metaphor allows us to overlook.

Relational AI ethics (2020)
A consideration of what the potential implications of non-Western ethical frameworks like Ubuntu might be for the use of data and AI,

AXNS: Exhibitions & Events

  • The Sentimental Machine, State Festival, Berlin (2016)

  • London Students Neuroscience Conference, Imperial College, London (2016)

  • Material & Mechanical, Science Museum, London (2015)

  • Database Matter, The Cube, London (2015)

  • William Blake: Artist of Visions, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2015)

  • When Science Fiction Becomes Reality, Southbank Centre, London (2015)

  • Neuroplasticity & the web, Southbank Centre, London (2015)

  • Sculpting Motion, Gerald Moore Gallery, London (2015)

  • Fractured Visions: To See Again, London Bridge (2014)