Speakers

Ramia Mazé is Professor in Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, United Kingdom. Previously, in Finland, she was a professor and head of education in the Department of Design at Aalto University and, prior to that, she worked at Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the national doctoral school Designfakulteten, and the Interactive Institute in Sweden. A designer and architect by training, her 2008 PhD in interaction design conceptualized and demonstrated design in terms of temporality and futurity. She has led, published, and exhibited widely through major interdisciplinary and international practice-based design research projects, most recently in social and sustainable design, design activism and design in government and policy-making. She specialises in participatory, critical and politically engaged design practices, as well as “research through design” and feminist epistemologies.

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Stephanie Hankey is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Tactical Tech, an international NGO working at the forefront of public and decision maker education on the politics of technology, where she leads workstreams on Climate, Nature and AI and the impact of Big Tech on young people.Stephanie is an award winning creative practitioner, designing public engagement initiatives that have been shown in over 90 countries. She has worked to build the capacity of decision makers on ethics, technology and society for over 20 years, from the Android Futures Team at Google to the UK House of Lords. She was made an Ashoka Fellow for her pioneering work on critical thinking and public engagement on digital literacy, she was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, a Rockefeller Bellagio resident on Climate and AI, served on the European expert panel on Digitalisation for Sustainability, is a visiting professor at the FHP, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and an expert for the UK Design Council on People and Planet . Stephanie has a Bachelors in Design History from the Manchester Metropolitan University and a Masters in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art.