Michelle Kasprzak, Justin Pickard

Michelle Kasprzak is an artist, writer, and curator. She is currently a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute on the subject of social innovation in extreme scenarios, supervised by Christopher Csíkszentmihályi. She has developed and delivered curriculum for the New Frontiers and Open Design Minor programmes (Willem de Kooning Academy) and the Master’s Education in Arts (Piet Zwart Institute) at Hogeschool Rotterdam.|Justin Pickard is a writer and anthropologist. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Sussex’s STEPS Centre, where he is writing a thesis on infrastructure and sociotechnical change in urban India.

michelle.kasprzak@m-iti.org|j.f.pickard@sussex.ac.uk