IUP_JI@MCTS
IUP_JI@MCTS is a loosely assembled collective based at TU Munich that pursues earnest and sceptical questioning of researchers acting in the name of modernity. IUP_JI@MCTS is dogmatically committed to actor-network theory concepts from the 90’s and has been called idiotic, apparently a compliment. The collective may have wilfully misunderstood the concept of “reset” as it […]
Ignacio Farías
Ignacio Farías is assistant professor at the Munich Center for Technology in Society and the Department of Architecture of the Technical University of Munich. His most recent work explores the politics of urban environmental disruptions associated to tsunamis, the heat-island effect and environmental noise, as well as the challenges of technical democratization, especially in the […]
Yana Boeva, Bruno Chies
Yana Boeva is a PhD candidate in Science & Technology Studies at York University, Toronto, working on participatory maker/DIY practices in relationship to design and definitions of expertise. Currently, she is in her fourth-year conducting a multi-sited ethnography of design-focused makerspaces, fab labs, other related communities, and their actors. Her background is in media and […]
Cristina Popescu
Cristina Popescu is a postdoctoral researcher at Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, France. Her scientific background is as junior lecturer and researcher in different projects concerning inclusive education for people with disabilities. She has closely worked with students using assistive technologies in French mainstream schools. Cristina Popescu has a PhD in sociology […]
Antonia Walford
Antonia’s research examines the relationship between digital practices and emergent forms of engagement with nature and the environment. She completed her PhD in 2013, and is currently a teaching fellow and honorary research associate at the Centre for Digital Anthropology at University College London. In January she will also take up a post-doctoral research position […]
Kat Braybrooke
Kat Braybrooke is a critical designer and researcher who has spent the past 10 years exploring the ways open technologies and creative, hands-on methods can empower underserved communities. Her current PhD research, “Hacking the Museum Together?” is funded by the University of Sussex Digital Humanities Lab and explores the social, cultural and political ecosystems of […]
Michelle Kasprzak
Bio: Michelle Kasprzak is a PhD student at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute and the University of Porto, under the supervision of Chris Csikszentmihalyi (M-ITI) and Sandra Silva (University of Porto). michelle.kasprzak@m-iti.org
Mariacristina Sciannamblo
Mariacristina Sciannamblo holds a PhD in Sociology and Applied Social Sciences from University of Rome Sapienza. Her dissertation work focuses on gender and feminist critique of Information Technology (IT). Her research interests concern Science and Technology Studies, gender and feminist studies of technoscience, media and cultural studies, politics of IT, and discourses around methods. Since […]
Annouchka Bayley
Annouchka Bayley has just completed her PhD in developing posthuman approaches to teaching and learning in higher education at Warwick University, UK. She has published several articles and book chapters on transdisciplinary education and has a forthcoming monograph with Palgrave Macmillan. In 2014 she won the Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence. As an artist she […]
Anna Mann and Laura Watts
Anna Mann is a PostDoc researcher at the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. Her research investigates how ‘the good’ is created in socio-material practices. It uses ethnographic methods to illuminate currently the case of the making of ‘quality of life’ in medical practices, and previously moments in which something ‘tastes good’. The ethnographic research […]
