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AI is not the answer. Based on our experience in research and development, it's about asking the right questions. Our expertise is in creating value through making complex systems tangible and engaging. We do this through:
We combine rigorous technical development with critical thinking and embodied design. We work at the intersection of philosophy, material culture, and technology.
Foundation models are not inert tools — they have personalities, failure modes, and embedded assumptions. We design the behavior of AI systems: how they respond, what they push back on, where they defer, and what they refuse. This is not prompt engineering. It is the design of how a system presents itself to the world.
We build systems that exist in the world materially. Sensory and affective interaction, physical computing, and making at the edge of what technology can be.
We engage in critical analysis that goes beyond compliance checklists. We bring the intellectual traditions most technologists have never encountered to the decisions they are making every day.
We ask not what AI can do for you, but what kind of organization you want to be in relation to it.
A knowledge infrastructure for a major historical archive that turns metadata into stories, where multiple historical perspectives become narrative trails, supporting nonlinear inquiry and remaining open to the different journeys that researchers, educators, and publics take through the same material. Built in collaboration with an incredible team of historians, designers, archivists and engineers.
Small autonomous robots that love each other, not you. Love Robots have their own relational life, designed to exist outside the logic of service and utility that governs almost every robotic system built today. A provocation and a prototype: What does it mean to build a system based on love instead of intelligence? Could robots teach humans something about love?
A specialized database powered by machine learning that matches symptoms, remedies, and medical advice from large volumes of unstructured data. Includes an experimental graphical interface visualising complex connections, with on-device training and storage for data security and energy efficiency.
We have built models for cross-cultural understanding and spatial intelligence — complex, specialized areas that require deep understanding of social phenomena rather than pattern recognition alone. Find out more here, find the code here.
An online space/time for discussing philosophy in relation to the latest technologies. Visit our Research page for details.
is a strategist, designer, and philosopher who bridges critical theory and technological innovation.
A pioneer in wearable technologies since 1995 and former fellow at Paul Allen's Interval Research Lab, she has led innovation projects at NCR's Knowledge Lab and IBM's Innovation Center, and holds multiple patents in wearable and tangible interface design. She has developed strategic innovation systems for Ralph Lauren, DuPont, UNESCO, Christie's, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Beiersdorf/Nivea—translating complex technological futures into actionable strategies.
Named one of New York's "Six Most Interesting Women in Tech," she is founding faculty at SVA's Design for Social Innovation MFA and has taught at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program for nearly two decades. She holds Masters degrees in Philosophy (KU Leuven) and Interactive Telecommunications (NYU), and a practice-based PhD from the Royal College of Art exploring AI as material infrastructure. LinkedIn
is an award-winning hardware and software developer and researcher fusing design with cultural insights and technical excellence.
He has led an AI research group at Coventry University, launched and led the Information Experience Design programme at the Royal College of Art in London, and worked with organisations including Centre Pompidou, CNBC, Samsung, Serpentine. His work has been deployed and exhibited internationally, he is a frequent invited speaker, and he has published and taught in design and data visualisation – books include AI and Algorithmic Aesthetics (forthcoming) and Interior Futures (2019).
He is trained in anthropology, interactive telecommunications and education. Find his technology newsletter here, his spatial practice here. LinkedIn
"Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical." — Philip Agre, 1997