Conference Agenda

Hidden Constellations: Mapping Queer Sapphic Spatiality in New York City

Yuchun Zhang

Independent Researcher

Queer/cuir methodological approaches in activist design and art research in contemporary Brazil.

Guilherme Altmayer

University of São Paulo (USP), Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Brazil

Queering Design with a Queer Community: Co-creation, Translation, and Application of Queer-positive Design Principles

Colin Putman

University of Cincinnati

Unmaking AI’s classificatory ontologies: Situated annotation as design inquiry in human–AI assemblages

Antonella Autuori^1,2

1: Institute of Design (IDe), University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Mendrisio, Switzerland; 2: School of Design, RMIT Melbourne, Australia

Hacking as a queering design practice. Insights from a visual analysis of product hacking scenes in movies.

Julia Carrasco Parodi, Massimo Menichinelli, Guim Espelt Estopà

Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (UVic-UCC), Spain

Queer(ing) Epistemology by Design: TMI-WEB—A Relational Knowledge System for Intersectional Data Science and Affective Queries

Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them)¹, Coraline Ada Ehmke (she/her)²

1: DePaul University, Chicago, IL, United States; 2: Organization for Ethical Source (OES), Chicago, IL, United States

How epistemic uncertainty tolerance affects creative idea generation in design

Sue During¹, Michael Mose Biskjaer², Elger Abrahamse^1,3, Alwin de Rooij^1,4

1: Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands; 2: Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 3: Department of Psychology, University of Atlántico Medio, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; 4: Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology, Avans University of Applied Sciences, 's Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Absent Voices, Alternative Futures: What Design Issues Didn't Say About Design (1984-2025)

Yeqiu Yang^1,2

1: Future Design School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China; 2: Haikou University of Economics, China

Queering empathy in/for/with/by design

Jessica Meharry

DePaul University, United States of America

Designations drift: Exodesign and the epiphylogenesis of practice

Chris Sutevski

Australian National University, Australia

Negotiating Control with Materials: Progressive Modes of Engagement in Design Practice

Yuliang Kang, Enza Migliore, Jingze Liu

Southern University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of

Bodies in play: queering AI, sport, and medicine through design

Felix Kosok

German International University Berlin, Germany

Disrupting gender binaries in product language: A workshop on gender awareness

Martina Labarta Labrador, Francesca Mattioli, Silvia D. Ferraris

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Imperfect utopias: Norms in VR design and queer counter-strategies

Alexandra Chalmers Braithwaite

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Queering Portobello Promenade: testing ‘queer’ inclusive spatial design and thinking.

Kirsty Watt¹, Anna Reid²

1: Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Body Class, The Grand Museum and the Queer Archive

Tadeas Riha

Royal College of Art

Menopause Technologies Beyond Ableism and Normativity

Omleila Mohammadi^1,2, Sabine Thayer¹, Bernhard Maurer², Verena Fuchsberger¹

1: University of Salzburg, Austria; 2: Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg, Austria