Bureau Double is a creative studio focused on cultural, institutional, and fashion sectors, specializing in identity, web, and editorial design. Their cross-disciplinary practice explores alternative tools for ethically-driven, tailored outcomes, moving beyond standard production.

Vicky Yongkun Wu is a senior undergraduate student pursuing a dual degree at Duke University (Durham, US) and Duke Kunshan University (Kunshan, China). Majoring in media and arts, she focuses on issues related to gender and sexuality, affect theory, and technocultural studies. She is multilingual (Chinese, English, French, and Korean) and conducts cross-cultural research in contemporary Chinese and South Korean literary and visual cultures. 

Dominika Čupková is an interdisciplinary designer connecting the dots between AI, art, design and tech with experience in PR, marketing and research. Currently a visiting doctoral researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is affiliated with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where she explores what happens at the intersection of AI and design through a feminist lens. She is also a part of the global community AIxDESIGN, where she leads communications, and she co-founded the Ladies, Wine & Design Slovakia initiative. Through various initiatives, she strives to bring forth alternative narratives with the aim of envisioning and creating a fairer and more inclusive AI.

Antonella is a design researcher at the Institute of Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). Her work explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and design, with a strong focus on developing innovative methodologies that integrate AI into design education. She is also a PhD candidate in Design at RMIT University in Melbourne. Her research investigates self-reflective practices aimed at fostering bias-resilient and bias-resistant approaches to artificial intelligence technologies. Her work reimagines AI as both a lens for critically examining societal structures and a research tool for interrogating the assumptions that shape technological development. By integrating design methodologies, she critically engages with data-driven systems and explores how values and biases are embedded in technological frameworks.

Antonella is the co-founder of the Data Driven Design module at the Master of Arts in Interaction Design at SUPSI and the coordinator and teacher of the Data Visualization course at IED in Turin, which she founded in 2021. Her teaching emphasizes the creative and critical integration of data, design, and technology to address complex social and environmental challenges.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design and a Master’s degree in Communication Design from the Politecnico di Milano, where she developed a thesis project Video Summarisation Toolkit with the Density Design research lab, the King’s College and the University of Amsterdam’s New Media aimed at developing new digital methods for the analysis and synthesis of video data collections to facilitate the study of these materials in the context of social web research.

Ketty Steward is a poet, essayist, and author of fantasy and science-fiction texts. She chairs the association Réseau Université de la Pluralité, which focuses on alternative imaginaries of the future. A clinical psychologist and holder of a doctorate in psychology (Paris 8 – LPPC), she works on the role of narrative in care.

Elise Bonnard is an author of fiction, poetry, and sound art, and she also stages her texts in performances. She enjoys playing the roles of scientists, foreign creatures, or both. Her alter ego, an android named Polaire, is the protagonist of the short story Tout est chaos, co-written with Wendy Delorme and published in the magazine La Déferlante. Elise also facilitates writing workshops at Lyon 3 University and with the micro-publishing association Papier Charbon, creating collective narratives around the theme of desirable futures. https://elisebonnard.com/

Tammara Leites was born and raised in Uruguay and currently lives in Geneva. She has always been passionate about technology and how society interacts with this medium. After studying programming, graphic design, and visual communication, and in order to design projects that allow her to combine her interests with her creativity, she decided to undertake a Master’s degree in Media Design at the Geneva University of Art and Design. At the same time, she joined Transmii Studio as Director of New Technologies. Her work takes the form of a reflection on what it means to be a constantly connected human being.

Maud Bourgeois is a research master’s student in the Design Department at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France. With a degree in aesthetics and art theory, she focuses on issues related to the representation of bodies, human-machine interactions, and the ways in which design shapes our relationship to the world. She joined the FuckingTech project as an intern at IRAD.

Anthony Masure is an associate professor and head of research at the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO). His work focuses on the social, political, and aesthetic implications of digital technologies for design, with a particular emphasis in recent years on the challenges of machine learning and blockchain technologies. He co-founded the research journals Back Office and Réel-Virtuel. He is the author of the essays Design et humanités numériques (B42, 2017) and Design sous artifice : la création au risque du machine learning (HEAD – Publishing, 2023), and co-edited the collective work Angles morts du numérique ubiquitaire – Un glossaire critique et amoureux (ArTeC, 2023). He is a founding member of Hint3rland (2022), a creative studio for the decentralized world.

Saul Pandelakis is an Associate Professor in Design at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (France), illustrator, and science fiction author. His research connects queer studies, kitchen spaces, sexualities, and digital media. His first novel, The Aardtman Sequence, was published in 2021 by Éditions Goater, followed in 2023 by The Hygialogues of Ty Petersen and several short stories in anthologies.