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Alex Wilkie is Professor of Design and Societies at Goldsmiths, University of London.  His work employs empirical social research and experimental design to examine, explore and intervene in sociotechnical future–making practices and more-than-human sociality. Alex’s work cuts across and ties together science and technology studies (STS), empirical philosophy, process theory and speculative reasoning as well as human-computer interaction (HCI), practice-based design research and design theory. He is also a series editor of Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS alongside Mike Michael and has recently setup the Design Societies Research Unit, with Sarah Pennington, at Goldsmiths.

Latest article: The aesthetics of more-than-human design: speculative energy briefs for the Chthulucene, co-authored with Mike Michael.

Forthcoming in the Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS series: More-than-human aesthetics: Venturing beyond the bifurcation of nature.

Biography

Alex Wilkie is Professor of Design and Societies at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work combines science and technology studies (STS), ethnography, empirical philosophy and experimental design research as well as social theory. Alex brings these various commitments to bear on a number of theoretical, substantive and methodological concerns that address questions of more-than-human futures, aesthetics, constructivist thought, healthcare, human-computer interaction design, public participation and engagement with science and technology, speculative reasoning and futures as well as  more-than-human sociality in times of climate crisis.

In collaboration with scholars in anthropology, philosophy, sociology and STS, Alex has published four volumes that aim to open up new domains for theoretically driven empirical and experimental research. The first, Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies & Displacements (edited with Ignacio Farías) takes inspiration from laboratory studies to set out a programme for the ethnographic study of studio practices and situated ‘creativity’. In doing so, the aim is to acknowledge and examine the studio as a critical site for the production of the new and the politics this entails.

The second, Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures (edited with Martin Savransky and Marsha Rosengarten), is an invitation for scholars and practitioners to take up the challenge of speculative thought to cultivate alternate ways of thinking and making futures. In contrast to other approaches to the speculative, this edited collection takes as its point of departure a particular lineage of thought that can be traced through the work of William James, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, John Dewey, Gilles Deleuze and more recently, Isabelle Stengers.

The third, Inventing the Social (edited with Noortje Marres and Michael Guggenheim), presents recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research and creative practice as, in part, a means to move beyond the performative idiom and critique of representationalism that has preoccupied much recent social theory. Here, the notion of invention operates as a demand to engage with the inherent creativity of social life, and the positional and reflexive participation of social research in processes of sociality, rather than a narrow view of social phenomena as engineered by knowledge practices.

More-than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature (edited with Melanie Sehgal), the fourth volume, proposes a new way of thinking, understanding, and researching aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more liveable futures in times of planetary crisis. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead and Félix Guattari, the book develops aesthetics as central to all more-than-human forms of (ontological) experience and feeling. Each contribution invites readers to explore how this broader, generalised, view of aesthetics can reshape knowledge practices including biomedicine, geological forensics, nuclear waste, race, as well as arts and education.

Alex is also engaged in a longstanding collaboration with the sociologist of science and technology Mike Michael in developing sociological accounts of design practice as well as devising theoretically informed approaches to interdisciplinary engagements between science and technology studies and experimental design research. This work cuts across various interplays between sociology and design, including developments in actor-network theory, the sociology of expectations, public engagement with science and technology, speculative thought and aesthetics as well as the politics of design. Alex and Mike have also been commissioned by Bristol University Press to conceive, develop and edit the book series Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS.

In the Department of Design, Alex is the Director of the PhD programme in Design Studies. He has supervised nine PhDs to completion and his teaching spans studio-based practice as well as seminars and lectures where he draws together social and cultural research, STS and design. In 2014 Alex set-up and led a Masters programme with an explicit emphasis on the interdisciplinary combination of design practice and STS. Alex was a member of the Interaction Research Studio from 2006 to 2021 where worked on numerous practice-led design research projects, notably Energy and Co-Designing Communities.

Also at Goldsmiths, Alex is a Director of the Design Societies Research Unit with Sarah Pennington. This Research Unit has been setup to crystallise and capitalise on expertise in Design and STS at Goldsmiths. Prior to this, Alex was a Director of the Centre of Invention and Social Process (née Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process) alongside Marsha Rosengarten and Michael Guggenheim from 2016 – 2021. Since being founded by Andrew Barry and opened by Bruno Latour in 2003, the centre, hosted by the Department of Sociology, played an active and distinctive role in contributing to the development of STS as well as sociological research more broadly. Here, the focus on ‘invention’ as both a topic and approach for scholarly practitioners relates to questions around newness and the approaches of how to grasp the new that are not indifferent to its emergence. The centre has been directed by a variety of scholars including Andrew Barry, Mariam Motamedi-Fraser, Mike Michael and Noortje Marres.

Prior to Goldsmiths, Alex gained a Masters in Computer Related Design (CRD) from the Royal College of Art (1997–1999) and subsequently worked as a Designer in Residence as part of the Design and Media Research Fellowship at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht – possibly the first design and STS interdisciplinary research project. Working alongside Noortje Marres and Richard Rogers amongst others, Alex was involved in developing and designing the first digital tools and methods (e.g. the Issuecrawler) for mapping knowledge politics and controversy on the web. Alex gained his PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths in 2010, an ethnographic study of user-centered designers working in human-computer interaction and the associated role of users as more-than-human participants in their design practices. His research was financially supported by a Whitehead Scholarship and an EPSRC doctoral training grant.

Alex has peer-reviewed for the following scientific journals, conferences, publishers and organisations: ACM Designing Interactive Systems; Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Artnodes;  Co-Design; Design and CultureDesign IssuesDesign Research Society; Design Studies;  Environment and Planning AEnvironment and Planning D; Human-Computer Interaction; Journal of Cultural Economy; Microsoft ResearchMIT Press; The National Science Foundation (NSF); The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific ResearchParseScience, Technology & Human Values; Science & Technology StudiesSocial Studies of Science; Science as Culture; SIGCHI; Sociological Research Online ; Space as Culture; Subjectivity; The Sociological Review, and; UKRI.

Publications

Books

Sehgal, M. Wilkie, A. (2024). More-than-human aesthetics: Venturing beyond the bifurcation of nature. Bristol University Press. Bristol. ISBN 978-1529227789

Marres, N. Guggenheim, M. Wilkie, A. (2018) Inventing the Social. Mattering Press. Manchester. ISBN (ebook): 978-0-9955277-6-8, ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9955277-5-1

Boucher, A., Gaver, B., Kerridge, T., Michael, M., Ovalle, L., Plummer-Fernandez, M., Wilkie, A. (2018) Energy BabbleMattering Press. Manchester. ISBN (ebook) 978-0-9955277-3-7, ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9955277-2-0

Wilkie, A. Savransky, M. Rosengarten, M.  (2017) Speculative research: The lure of  possible futuresCRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138688360

Farías, I. Wilkie, A. (2015) Studio studies: Operations, topologies & displacements. CRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN 9781138798717

Book Chapters

Wilkie, A. (2024) To err is more than more-than-human: Patient safety and the aesthetics of a Never Event, in M. Sehgal. A, Wilkie. More-than-human aesthetics: Venturing beyond the bifurcation of nature. Bristol University Press. Bristol. ISBN 978-1529227789

Sehgal, M. Wilkie, A. (2024) Beyond the bifurcation of nature: Tracing more-than-human aesthetics in times of socio-ecological crisis, in M. Sehgal. A, Wilkie. More-than-human aesthetics: Venturing beyond the bifurcation of nature. Bristol University Press. Bristol. ISBN 978-1529227789

Wilkie, A. and Michael, M. (2023) Before the idiot, the poet? Aesthetic figures and design, in M. Tironi, M. Chilet, P. Hermansen and C. Marín (eds), Design for more-than-human futures: Towards post-anthropocentric worlding, London; New York, NY, Routledge. ISBN 9781032334400.

Michael M., Wilkie A. (2020) Speculative Research. In: Glăveanu V. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_118-1

Wilkie, A. (2019). How well does ANT equip designers for socio-material speculations? In Blok, A. Farías, I. & Roberts, C. (eds) A Routledge companion to actor-network theory. Routledge, London; New York. ISBN 9781032475486

Marres, N. Guggenheim, M. Wilkie, A. (2018) Introduction: From performance to inventing the social. In Inventing the Social. Marres, N. Guggenheim, M. Wilkie, A. (eds). Mattering Press. ISBN (ebook): 978-0-9955277-6-8, ISBN (Paperback) 978-0-9955277-5-1

Kimbell, L. Guggenheim, M. Marres, N. Wilkie, A. (2018) Inventive tensions: A conversation. In Inventing the Social. Marres, N. Guggenheim, M. Wilkie, A. (eds). Mattering Press. ISBN (ebook): 978-0-9955277-6-8, ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9955277-5-1

Wilkie, A. (2018) Speculating. in Lury, C., Clough, P., Chung, U., Fensham, R., Lammes, S., Last, A., Michael, M., & Uprichard E. Routledge handbook of interdisciplinary research methods (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN-10: 1138886874, ISBN-13: 978-1138886872

Wilkie, A. (2018) Studios, problems, publics. in Boucher, A., Gaver, B., Kerridge, T., Michael, M., Ovalle, L., Plummer-Fernandez, M., Wilkie, A. (eds) Energy Babble. Mattering Press. Manchester. ISBN: (ebook) 978-0-9955277-3-7, ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9955277-2-0

Wilkie, A. (2018) Sound design. in Boucher, A., Gaver, B., Kerridge, T., Michael, M., Ovalle, L., Plummer-Fernandez, M., Wilkie, A. (2018) Energy Babble. Mattering Press. Manchester. ISBN: (ebook) 978-0-9955277-3-7, ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9955277-2-0

Wilkie, A. (2017) Prototyping as event: Designing the future of obesity. in Corsin Jimenez, A. (ed). Prototyping cultures: Art, science and politics in beta. Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 9781138693746

Wilkie, A., Michael, M. (2018) Designing and doing: Enacting energy and community. in Inventing the Social. Marres, N. Guggenheim, M. Wilkie, A. (2018). Mattering Press. ISBN (ebook): 978-0-9955277-3-7, ISBN (Paperback): 978-0-9955277-5-1

Wilkie, A., Rosengarten, M., Savransky, M. (2017) Speculative techniques (section introduction). in Wilkie, A. Savransky, M. Rosengarten, M.  (2017) Speculative Research: The lure of the possibleCRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 9781138688360

Savransky, M., Rosengarten, M., Wilkie, A. (2017) Speculative propositions (section introduction). in Wilkie, A. Savransky, M. Rosengarten, M.  (2017) Speculative Research: The lure of the possibleCRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 9781138688360

Rosengarten, M., Savransky, M., Wilkie, A. (2017) Speculative lures (section introduction). in Wilkie, A. Savransky, M. Rosengarten, M.  (2017) Speculative Research: The lure of the possibleCRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 9781138688360

Savransky, M., Wilkie, A., Rosengarten, M. (2017) Speculative implications (section introduction). in Wilkie, A. Savransky, M. Rosengarten, M.  (2017) Speculative Research: The lure of the possibleCRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 9781138688360

Wilkie, A. Michael, M. (2017) Doing speculation to curtail speculation. in Wilkie, A. Savransky, M. Rosengarten, M.  (2017) Speculative Research: The lure of the possibleCRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 9781138688360

Savransky, M. Wilkie, A. Rosengarten, M. (2017) The lure of possible futures: On speculative research. in Wilkie, A. Savransky, M. Rosengarten, M.  (2017) Speculative Research: The lure of the possibleCRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 9781138688360

Farías, I., Wilkie, A. (2015) Studio studies: notes for a research programme. in  Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies & Displacements. Farías, I. Wilkie, A. (eds). CRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 978-1-13-879871-7

Born, G., Wilkie, A. (2015) Temporalities, aesthetics and the studio: an interview with Georgina Born. in  Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies & Displacements. Farías, I. Wilkie, A. (eds). CRESC Series, Routledge, London; New York, NY. ISBN: 978-1-13-879871-7

Wilkie, A., Mattozzi, A. (2014). ‘Learning Design Through Social Science‘. About Learning and Design, Eds. Camuffo, G., Dalla Mura, M., Mattozzi, A. University of Bolzano Press. ISBN: 978-88-6046-067-7

Journal Articles

Wilkie, A. Micheal, M. (2023). The aesthetics of more-than-human design: Speculative energy briefs for the Chthulucene. Human-Computer Interaction. 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/07370024.2023.2276392

Michael, M. Wilkie, A. Ovalle, L. (2018). Aesthetics and Affect: Engaging Energy CommunitiesScience as Culture. 1-25. DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2018.1490709.

Wilkie, A., Farías, I., & Sánchez Criado, T. (2018). Por una estética especulativa de la descripción: Entrevista a Alex Wilkie. Entrevistadores: I. Farías, & T. Sánchez Criado. Diseña, (12), 70-87. Doi: 10.7764/disena.12.70-87.

Wilkie, A., Farías, I., & Sánchez Criado, T. (2018). For a Speculative Aesthetics of Description: Interview with Alex Wilkie. Interviewers: I. Farías, & T. Sánchez Criado. Diseña, (12), 70-87. Doi: 10.7764/disena.12.70-87.

Wilkie, A., Michael, M., Plummer-Fernandez, M. (2014) ‘Speculative Method and Twitter: Bots, Energy and Three Conceptual Characters’, Sociological Review. DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12168

Wilkie, A (2013). Prototyping as Event: Designing the Future of Obesity. Journal of Cultural Economy. DOI:10.1080/17530350.2013.859631.

Wilkie, A. (2011). Regimes of Design, Logics of UsersAthenea Digital, Volume 11, Number 1, pp. 317-334

Wilkie, A., Gaver, W., Hemment, D. and G. Giannachi (2010) Creative Assemblages: Organisation and Outputs of Practice-led Research. Leonardo, Volume 43, Number 1, February 2010, pp. 98-99

Wilkie, A. Michael, M. (2009) Expectation and Mobilisation: Enacting future users. Science, Technology and Human Values,Vol. 34, No. 4, 502-522. DOI: 10.1177/1054773804271935

Marres, N. Wilkie, A. (1999) Remote/Involved: Highlights from Outer Space.If/Then: Design Implications of New Media. (eds) Abraham, J. Netherlands Design Institute. ISBN-10: 9072007522

Conference Papers & Invited Lectures

Jönsson, L., Tironi, M., Hermansen, P., and Wilkie, A. (2022) Doing and Undoing Post-Anthropocentric Design, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.1068

Wilkie, A. (2016). Energy and Aesthetic Experience: Engaging Communities of Despair. In 4S/EASST 2016: Science and technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures. Barcelona. Friday 2nd September.

Wilkie, A. (2016). Introduction: Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics and Design. In: P. Lloyd & E. Bohemia, eds., Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society – Future-Focused Thinking, Volume 3, pp 873-879, DOI 10.21606/drs.2016.509, ISSN 2398-3132.

Wilkie, A. (2011) Some notes Towards Speculative Design & Science and Technology Studies. Keynote Lecture, Design & the Social. Centre for Co-Design Research, The Danish Design School, Copenhagen.

Gaver, W., M. Michael, T. Kerridge, A. Wilkie, A. Boucher, L. Ovalle, and M. Plummer-Fernandez (2015) ‘Energy Babble: Mixing Environmentally-Oriented Internet Content to Engage Community Groups’. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2015.

Wilkie, A., Michael, M., Plummer-Fernandez, M. (2014) ‘Speculative Method and Twitter: Bots, Energy and Three Conceptual Characters’. British Sociological Association Annual Conference 2014, University of Leeds Wednesday 23 – Friday 25 April 2014.

Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Bowers, J., Blythe, M., Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Kerridge, T., Wilkie, A., Phillips, R., Wright, P., (2011). The photostroller: supporting diverse care home residents in engaging with the world, in: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 1757–1766.

Wilkie, A. (2010). Prototyping the Prospects of Obesity. In: Prototyping Cultures: Social Experimentation, Do‐It‐Yourself Science and Beta‐Knowledge. Spanish National Research Council, Madrid 4‐5 November 2010.

Wilkie, A. (2010). Participation, Translation & Accountability. In: Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.

Wilkie, A. (2010). Enacting Users, Mediating Publics. In: EASST 2010: Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social. Trento, Italy.

Wilkie, A. and Ward, M. (2009). ‘Made in Criticalland: Designing Matters of Concern ‘. In: Networks of Design., Falmouth, United Kingdom.

Wilkie, A. (August 2008) Prototyping Health Care Users. Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) 2008 Joint Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Gaver, W. Boucher, A. Law, A, Pennington, S. Bowers, J. Beaver, J. Humble, J. Kerridge, T. Villar, N. Wilkie, A. (2008) Threshold Devices: Looking Out From the HomeConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. Florence, Italy.

Wilkie, A. Michael, M. (June 2007) Colonizing the Spectrum: Enacting Future UsersNegotiating the FutureCentre for Technology Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo.

Wilkie, A. Michael, M. (March 2007) Colonizing the Spectrum: Enacting Future Users. Market, Economics, Culture and Performativity. Goldsmiths, University of London.

Patents

Raptopoulos, A. Klein, V. Rothwell, N. Morris, I. Wilkie, A. (2005) Electronic sound screening system and method of accoustically improving the environment. US20050254663A1.

Presentations

July 6th 2023. More-than-human aesthetics: Ventures beyond the bifurcation of nature. Presented alongside Inventive Care Politics in Design by Sarah Pennington. Carenet Research Group seminar, Hub Interdisciplinari de Recerca i Innovació de la UOC, Barcelona.

October 26th 2022. Beyond the bifurcation of nature: Rethinking aesthetics in contemporary knowledge practices. With Melanie Sehgal. Kolloquium zur Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung. Bergische Universität Wuppertal.

October 8th 2021. Compossiblities of a Never Event. Re-thinking and experimenting with participatory research practices and design through the speculative and ontological turn. 4S Annual Meeting 2021. Good Relations: Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds. Toronto.

November 18th 2020. Speculative Research & Energy Futures (Investigación especulativa y futuros energéticos). Seminario SDT 14. Facultad de Architecture, Diseño y Estudio Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Catôlica de Chile. With commentary by Delfina Fantini va Ditmar and chaired by Martin Tironi.

Friday 26th June 2020. The Aesthetics of a Never Event: Prehensions and Clinical Malpractice. Adventures in Aesthetics: Rethinking Aesthetics Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature. Thursday 25th June – Wednesday 1st July. Goldsmiths, University of London.

January 23rd 2020. Engaging Energy Communities: Three Techniques of Participation. Living Innovation: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research on Living Materials, 22nd – 23rd January, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.

February 19th 2018. Aesthetics & Affect: Engaging Energy Communities. Intimate Entanglements, 19th–20th February, York Medical Society, The Sociological Review.

September 18th 2017. Aesthetics & Engagement with Energy Communities. Experiments in Evaluation. 18–19th September, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University.

September 2nd 2016. Energy and Aesthetic Experience: Engaging Communities of Despair. In 4S/EASST 2016: Science and technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures. Barcelona.

June 2016. Introduction: Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics and Design. In: P. Lloyd & E. Bohemia, eds., Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society – Future-Focused Thinking, Volume 3, pp 873-879, DOI 10.21606/drs.2016.509, ISSN 2398-3132. Brighton University.

March 16th 2016. Designing  Research Devices: Speculative Method and Energy-demand Reduction. Lecture given at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), Social Sciences, University of Warwick.

October 14th 2014. Doing Speculation to Curtail Speculation (co-author Mike Michael), Symposium Presentation Given at ‘Experience as Evidence? A Symposium on the Sciences of Subjectivity in Healthcare, Policy and Practice‘, University of Oxford.

May 29th-30th, 2014, Speculative method and Twitter: Bots, energy and three conceptual characters (co-author Mike Michael & Matthew Plummer-Fernandez) Inventing the Social: Celebrating 10 years of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process. Conference organised with Noortje Marres & Michael Guggenheim.

May 3rd  2014. Doing Speculation to Curtail Speculation (co-author Mike Michael). Speculation and Speculative Research Workshop, Unit of Play, Goldsmiths, University of London (Workshop organised by Jennifer Gabrys, Marsha Rosengarten, Martin Savransky & Alex Wilkie).

April 25th 2014. ‘Speculative Method and Twitter: Bots, Energy and Three Conceptual Characters‘, Conference Paper Presented at the Panel ‘Speculation in Social Science: Novel Methods for Re-Inventing Problems, British Sociological Association Annual Conference.

June 17th 2013. Designing the Future: Cosmopolitical Interventions, Organised by Alex Wilkie, Nina Wakeford and Michael Guggenheim and part of the ‘Austerity Futures: Imagining and materialising the future in an ‘age of austerity‘ ESRC seminar series.

December 19th 2013. Energy Babble and Speculative Method. Invited  TECUSO Research Seminar, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

June 9th 2012 ‘Critical Pathways in Design Anthropology‘, Panel Discussant, Royal Anthropological Institute Conference ‘Anthropology in the World‘, The British Museum, London.

June 1st 2012 ‘Noisy Engagements‘. Keynote given at the one-day workshop ‘Participatory Moves as Parasitic Relations in Senior Healthcare‘, ITU Copenhagen, Denmark.

February 3rd 2012 ‘Upside Down, Inside Out’: A Back-to-Front Reading, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.

September 27th 2011 Prototyping and the Prospects of Obesity. Presentation at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona.

June 28th 2011 User Involvement In Design: Some Implications from the Field, Conference Paper Presented at: ‘How’s My Feedback: The Technology and Politics of Evaluation’, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

February 16th 2011 Actor-Network Theory in Arts and Humanities Research, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London.

June 16th 2011 Speculative Design & Science and Technology Studies, Design & The Social Seminar Series, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schoolsof Architecture, Design and Conservation, Copenhagen.

November 4th & 5th 2010 Prototyping the Prospects of Obesity in Prototyping Cultures: Social Experimentation, Do-It-Yourself Science and Beta-KnowledgeCentro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC) and Medialab-Prado Madrid.

September 24th 2010 Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science, Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London.

November 20th 2009 Controversy and Publics: Mapping Issue Networks, Workshop, Design of Organizational IT FacultyIT University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

October 27th 2009 Mapping Issues, Topics and Controversies, Bringing New Developments in the Social Sciences into Design Education, Seminar,Manchester School of ArchitectureThe University of Manchester.

October 14th 2009 Attaching Ethnographic Users to ObjectsThe Objects of Design and Social Science Science Seminar Series, Interaction Research Studio, Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.

October 2009 – April 2010 The Objects of Design and Social Science, Design and Social Science Seminar Series. Organized with Bill Gaver, Mike Michael & Tobie Kerride on behalf of CSISP, Department of Sociology & the Interaction Research Studio seminar series, Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.

April 2009: Visiting CriticMedia Design Program graduate thesis review, Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena, California.

April 2009: Designing for Controversy. Seminar given at the Department of Design, Media and ArtsThe School of the Arts and ArchitectureUniversity of California, Los Angeles.

November 2008: Made in Criticalland: Designing Matters of Concern. Seminar given at the Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen.

November 2008: Users, Expectations and Design. Lecture given at theDanmarks Designskole, Copenhagen.

May 2008: Mapping Societies. Lecture given at Design InteractionsRoyal College of Art, London.

April 2008. The ‘Workaround’ as a Social Relation. With UCHRI-UCI,Anthropology and IntelCentre for the Study of DemocracyUC Irvine, USA.

January 2008. Prospecting Users: User-centered Design and Commerical social Science. Seminar given as part of the Design and Social Science series, CSISP, Goldsmiths, University of London.

June 2007. Negotiating the future. Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). University of Oslo.

May 2006-October 2006. Ethnographic fieldwork of user-centered designers and related innovation actors. Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.

May/June 2004. Inside & Outside Markets. Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CSI), École Des Mines, Paris.

October 2003. Re-visiting the ‘User’. Presentation to the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA), Design Council, London.

June 2003. Following the Displacement of Politics on the Web. CSISP, Goldsmiths. With Richard Rogers, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam & Govcomorg Foundation, Amsterdam. Noortje Marres, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam.

October 2000. Preferred Placement: The Hit Economy, Hyperlink Diplomacy and Web. Theatrum Anatomicum, de Waag, Society for Old and New Media Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam.