Harry Yeff (Reeps100) in Conversation with Suhair Khan Harry Yeff, known as Reeps100, is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher, specialising in voice, technology and performance. He has visualised the voice for over 10 years, through cymatics, performance, sculpture, and film. Harry unpacks his practice with generative models in a 1:1 chat with Suhair followed by a performance. 🎤 This conversation is part of Technology & Design Lab, in partnership with London Design Festival ...

Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford), Rebecca Fiebrink (UAL) & Ben Cullen Williams (Ben Cullen Williams Studio) moderated by Suhair Khan Ben Cullen Williams, a London-based artist exploring the dynamic space between technology & nature, through sculptures, installations, and video. Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink Professor of Creative Computing at the University of Arts London and creator of the world’s first online class about machine learning for musicians and artists. Marcu...

Seetal Solanki (Ma-tt-er), & Chance Coughenour (Google Arts & Culture) moderated by Morgan Meaker Digitally preserving and democratising access to cultural heritage, Chance Coughenour coordinates cultural heritage preservation efforts on a global scale at Google Arts & Culture. Seetal Solanki, Author of "Why Materials Matter" (Prestel, 2018), is on a mission to transform our mindset around materials. Seetal is also the Founder and Director of Ma-tt-er. Morgan Meaker...

Ego Obi (Google), Konstantina Palla (Spotify) & Samantha Niblett (Labour: Women in Tech) moderated by Suhair Khan Ego Obi, a senior Google executive who has had almost two decades at the forefront of building technologies and business around the world, and is currently completing a PhD on Ethics & AI. Samantha Niblett the Founder of Labour: Women in Tech, a not-for-profit political organisation. Konstantina Palla, a machine learning researcher at Spotify, com...

In this conversation, Sougwen Chung (Scilicet Studio), Freya Murray (Google Arts & Culture), and Suhair Khan (open-ended design) talk about the confluence of machine learning and robotics with artistic practice. Could we imagine an engineer as an artist, or an artist as an engineer? Can you make real innovations in designing with machine learning without access to research teams at major tech companies? Should algorithms be given names to remind ourselves that they are not “neutral”? This...

In this conversation, artist and designer Es Devlin speaks with Suhair Khan about how to thoughtfully engage technology to push the boundaries of imagination across art, culture, and design. This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Design Lab in partnership with London Design Festival 2022. The mission is to connect visionary creatives and technologists, to catalyse, seed and build around new ideas. In this series, we are asking the question: “In an age of disruption ...

In this conversation, Tom Dixon OBE (Tom Dixon), Karen Kang (TikTok), and Amon Kale (Central Saint Martins, LVMH) consider the role of creatives across digital platforms. They discuss the ways in which creativity is being decentralised, the role of social media in increasing access, and what is meant by an “authentic” brand voice. This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Design Lab in partnership with London Design Festival 2022. The mission is to connect visionary c...

In this conversation, Diana Alcausin (WeTransfer), Mariasole Pastori (Diorama), Emily Benn (Editor, Councillor City of London), Dayo Olopade (Amazon Studios, YouTube), and Maxim Zhestkov (zhestkov.studio) speak about ethics, bias, and innovation in art and design across all digital platforms. Hear their collective first-hand experiences working with NFTs, generative AI, and the role of curation in our multi-platform world. This conversation is part of open-ended design’s Technology & Desi...

In this conversation, Whitney Richardson (Apple, The New York Times), Greg Robson (Kintanna Ventures), Dara Huang (DH Liberty), and Suhair Khan (open-ended design) speak about how the role of creatives, architects and designers is changing with new markets, new users, and new platforms. Are we all hypocrites when it comes to designing and building sustainably? Where do nature and technology intersect? How do we make choices for ourselves, our business, and also for our consumers? This convers...

In this conversation, Arthur Mamou-Mani (Mamou-Mani Architects), Shajay Bhooshan (Zaha Hadid Architects), Jen Haugan (Nexus Studios), and Suhair Khan (open-ended design) speak about placemaking and designing for the metaverse. Who defines the metaverse? Are we excited or terrified by what comes next? Who owns these spaces? They discuss building virtual worlds across hybrid realities and raise new questions on the future of creativity and the ethics of technology. This conversation is part of ...

We continue our planet focused season this week with curator Diana Campbell, who is committed to fostering a transnational art world. Championing socially engaged artistic practices of underrepresented artists and regions has earned her recognition on the annual ArtReviewPower100 list. 🏆 Since 2013, Diana has served as the Founding Artistic Director of Dhaka-based Samdani Art Foundation, and Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit. It is the highest daily visited contemporary art exhibition in ...

This week’s open-ended conversation is with the versatile Shloka Nath, head of sustainability and policy at Tata Trusts in Mumbai. Shloka Nath is a thought leader focused on funding climate in India across business and society.At the center of her work as the co-founder and Acting CEO of the India Climate Collaborative, is the question of how climate can be funded in the broader ecosystem in India.In this episode, Shloka speaks about connecting with nature, the wildlife book that inspired her...

This weeks conversation is with architect and teacher Hussam Dakkak. Hussam has been the founder and program director of the AA Jeddah Visiting School since 2015, which critically archives and studies Makkah, a city sacred to all Muslims and home to the holiest site in Islam, the Ka'aba. A historian and archivist, Hussam's work is political and sometimes subversive. He is a partner at Studio Bound, a design collaborative based between London and Saudi, and holds a masters in archi...

This weeks conversation is with Katie Patrick, an environmental engineer and software designer based in San Francisco. Katie works at the intersection of environmental behaviour, gamification, and technology, tackling complex environmental issues by applying data-driven game and behaviour-change techniques.Passionate about the power of gaming to save the planet, Katie is an author and podcast host, How to Save the World: How to make changing the world the greatest game ever played.She has col...

We kick off the new year with a conversation with multimedia artist Shezad Dawood, who works across the disciplines of painting, film, sculpture, performance, virtual reality and digital media. His work asks key questions of narrative, history, and embodiment, fusing artistic narratives with the issues of our time, challenging us to think about the future in new ways. Shezad has had an epic couple of years. Some of his recent projects include co-producing t...

This week’s Open/Ended conversation features Whitney Richardson, a creative visual strategist who uses technology, events and journalism to connect people around the world. Over the last few years, Whitney has produced live events for The New York Times across Europe to address the most pressing stories of our time: climate change, gender, tech, and culture. Whitney speaks about her work on one of the most ambitious live events in The New York Times's 170-year history, a series of 70+ virtual...

To kick off Season 3, we are excited to welcome Anab Jain - designer, futurist and filmmaker. As co-founder of Superflux, Anab leads a seminal design practice that is responsive to the challenges and opportunities of this era. Anab and her team imagine and build future worlds for the present moment. They confront issues such as climate change and inequality, the emergence of artificial intelligence, and the future of work. And they collaborate in surprising ways, they’re currently working on ...

#19 Josie Wells is an award-winning journalist and founder of Footnotes and Indexes, a New York-based book club that aims to initiate personal growth and foster critical thinking through works by Black writers. Making academia accessible, her accompanying online newsletter provides space for people to address social issues and dig deeper into Black culture and Black feminism. Started in January 2020, the Footnotes and Indexes book club and newsletter combine text with music, video...

Jaz O’Hara founded The Worldwide Tribe in 2015 after a life-changing visit to the refugee camp in Calais, known as ‘The Jungle’, and a subsequent Facebook post that went viral. The Worldwide Tribe uses creative storytelling to amplify human perspectives of displaced people within the refugee crisis, inspiring a global community and leaving a legacy of positive, social change. Jaz and her team have provided essential support in camps across Europe and the Middle East. Alongside coordinating ...

Blaze Lightfoot Jones-Yellin is an afro-indigenous urbanist whose practice and teaching has largely focused on environmental justice and community-centric design in New York. He is also a professor at the Sustainability and Environmental Justice department at CUNY John Jay. Throughout his career, Blaze has helped create equitable communities by blending human and environment-centred design; always bringing community voices to the forefront of city revitalization projects. He has sup...