CRITICAL & CREATIVE AI RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT

AIxDESIGN is an independent organization conducting critical and creative research on AI.

We challenge mainstream tech narratives by making space for the rest of us — centering intersectional, inclusive, and ethical approaches through community-led projects.

Through experimental projects and playful formats, we work to democratize AI literacy and critical discourse and prototype and practice new ways of understanding, talking about, and using AI.

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Fabian Mosele leading wonderful workshop Animating AI characters, you can see him overseeing five computer curious people with their laptops in front of them. They have mostly apple computers, you know.

Activists, researchers, data scientists, creative technologists, artists and designers as imagined by Dall-e.

Nadia Piet is explaining something about AI and design to two men in black. Literally, they are both wearing black tops.

The Team

Nadia Piet

Founder & Creative Director

Ploipailin Flynn

Co-founder + Delivery Lead

Ana Marques

Graphic Design Lead

Elena Zaghis

Communications Lead

Sofia Vieira

Development Manager & Lead Copywriter

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AIxDESIGN is a self-funded, not-for-profit organization.

Each person in our team of 4 is paid €5 per hour — can you help us make minimum wage?

Today, we only cover 50% of our monthly costs via community donations and project margins.

For the past 4 years, we’ve tried to fund AIxDESIGN in ways that don’t require your help (more info ↗︎).

But this has led team members to supply (too many) volunteer hours, and others to contribute (far too much of) their freelance income to make up the difference.

We are left wondering – is there a way we can share the financial responsibility of running AIxD with you – our community?

If you find value in any of the work we do, please consider becoming an AIxDESIGN supporter. The more we raise from you – our community – the more we can do community-initiated projects (see our Community Wishlist ↗︎)

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THE STORY (THIS FAR)

Back in 2018, there were designers & artists sprinkled around the world - scrolling through dev repos, experimenting with AI, questioning algorithmic affordances, not knowing there were others like them.

When Nadia Piet launched the AI meets Design toolkit, it served as bat signal for this community which evolved over the years to come

In 5 years, we have grown from a Slack group to a self-organised global community of 8,000+ computationally-curious people.

Today, we remain an independent community, working in the open, dedicated to conducting critical AI design research for people (not profit).

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

We wouldn’t be able to do all the work we do without the hands, eyes, and brains of the wonderful community helping us bring ideas to life.

CRITICAL & CREATIVE AI RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT

The Team

Nadia Piet

Ploipailin Flynn

Ana Marques

Elena Zaghis

Sofia Vieira

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THE STORY (THIS FAR)

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Dominika Čupková

Mieke Bernink

Pablo Nuñez

Soyun Park

Maria Than

April Chu

Cailean Finn

Computational Mama

Max Nguyen

Andreas Refsgaard

Amritha Warrier

Vilja Achte

Aarati Akkapeddi

Arda Awais

Christoph Bohne

Luca Cacini

Arnab Chakravarty

Peitong Chen

Clarote

Nick Cremers

Guido Duijn

Diarmuid Farrell

Radwa Fouda

Cody Gallo

Maike Geber

Yaboi Hanoi

Connie He

Karthika Kannan

Deniz Kurt

Leo Lau

Juliana López

Stein Louisse

Maya Man

Emily Martinez

Ioana Mischie

Aleksandra Naydenova

Matias Pina Aguilera

Catarina Rodrigues

Leda Sadotti

Felipe Sanchez-Luna

Renée van Holsteijn

Karina Zavidova

Malak Sadek

Thiago Britto