About the festival
Imagine a cosy space for deconstructing mainstream AI stories, dreaming up new ones, and figuring out how to make them real.
Because while we don’t know where AI is going, we aren’t leaving it to Zuckermusk.
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Speakers + Artists
We're grateful to have gathered the smartest, warmest, fuzziest bunch of (y)our favorite AI researchers and artists in the field to reflect, question, and reimagine what AI means for the rest of us:
Abdelrahman Hassan / Anna Rose Kerr / Anne Fehres / Caroline Sinders / Clarote / Computational Mama / Cristóbal Ascencio / Dominika Čupková / Emma Crabtree / Eryk Salvaggio / Fabian Mosele / Gaston Welisch / Gijs de Boer / Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes / Hanna Barakat / internet teapot / Janet Turra / Janire Goikoetxea / Jazmin Morris / Judith Veenkamp / Justin Pickard / Leo Scarin / Lex Fefegha / Luke Conroy / Maria Costa Graell / Marbles the Cat / Matt Webb / Moises Ramirez / Nadia Nadesan / Natalia Stanusch / Ola Bonati / Paulina Casas / Sophie Nadel / Soyun Park / Thiago Britto / Valeria Castillo / Vera van der Burg / Vytas Jankauskas / Zeina Saleem.
Thank you all for being part of this wild and beautiful ride!
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The Dream Team
These are the brains and bodies that made the festival happen and made our wildest dreams manifest:
Nadia Piet (Creative Lead)
Ploipailin Flynn (Operations Lead)
Sofia Vieira (Production Lead)
Ana Marques (Design Lead)
Studio Gerritsen/Bart (Spatial Design Lead)
Elena Zaghis (Live Content Lead)
Dominika Čupková (Social Media Support)
April Chu (Visual Identity)
& the incredible team of volunteers!
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Aftercare +
Docuentation
Still curious about the lineup? Sad you missed the festival? Or want to revisit that session you loved?
You can still explore the full lineup, timetable, program, and session details from all three days of the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI 2025.
COMING SOON → Session recordings + materials, pictures, highlight reels, and a Slow AI zine created at the festival with internet teapot.
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Output
What we made
Festival Aftermovies
What if AI wasn't about moving fast and breaking things? What if we chose to move slow and repair things instead? 🐌
This video argues why we need alternative AI narratives beyond Silicon Valley's imagination – and what becomes possible when we make space for critical questions, embodied experience, and collective reimagining. This is part 1/3 of a video series from the first-ever AIxDESIGN Festival – exploring how we might make AI work for the rest of us, as told through the voices of the AIxDESIGN community.
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Recorded Talks
Want to rewatch your favourite speaker from the festival? Couldn't make it and suffering from FOMO?
We're in the process of publishing all our recorded speaker sessions to youtube so you can watch and rewatch them anytime, anywhere for free, forever. Share this talk from Hannah Barakat unpacking the media cycles of hype and fear surrounding AI with someone who needs to see it.
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Workshop + Talk Documentation
We documented all of our talks and workshops in session recaps on notion.
Each recap contains the background and details of each session, information about the speakers and/or facilitators, links to published recordings, all session materials, pictures and links to workshop outcomes.
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