SUPPORT AIXDESIGN
AIxDESIGN is a self-funded community organisation conducting critical AI research for the benefit of people, not for profit.
Behind this website, our Insta, our tools and events is an operating team of 4. We are paid β¬5 per hour to run AIxD. Can you help us make minimum wage?
If you find value in any of the work we do, please consider becoming an AIxDESIGN supporter.
BECOME A SUPPORTER π
If you find value in any of the work we do, please consider becoming an AIxDESIGN supporter. The more we raise from you βΒ our community β the more we can do community-initiated projects (see our Community Wishlist βοΈ).
The AIxD Operations team consists of 4 working-class hunnies that do everything you know and love us for, including:
publishing our research in the open on our website βοΈ, on our Notion βοΈ, or our Insta βοΈ and Linkedin βοΈ ,
creating and curating practical resources like this βοΈ, or the Jobs Board βοΈ, or our Are.na βοΈ,
sending our monthly newsletter βοΈ,
maintaining infrastructure for us all to do that (Slack, Notion, website, design), and
the costs of our tech stack, legal costs, payroll, taxes, and so on.
AIXD IS UNDER-FUNDED
Our operating costs are low, but they aren't zero.
AIxD costs β¬2100 per month to run. Today, we only cover 50% of our monthly costs via community donations and project margins.
For the past 4 years, weβve tried to fund AIxDESIGN in ways that arenβt asking for your help (more info βοΈ).
But this has ended up with team members supplying (too many) volunteer hours, and others contributing (far too much of) their freelance income to make up the difference.
We are left wondering β is there a way we can share the financial responsibility of running AIxD with you β our community?
THANK YOU! ππ»
A huge thank you to everyone that has supported, funded, and helped finance our mission so far.
ANNUAL SUPPORTERS
Eryk, Andrea, Rasa, Ahnjili, Grit, Marie, Jen, Silvia, Salih, Amritha, Jonas, Gino, Olivier, Fabiola and 4 anonymous human beings
- Join us as a supporter to help AIxDESIGN keep the lights on and get your name on this wall of fame.
GRANTS
- Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries for (partially) funding the Slow AI Fest (2025), Slow AI research (2024), and AI Playground program (2022). Your funding has kept us going until now!
- SIDN fund for funding the Latent Identities project in collaboration with The Hmm (2024)
CLIENTS
- Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision for funding the Better Images S01 (2023) project via AI4MEDIA as well as the Archival Images (2024) project
- Responsible Applied AI Team of University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam for funding the Feminist UX of AI research (2024)
- Sublab (R&D of Submarine Channel) for funding the <STORY&CODE> residency (2023)
WE ARE ALSO ON BENEVITY!
AIxDESIGN Foundation is also on Benevity β a platform that makes supporting us easy through corporate matching! If your company is on Benevity, you can double your impact when you contribute! Search for βAIxDESIGN Foundationβ in your company's Benevity portal and follow the prompts to get started.
NOT READY TO COMMIT?
Not ready to go all in but still want to show some love? One-time donations are totally a thing! For larger donations (< β¬300), please email us for direct transfer so we donβt lose 10% to payment and platform fees.