Wednesday 4th of June at 16:00 – 17.30 pm CEST, in the context of the Cumulus conference Working Groups. Link for remote on-line attendance will be added here.

P-R-E- AI Digital Culture

The Cumulus+IxDA partnership – with institutions and organizations from different parts of the world – creates diversified and constructed spaces for conversations building on the synergy of education and research expertise, brought by Cumulusians, along with the practitioners’ perspectives brought by IxDA and its local partners.

End 2022 saw a shift in Digital Culture with the Cult of AI.
How are we bending the corners as practitioners, as researchers, as educators ? 
The P-R-E- series encourages focused conversations on identifying critical elements that further capacity building for designers, at different stages of their careers, from studies to professional practice to lifelong learning. The Nantes P-R-E- meeting will allow to craft what could be or should be at stake for “critical thinking” for any stakeholder. Let’s bend design? Let’s bend AI?

Contributions:

_ Giuseppe Attoma Pepe – Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1957 – studied Communication and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna (DAMS) and Architecture at the University of Genoa. He later earned a Master’s degree in Sustainable Innovation by Design from ENSCI–Les Ateliers in Paris, France.
After moving to Paris, he became a pioneer in Service Design, Information Design, and User Experience Design in France. Through his agency, Attoma, he has addressed complex challenges in mobility, urban infrastructure, the energy transition, and the manufacturing and IT sectors. With over 25 years of international design experience, he now works as a Strategic Design Consultant, leading missions that span the design, structuring, and evaluation of complex service systems. A regular speaker and published author, Giuseppe also curates attomalab.eu, a blog exploring design culture and emerging trends.

_ Mie Miyamoto is a Professor at the School of Design, Tokyo University of Technology.
Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a PhD in Fine Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts, as well as an AA Diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Her research focuses on the co-creation of space through workshops, and she has conducted more than 100 workshops in various countries, including Japan, the UK, and Germany. She places particular emphasis on integrating these workshop activities with education, research, and professional practice.

_ Lucrezia Russo is a designer, educator, and researcher whose work lies at the intersection of design, pedagogy, and critical inquiry. With over twenty years of experience in graphic design, she has served as Chair of the Communication Design department at Paris College of Art since 2015, where she also teaches.
She holds an MA in Graphic Design (IED Milan), an MFA in Transdisciplinary New Media (Paris College of Art), and a Mastère Spécialisé in Innovation by Design (ENSCI – Les Ateliers). Her research focuses on educational innovation in higher education, with a particular interest in the potential of design as a driver of social and pedagogical change.

_ Hanny Wijaya is a PhD Researcher at Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria. She has been awarded honorary titles as the Distinguished Professor from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, China as a recognition of her achievement in research. As a Central European Director of CEIDA (China Europe International Design Culture Association), she is also involved in many art and design projects both in academic and professional fields. Working actively on many collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, she intertwines mostly with contemporary art, design, and culture. Hanny has also published books and articles in international journals and proceedings while balancing her literature works with practice-based outcomes and exhibitions. Her artworks have been exhibited worldwide, including Austria, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia, etc.

_ Zhiqian Yang is a lecturer at School of Innovation, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, China. She is a content creator who combines art and technology. In the current phase of her practice, she explores the process of mutual intervention between individuals and algorithmic mimesis, to focus on the human companionship in the context of interconnected networks. Dynamic images and comprehensive material installations are used for characterisation. Her works have been selected for the Internationale Handwerksmesse in Munich and the Uncut project of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She was also nominated as outstanding female photographer at the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival. In addition, she extends her artistic creation experience to curatorial practice.

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_ Dr. Frédérique Krupa is the director of the Digital Design Lab at l’école de design Nantes Atlantique and the Digital Ethics Track Chair at Cumulus Nantes. She is a UX designer and researcher with over 25 years of experience working for distinguished companies like Virtools, Dassault Systemes and Simple Is Beautiful.  In parallel to her design career, Dr. Krupa has been a professor at Parsons School of Design, RISD, UofArts, and Parsons Paris/Paris College of Art, where she founded and chaired the Masters (MA & MFA) in Transdisciplinary New Media. She completed her Doctorate in Design at Université Paris1 Pantheon Sorbonne, followed by an action-research postdoc in peer-to-peer ICT pedagogy at the experimental computer science school 42, specializing in machine learning algorithms. Her current research focuses on establishing MLUX methods, a holistic, transdisciplinary and systemic approach to create ethical and responsible machine learning data, algorithms and predictive models. She is co-founder of the Platform for Interdisciplinary Innovation (P2I) on AI & Acceptability and co-directed two PhDs on designing artificial intelligence for professional settings.

_ Alok b. Nandi is busy with innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship, powered by narrative and design tools. His professional experiences cover a range of entrepreneurial activities (intrapreneurship, spin-off, creative industries) and advisory roles, including brand/advertising and communication (P&G – Procter & Gamble, EC pan-europeans campaigns), film production, exhibition design and new media in publishing (Casterman – publisher of a.o. Tintin, groupe Flammarion). He is dealing with storytelling in multiple media, space and technologies, from high-tech interactive installations to low-tech mise-en-scène. Speaker at international conferences and events (incl. PechaKucha Tokyo, TEDx Flanders, IxDA, Cumulus, WDO, SDN). Invited lecturer in multiple institutions, Alok Nandi is professor of innovation & design at Institut Lyfe, hospitality-culinary school in Lyon, co-founded by chef Paul Bocuse, 3* Michelin. He has founded PechaKucha Brussels, and he co-initiated the P-R-E- series, Practitioners meeting Researchers meeting Educators, organised by Cumulus Association and IxDA. More via www.nandi.mobi –

The P-R-E- series was initiated in 2018, in Lyon, at the Interaction18 conference, by Eija Salmi, Alok b. Nandi and Frédéric Degouzon, connected to the Digital Culture Working Group at Cumulus.