Sinem Görücü is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, educator, community organizer, and advocate working at the intersection of design, data, and artificial intelligence, hrough the lens of social justice and intersectional feminism. She is the founding director of Feminist Design, an organization that uses feminist frameworks to inform design processes and harnesses creativity as a tool for feminist advocacy. Sinem’s work spans technology, social justice, urbanism, design, data science, AI, civic engagement, and feminism. She teaches and researches topics such as equitable AI, critical data studies, design justice, feminist hacking, community tech, and creative literacy, advocacy, and resistance. Currently, she is a PhD researcher at King’s College London, focusing on environmental footprint of AI and critical visualization. Her projects, talks, and publications can be viewed at sinemgorucu.com.
Georgia Panagiotidouis a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Visualisation in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London. She obtained a PhD from KU Leuven in Belgium, and completed her MA at Aalto University, Finland. Before joining King’s, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UCL Interaction Centre.
Feminist Design (www.feministdesign.co] is an intersectional feminist organization and community for research, creativity, education, joy, and justice. Positioned at the intersections of social justice and design, FD focuses on community driven innovation/tech/design/data practices, creative literacy and advocacy, equitable design approaches, feminist hacking and more. Committed to pioneering feminist ways of making and producing, along with participatory research methodologies, Feminist Design uses feminist approaches, frameworks, methods and tools to inform and guide design processes, while also harnessing design and creativity as powerful tools for feminist advocacy.
