https://mlml.io/m/basel/ Recent basel on metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel en-US Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:33:02 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/saadiamirza/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:33:02 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/saadiamirza/ member Saadia Mirza is an anthropologist and artist whose research examines perceptions of geological processes and environmental change through the use of sensing systems, climate modelling, and landscape simulation. Her work has been published in the Visual Anthropology Review, NatureCulture, Diseña, and Routledge’s Archaeological Sensibilities volume as well as other journals that deal with sensory and ethnographic knowledge. As an anthropologist, her work also incorporates expressive works such as sound and video installations as part of a body of ethnographic media, alongside published ethnographic works and texts. https://mlml.io/m/zoeromano/ Fri, 23 May 2025 16:18:25 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/zoeromano/ member Zoe Romano is a craftivist, senior consultant and artist whose practices interweave open design, intersectional technologies and social innovation. She studied philosophy at the University of Milan and her work balances conceptual thinking and concrete experimentation, exploring the poetic and political aspects of making. She co-founded one of the first makerspaces in Milan and her path has been growing in a constant research within the lines inscribed as an initiator of interdisciplinary projects especially through the languages of art, textiles and the ethics of care between human and non-human. https://mlml.io/m/cangiano/ Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:24:50 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/cangiano/ member Serena Cangiano is Senior Researcher at the Design Institute, founder and Head of FabLab SUPSI, where her work centers on multimodal experimental practices to drive transformative processes in education, research, and technology innovation. Digital literacy and co-creation crossing complex social issues are key topics of her research in academic and applied domains as exemplified by the last project MAKEAWARE!. Since 2025 she is part of the collective OBOT. Various of her contributions are included in books such as “Reprogrammed Art: An Open Manifesto” (2016) an open initiative on pioneers of programmed art, “Rebelling with Care” (2019), “The Critical Makers Reader - (Un)Learning Technologies” (2019), and “Digital Transformation in Design: Processes and Practices Essays” (2024). https://mlml.io/m/allen/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:09:44 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/allen/ member Jamie Allen is an artist-researcher and organizer whose work intersects art, technology, and ecological inquiry. A a metaLAB member, Jamie’s practice is rooted in creating experimental platforms for public-making and knowledge production through multimedia, publishing, and collaborative projects. With a focus on how media and technological infrastructures shape our social and environmental realities, Jamie’s work draws on art and design practice as tools for engaging the public in critical dialogue and creative exploration. https://mlml.io/m/dhaliwal/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:26:41 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/dhaliwal/ member Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal is the associate professor of Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Studies at the University of Basel. He holds a PhD in English and Science and Technology Studies (STS) from UC Davis, and a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. He was previously the Ruth and Paul Idzik Collegiate Chair in Digital Scholarship and Assistant Professor of English and Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. https://mlml.io/m/nic-1/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:27:20 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/nic-1/ member Nic is one of the leading experts in innovation on ageing and longevity and the Director of UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA), a global organisation supported by an initial investment from the UK Government and Newcastle University to help co-innovate - together with citizens and private and public organisations - services, technologies and products and deliver them to the market through innovative, ethical, and sustainable business models. NICA’s mission is to “add intelligence to ageing and longevity” by connecting and interpreting the personal, social, environmental, and economic dimensions underpinning different life stages. https://mlml.io/m/claudia-mareis/ Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:07:34 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/claudia-mareis/ member Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis is an expert for Design as well as Cultural History and Theory. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Design and History of Knowledge at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2019, she is also the Co-Director of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material«. Her research interests include history, theory and methodology of design in the 20th century, knowledge cultures in design, cultural history of creativity, design and material politics. https://mlml.io/m/aylin-yildirim-tschoepe/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:26:39 +0000 https://mlml.io/m/aylin-yildirim-tschoepe/ member Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe (Ph.D. Anthropology, Doctor of Design) is founder of metaLAB (at) Basel and professor of design anthropology at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, where she connects her experience from anthropology, architecture, design, gender studies, and urban studies. Aylin is involved in teaching and advising on BA, MA and PhD level at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, and has previously taught theory, methods, and studio courses at Harvard University, Technical University Darmstadt, Boston Architectural College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boğaziçi University, University of Basel.