Eugene Korsunskiy

Associate Professor of Engineering, Co-Director of the Design Initiative at Dartmouth College

Eugene Korsunskiy teaches human-centered design and co-directs the design initiative at Dartmouth. He co-founded Sparktruck, in an effort to bring back creative, hands-on learning to school through a curriculum of workshops and a truck to deliver them. He taught at the Stanford D.School and is the Executive Director of the future of design in higher education community of practice.

 

Arturo Escobar

Professor Emeritus Anthropology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Arturo’s main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of globalization, social movements, and technoscience. He is the author of Designs for the Pluriverse (2018), and is engaged in transition design projects in Colombia.

 

 

Michal Osterweil

Associate Professor, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Michal is a radical homemaker and community actionist. Her main areas of interest are social movements, new theories/imaginaries of social change and the intersection of knowledge production, epistemology and change work.

 

 

 

Kriti Sharma

Assistant Professor of Critical Race Science and Technology Studies

Kriti Sharma is a Postdoctoral Scholar in microbial ecology in the division of Geology and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, USA She is the author of Interdependence: Biology and Beyond (2015). Her main interests are microbiology and microbial ecology, philosophy and social sciences of biology, and ontology and metaphysics.