Heather Wiltse

Heather Wiltse (PhD) is currently Associate Professor at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University (Sweden). Her transdisciplinary research centers around trying to understand, articulate, and critique the role of digitally connected, responsive, and data-intensive things in experience and society in ways that can inform response-able design. Building on a background in human-computer interaction, science and technology studies, design, and communication and culture, Heather’s research focus is currently on doing design philosophy at the intersection of critical design studies and philosophy of technology. Her recent book is Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World (with Johan Redström, published by Bloomsbury); and her forthcoming edited book is Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial (Bloomsbury, May 2020).

Keynote speaker on Thursday 12th December