is an Assistant Professor in New Media Design in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on participatory methods, speculative design, and leveraging collective intelligence to help people become more connected and empowered in their communities.

is an Associate Professor in Culture Studies at Tilburg University. His research focuses on critical intersections between culture, politics, and technology. His latest books are The Manifesto Handbook: 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form (Zero Books, 2020) and Island (Bloomsbury, 2024).

is a Lecturer in Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University. Trained as a cognitive linguist, she is interested in how language constructs and constrains our relationships with the world, and how collaborative meaning-making practices can help to foster new life-affirming human-world relations.

Eric Craven is a musician, composer, and community educator who has been working and developing creative facilitation practices in Montréal for the past three decades. He is the Coordinator for engAGE Centre for Research on Aging at Concordia University.

is a Researcher in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on speculative and critical design with participatory methods including non-user stakeholders. Her work often relates to ethics, sustainability and collaborative reflection.