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Hybrid Ecologies: Exploring the Planetary Condition of AI: a panel with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Design School professors Manuela Garretón and Martín Tironi

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This presentation proposes a series of reflections for an agenda that explores the planetary condition as a new horizon for making and thinking. Drawing on research-creations into the relationship between artificial intelligence and the environment in the Chilean context, it highlights the urgency of developing a repertoire of practices oriented to reveal and materialize relationships, entities, and agencies often excluded from the modern conception of technological development. Based on these cases, the presentation outlines exploratory principles for integrating planetary and terrestrial dimensions into design interventions and research.

Manuela Garretón is an Assistant Professor at the School of Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile), an Adjunct Researcher at the Millennium Nucleus for Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), and an Associate Researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Her research and creative practice focus on data visualization and data stories, particularly in relation to the water crisis and the environmental implications of AI. Her work includes the interactive installations Ecologías Híbridas (CCLM, 2023) and Default (MAC, 2017).

Martín Tironi is an Associate Professor and Director of the School of Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile). He is the director of the Millennium Nucleus for Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR). Tironi earned a PhD in Sociology from the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, École des Mines de Paris (2013). In 2018, he served as a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the co-editor of the book Design For More-Than-Human Futures: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding (Routledge, 2023). He participated in the curatorial team that won the gold medal at the London Design Biennale (2021) with the pavilion “Tectonic Resonance: From User-Centered Design to Planet-Oriented Design.”