We Need to Talk About AI: Design and Climate Change

Ed is an award-winning designer, author, and environmental expert. He co-designed the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show’s Flood Resilient Garden and leads The Environmental Design Studio (TEDS), winners of the Sunday Times 'Resilient Home' competition. Author of Retrofitting for Flood Resilience, Ed founded the 'Hazard and Hope' initiative, launched the 'Climate Creatives Challenge', and created Climate Campers. He has given talks at SXSW, Glastonbury Festival, UC Berkeley, the University of Tokyo and Cambridge.

Chris is a biodesigner fascinated by how we can live more symbiotically with nature. He has a background designing electric vehicles, footwear, and outdoor gear. However, after realising incremental improvements to plastics and metals would never be sufficient to meet climate targets, Chris has changed his career to work with living things. Chris' award-winning studio "Bio Crafted" explores the potential of “livingness”, both as a materiality and a philosophical approach, through interspecies and intercultural collaborations.

Joycelyn is an environmental justice technologist, communicator, and PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. She’s worked with Meta, Samsung, Greenpeace, and The Design Museum, and spoken for the UN Geneva Dialogues, Channel 4, and Oxford University. She won the 2022 Emerging Designer London Design Medal and featured in British Vogue’s ‘Forces for Change’. Her debut book Natural Connection, published in 2025, explores Indigenous wisdom and marginalised voices in environmental action.

Rebecca is a curator and writer focusing on the intersections of contemporary art, design and ecology. She is currently Future Observatory Head of Curatorial Programme, and is co-curating the exhibition ‘More than Human’. She was previously Senior Curator at the Design Museum and Curator of Exhibitions and Design at the Serpentine Galleries. Independently, she curates exhibitions, edits and contributes to publications and teaches internationally.