Laura Forlano

Laura Forlano

Laura Forlano is an associate professor of design at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, where she is also director of the Critical Futures Lab. Her research is focused on the aesthetics and politics at the intersection of design, technology, material practices, and futures. She received her PhD in communications from Columbia University.


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Writing on Public Books

The Future Is Not a Solution

How might we learn resilience, care and community in the face of crisis–climate, political, cultural, economic or otherwise?

The Danger of Intimate Algorithms

We must reimagine our algorithmic systems as responsible innovations that serve to support liberatory and just societies.

Invisible Algorithms, Invisible Politics

Over the past several decades, politicians and business leaders, technology pundits and the mainstream media, engineers and computer scientists—as well as science …

Invisible Algorithms, Invisible Politics

Over the past several decades, politicians and business leaders, technology pundits and the mainstream media, engineers and computer scientists—as well as science …