Sarah Pink

Director, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, and Professor, Design Sarah.Pink@monash.edu

Biography

Sarah is a world-leading design anthropologist and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, which undertakes critical interdisciplinary and international research into the social, cultural and experiential dimensions of the design, use and futures of new and emerging technologies. She has a joint appointment across the faculties of Art, Design and Architecture and Information Technology. Her research focuses on emerging intelligent technologies, automation, data, digital futures, safety and design for wellbeing.

articles

The sky's the limit?: Unravelling the future of travel

Will we see driverless cars, personalised public transport and flying taxis in the future? In this episode we ask the experts what the future of travel looks like.

A Different Lens

Rethinking public transport post-pandemic

A multidisciplinary research team is examining how we can translate what we know about public health contagion to develop safer public transport infrastructure.

Politics and society

Reframing our future technology fears

Don’t worry, your self-driving car won’t kill you – as long as research focuses on people and society, too.

Design and architecture