Sophia Brueckner: Sci-Fi Prototyping and Critical Optimism

Join the Penny Stamps Speaker Series this Friday, February 26th at 8:00 PM ET for a conversation with Google software engineer Sophia Brueckner. Creating new ways to apply science fiction to the design process, Brueckner prototypes alternatives to the tech industry’s limited visions for how we live with technology. She makes both physical and digital artifacts combining software programming, digital fabrication, and electronics with traditional media. These projects challenge the norms of the tech community, whose work has enormous impact on our day-to-day lives, as well as translates the problems in ways that are understandable to the everyday user.