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Dr Bow Wu is a Lecturer in Social Design at the University of Sydney’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning. She holds a PhD from Aalto University (Finland) on community-based design and has held roles as post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University and Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Design. Her work bridges social design, speculative futures, and ethics in emerging technologies.
- Member of the China Studies Centre & Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
- Education: PhD (Aalto University), MPhil (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), BEng (South China University of Technology)
Research focuses on:
- Design fiction for societal change
- Service design in rural/urban contexts
- Ethics of AI and biotechnologies
- Participatory methods for marginalized communities
Recent projects include:
- Investigating care work futures through collective imaginaries (2024)
- Exploring plant-centric perspectives in domestic spaces (2022)
- Developing empathy frameworks for digital spaces (2021)
- Key Grant: Examining impacts of emerging technologies on aged care workforce (2024-2025, $120k)
Labs/Initiatives:
Co-creator of the “Plant Hotel” project (exploring community foundations through biomimicry)
Leading the “Future Food Metaphors” initiative (2023-2025)
