Team Members

The Team

This project is a collaborative effort, bringing together expertise from the UK and Chile as well as Italy to build a truly interdisciplinary understanding of planetary observation.

Noortje Marres

Professor in Science, Technology and Society at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. She is also an external faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and a Visiting Professor in the Centre for Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen (Germany). Her research focuses on emergent forms of public engagement ("material participation") and the study of societal controversies about science, innovation and nature (climate change, renewable energy, AI). She has also contributed to interdisciplinary methods development (issue mapping, situational analytics). Noortje has led major UKRI-funded projects, including "Shaping AI" and the AHRC BRAID project "AI in the street," which used social design methods to investigate situated challenges of compute-intensive innovation in everyday living environments. Her work involves collaboration with non-academic stakeholders in government, civil society, and the arts.

Martin Tironi

Associate Professor and former Director of the School of Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Director of the Millennium Nucleus Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR). He holds a PhD from the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation (CSI) at the École des Mines de Paris, an MA from Paris Descartes University, and a Sociology degree from UC. In 2018, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths, University of London, and in 2026 a Visiting Scholar at the Institut für Soziologie at Technische Universität Berlin. His research lies at the intersection of design and science and technology studies (STS), with a focus on the social and environmental implications of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, as well as design anthropology, non-anthropocentric perspectives, and planetary sustainability. Alongside his academic work, Tironi is engaged in curatorial and artistic practice. He was part of the curatorial team awarded the Gold Medal at the London Design Biennale for the Chilean pavilion Tectonic Resonance: From User-Centered Design to Planet-Oriented Design. Together with Manuela Garretón, he is also the creator of the installations Hybrid Ecologies: Visualising the Terrestrial Footprint of Artificial Intelligence (Venice Biennale 2026) and Generative Devastations (2025).

Matías Valderrama

Academic at the School of Communication and Journalism, Adolfo Ibañez University. PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK, where he researched social media platforms and their controversies. MA and a BA in Sociology (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile). He worked as a research assistant at Nucleus Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR). His research interests lie at the intersection of digital technologies and society, exploring the social implications of various digital devices, including environmental sensors, drones, predictive models, social media platforms, and self-tracking devices.

Manuela Garreton

Associate professor at the School of Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her work and research sit at the intersection of design, data, storytelling, and the climate crisis, exploring how data visualization can foster critical engagement with pressing social, ecological, and technological issues. She holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. Her academic formation also includes a degree in Design from UC. Manuela is an adjunct researcher at the Millennium Nucleus FAIR (Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research) and an associate researcher at the UCLAB at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Her creative practice spans a variety of representational formats, from data journalism to interactive installations. Her work has been recognized internationally, including participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Ginevra Terenghi

Design researcher and collaborator at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). She recently completed her PhD at Brunel University London, where her research examined participatory approaches to data physicalization in healthcare. Her work explores how material engagement can support self-awareness, collective meaning-making, and critical reflection.

Matias Cifuentes

Sociocultural Anthropologist and research assistant at the School of Design at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the Cultura Social Media research lab at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Among his research interests lies the role that digital technologies play in emerging platform-mediated forms of work and cultural practices, such as content creation on social media platforms, delivery and ride-hailing apps, and the use of AI within the creative industries. He has contributed to international projects such as the Fairwork Chile annual report on labor conditions of platform workers, the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) report on Algorithmic Transparency Instruments, and the Latin American Conference on Digital Anthropology (ELAD).

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