Drawing from mestiza, queer, and transfeminist theories, Grace will share some of their ongoing research on queering AI, exploring mutations, the politics of disidentification and algorithmic borderlands in designing for co-predictive relations. This talk attempts to unsettle binary thinking often embedded in AI systems and gesture to the subversion of neurotypical Human-AI logics, performativities, relations and futurities.

Bio

Grace Turtle (they/them) is a Colombian-Australian designer, artist, and researcher, intersecting AI, Strategic and Critical Design and Foresight from a mestiza, queer and transfeminist lens. They are a Marie-Curie PhD Fellow at TU Delft (DCODE Network, 2025), queering AI, ethics, aesthetics and politics in designing for co-predictive relations—using experimental approaches spanning performance, game design, simulation modelling, and worldbuilding to examine human-AI, world-model entanglements. Previously, as Design Futures Lead at Deloitte Digital, they supported diverse organisations in leading transition and place-based initiatives. Their work has been featured internationally at the Porto Design Biennale, Telefonica Foundation Madrid, PRIMER New York, the World Futures Congress in Mexico City, and TEDx in Sydney.