Laura Forlano

Laura Forlano is a social scientist and design researcher. She is an Associate Professor of Design at the Institute of Design and Affiliated Faculty in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology where she is Director of the Critical Futures Lab. Her research is focused on the aesthetics, ethics and politics at the intersection between design and technology with respect to futures and material practices of work and urbanism. She is co-editor with Marcus Foth, Christine Satchell and Martin Gibbs of From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement (MIT Press 2011). She received her Ph.D. in communications from Columbia University. For more information, see http://lauraforlano.org.