Ahmed Ansari

Ahmed Ansari is an assistant professor in the School of Social & Media Sciences at SZABIST, Karachi, where he teaches courses in interaction and game design, in the philosophy of technology, and in cultural theory. A Fulbright scholar, he has an MDes in interaction design from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was involved in research on the applications of emerging technologies in healthcare and in informal learning environments. Since 2013 he has been busy trying to reform design education in Pakistan, helping redesign curriculums for local colleges and universities, and giving workshops and lectures on design thinking and research for local startups and NGOs such as the Pakistan Innovation Foundation. He has also been considering how artifacts and technologies are appropriated, reinterpreted, and even subverted in urban contexts, giving rise to new political and social forms of life in the South Asian city, and how current global and local design pedagogy and practice might be reconceived in new, radically political emancipatory forms that seek to further processes of decolonisation and the causes of the global working class.