Haider Akmal

Haider Ali Akmal is a speculative design researcher, future-focused service designer, and practicing printmaker at UNSW Art, Design, & Architecture, specialising in playful speculative approaches towards design solutions imagined through innovative and unconventional applications of technology. His research in design discusses the need for playfulness in design practice through post-anthropocentric visions of human computer interaction. Originally from Pakistan he is an alumnus of the National College of Arts, Lahore, as well as of Lancaster University, UK. Affiliated with both the Cowas Jee Print Studio in Pakistan and the Imagination Lab in Lancaster, Haider co-operates the Inkster Printmaking Studio in Lahore. His work has been exhibited internationally with prints in collections in the China Print Museum, Singapore, London, and across Pakistan. Creative and future-focused speculative applications of technology; Speculative Design; Design and Play. Keywords: speculative design, co-design, philosophy, human computer interaction, computer games, game playing, game, ludic design, design and play, posthumanism. Fields of Research (FoR): Design, Interaction and experience design, Cyberphysical systems and internet of things, Human-computer interaction, Social robotics, Philosophy, Service design, Design management