Projects — Heather Snyder Quinn

HEATHER SNYDER QUINN

Neste: Using design fiction to imagine a preferable future

A 9-month innovation initiative to imagine sustainable futures—included workshop facilitation, directing a film, and publishing an article for the World Economic Forum.

Mariah Augmented Reality Experience

An AR app visualizing historical injustice, Mariah “legally trespasses” at The MET museum, overlaying Sackler-donated art with “virtual memorials” for those who have died from opioid epidemic.

Strikethrough: Typographic messages of protest

An augmented reality experience created for The Letterform Archive, visitors can point their phone at historical sites of protest across the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mariah: Acts of Resistance

A 17-minute documentary short film about big tech and big pharma’s massive power and how we can create citizen resistance.

Transparency: Past/Present/Future

A design fiction publication about several emerging technologies including, digital fabrication, AI, AR, biometrics, and teleportation.

Lost in Translation

An experimental project and publication that investigates artificial intelligence and augmented reality within Google Translate.

Slanted Magazine (artificial intelligence)

Authored article for the premiere German design magazine titled “Challenging Technocratic Power: Trespassing in the Parallel Digital Universe.”

Technologies of Deception

A forthcoming publication by MIT press featuring authors from across the globe. Topics include: big tech’s massive power, disinformation, economic implications of automation, and regulatory barriers, among others. (co-editor & author)

Publications

Matriarchical design futures
Forthcoming chapter in the book, Feminist Designer : On the Personal and the Political in Design (edited by Ali Place, MIT Press, 2023 ), co-authored with Ayako Takase

Attending to futures
Forthcoming chapters: Tresspassing in the Metaverse (with Adam DelMarcelle) & Matriarchical Design Futures (with Ayako Takase)

Teleporting to stockholm
Essay for the Stockholm issue of Europe’s leading design magazine

Slanted magazine↗

leveraging the smartphone as a creative tool
Chapter included in the AIGA journal, Dialogue, for the MAKE Conference (University of Michigan Press)

transparency, past, present, future
Paper published in Design for Evil: Creative Speculation on the Negative Effects of HCI Research

ACM CHI conference Human factors in computing↗

More publications available upon request