LGLAYDA GONGORAResearch & creative practice
Layda Gongora · Research / Design / Innovation

How do we design technologies that cultivate human creativity rather than replace it?

Innovation Specialist and Interdisciplinary Researcher in Embodied Creativity, Critical Media Practice, and Human–AI Interaction

PhD Candidate, Computing, Lancaster University · Marie Curie Research Fellow · Critical Media Practice / HCI / Human–AI Interaction

A research philosophy

Creativity is not a solitary act. It emerges between bodies, materials, technologies and people.

My research brings human–computer interaction, participatory design, critical media theory and improvisational practice into conversation. From workshops and tangible systems to AI prototypes, I use making as a form of inquiry.

The guiding concern is both practical and political: who can participate, whose knowledge is recognized, and what technological systems make possible—or impossible.

About my practice

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”