Mission Statement
To contribute to how we design our tools and AI systems to build a more equitable and ethical future.
Biography
Arda Awais is an award winning multidisciplinary designer and creative technologist building new experiences. She is the co-founder of Identity 2.0 and works across the creative industry.
Previously she has worked with the likes of Goethe Institut, Tate, Dove and Soho House. She has been named a #WebChampion by Tim Berners-Lee, awarded the BIMA 100 award in the creators and designers category and selected to be a Design Council expert to work on projects accelerating the #DesignforPlanet mission. From her expertise, she has delivered numerous workshops and key note talks across universities and conferences.
Within her studio, she has explored various topics about our relationships with technology within different creative mediums, for example; surveillance capitalism, bias in algorithms/ AI systems and digital memories. Most recently, Identity 2.0 worked with Stop Killer Robots in partnership with Amnesty International and Soka Gakkai International developing an exhibition about the spectrum of digital dehumanisation and autonomous weapon systems.
Questionnaire
Where do you want to foster change and why?
It’s incredibly important to bring power back to communities and have us shape how technology advances in a way that best supports us as a society.
What or who influenced you during your professional career?
Throughout my career, I’ve had numerous formal and informal mentors that have helped shape my journey.
We all have those significant moments or situations (success or failure); which one was yours, and what did you learn from it?
Building a creative studio from the ground up has come with many learnings. Behind every successful project, there are multiple failures behind the scenes. We have learnt how to quickly shift gears and come up with solutions off the cuff. Particularly, building exhibitions has been the centre of many learnings. Each milestone was something new that we needed to test and grow from.