Prof. Dr. Kit Braybrooke

Kit Braybrooke is Professor of Transversal Design at IXDM and a postdigital anthropologist and designer-artist whose work explores how systems make worlds. With 15 years expertise in applying feral digital methods in industry and the public sector, their practice asks how technological innovation can invite more-than-human networks (animal, vegetal, machine, and algorithmic) to walk together across new terrains. They have published research internationally on topics including gender relations in hacker cultures; power in public spaces; living labs and circular economies for climate regeneration; commons and open source cultures; and ethics of care, inclusion and queering in transmedia worlds. They are Head of the new Transversal Design MA programme at HGK, which decolonises design from within by integrating critical and creative practices across society, ecology and technoscience to invite radical proposals for worlds in transition. They have taught at Royal College of Art, King’s College London and Tongji University, and their work has been featured by TATE Modern, Arafura Mexico, Uroboros Fest Prague, Portland Art Gallery, RTVE Spain, BBC News, Guardian, DAZED & Furtherfield. They are a director of the critical design studio We&Us, which since 2020 has explored co-creation practices for systems change in Europe, China and North America, and a co-founder of communities of practice like Art Tech Nature Culture.

Edited volumes

• Braybrooke, K. & Kloiber, J. & Thorne, M. (eds) 2023, Gentle Dismantlings, a collaborative issue of DING x Branch magazines on the next generation of posthuman feminisms.
• Braybrooke, K. & Smith, A. (eds) 2018, Special Issue 12: Makerspaces and institutions, Journal of Peer Production.
• Braybrooke, K. & Nissilä, J. & Vuorikivi, T. (eds) 2013, The Open Book: A publication about open knowledge, Finnish Institute, London. Available as: [Amazon] [Issuu] [PDF].

Book chapters

• Braybrooke, K. & Huckfield, S. & Thomas, N. 2021, ‘Rethink the system, together: Articulating a circular economy with maker communities in China’. In This is Distributed Design. Fab Lab Barcelona. Available as: [chapter] [full book].
• Braybrooke, K. & Smith A. 2021, ‘Makerspaces & peer production: Spaces of possibility, tension, post-automation, or liberation?’ In M. O’Neil, C. Pentzold & S. Toupin (eds), The Handbook of Peer Production (pp. 347-358). Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. Available as: [chapter] [full book].
• Braybrooke, K. 2019, ‘Placeless making? Reframing the power-geometries of digital platforms in China through tactical co-creation’ in L. Bogers & Chiappini, M. (eds), Critical Makers Reader: (Un)Learning Technology (pp. 258-269). Amsterdam: Institute Network Cultures. Available as: [chapter] [full book].
• Damiani, L. & Papadimitriou, I. & Braybrooke K. 2019, 'Empowering debate: Art, culture + tech', How to Mozfest: 10 years of activism, community and collaboration. Available as: [chapter HTML] [chapter PDF] [full book].

Academic journals & proceedings

• Magnusson, T. & Braybrooke, K. & et al 2024, ‘The Organium: A library of technical elements for improvisatory design thinking’, AM '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures, 2024, pp. 198-208.
• Braybrooke, K. & Xiao, G. & Lynam, A. 2023, ‘Living Lab, interrupted? Exploring new methods for  (post)digital exchange on WeChat with urban-rural Living Labs in China and Germany during COVID-19’, Journal of Science Communication.
• Hee Jeong-Choi, J. & Braybrooke, K. & Forlano, L. 2023, ‘Care-full co-curation? Critical urban placemaking for more-than-human futures’, CITY Journal [& free download].
• Braybrooke, K. & Xiao, G. & Lynam, A. & Huang, H. 2022, 'Everyday sociospatial practices across borders? A photowalk between Huangyan, China & Thüringen, Germany with WeChat Group "URA 照片共享群"', In A. Lynam & H. Huang & Y. Guiqing (eds), URA Periodical 1(2), Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, DE.
• Braybrooke, K. 2022, ‘Creative commons, open access, free- libre / open source software’, In H. Callan & S. Coleman (eds), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (p 1-10). John Wiley & Sons Ltd [& free download].
• Braybrooke, K. & Janes, S. & Sato, C. 2021, ‘Care-full design sprints, online? Addressing gaps in cultural access and inclusion during Covid-19 with vulnerable communities in London and Tokyo’, In C&T ’21: Proceedings 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies, Seattle [& free download].
• Braybrooke, K. 2020, ‘Together we dance alone: Building a toolkit for creatives in a pandemic’, Interactions 27 (4), pp. 68–71 [& free download].
• Braybrooke, K. & Smith, A. 2018, ‘Liberatory technologies for whom? Analysing a new generation of makerspaces defined by institutional encounters’, Journal of Peer Production 12, pp. 1-13 [& free download].
• Damiani, L. & Braybrooke, K. & Sage, J.P 2018, ‘Temporary techno-social gatherings? An open discussion (hacked)’ in J. P. Bowen, Diprose, G. & Lambert, N. (eds), Proceedings of EVA London 2018, BCS Learning and Development Ltd, pp. 263-271 [& free download].
• Braybrooke, K. 2018, ‘Hacking the museum? Practices & power geometries at collections makerspaces in London’, Journal of Peer Production 12, pp. 40-59 [& free download].
• Braybrooke, K. & Jordan, T. 2017, ‘Genealogy, culture and technomyth: Decolonizing Western information technologies, from Open Source to the maker movement,’ Digital Culture & Society 3(1), pp. 25-46 [& free download].
• Braybrooke, K. & Jordan, T. & Richterich, A. & Wenz, K. 2017, ‘When does IRL matter? Location and networked creativity in gamer, hacker and maker publics', Selected Papers of Internet Research, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Tartu [& free download].

Other media

• Braybrooke, K. & Kloiber, J. & Thorne, M. 2023, ‘Calling all the wild ones: The next generation of posthuman feminisms’, Gentle Dismantlings, DING x Branch magazines [& free download].
• Interview with Sarah Allen about K’s work, 2023: ‘Growing an interdisciplinary virtual community and its “third spaces”’, Collaborative Incubator Toolkit, Beyond the Now, Berlin. 
• Braybrooke, K. & Jansen, F. 2022, ‘Tectonics of hope: Mapping resistance and regeneration in (and beyond) digital colonialism’, Superrr Digital Furtures Report, Berlin, DE [& free download].
• Braybrooke, K. 2022, ‘To know the individual is to know the collective: Translocal encounters of the virtual community Art Tech Nature Culture’, Backchannels, Society for Social Studies of Science [& free download]. 
• Braybrooke, K. 2021, ‘Access, power geometries and cyborg witches: Unpacking the digital material of the V&A GynePunk 3D-printed speculum – and its omissions’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London [& carrier-bag teaching kit 🛍️]. 
• Braybrooke, K. 2021, ‘Thinking as a ‘we’ again: Building collective worlds of mutual aid and creativity between/across digital platforms’, Beyond the Now 1(2). 
• Braybrooke, K. 2020, ‘Creating in crisis? Turning collective precarity into socio-ecological transformation’, Material Futures Catalog, Central Saint Martins, London, pp. 26-27. 
• Houston, L., Light, A. & Braybrooke, K. 2020, ‘How are environmentally engaged arts and cultural organisations responding to the COVID-19 pandemic?’, Creative Practices for Transformational Futures: Rapid Response.
• Braybrooke, K. 2018, ‘WeChat and makers in China: creativity, liberation, restriction’, British Council Creative Economy.
• Braybrooke, K. & Flint, J. & Murphy, I. 2018, ‘China: Making as national transformation?’, British Council Creative Economy [& PDF].
• Braybrooke, K. & O’Sullivan, E. 2017, ‘Hunting the machine ghosts of Brighton’, Furtherfield [& PDF].
• Braybrooke, K. 2016, ‘A doctoral day by other means: Power-geometries of space, community and (r)evolution in El Poblenou,’ EASST Review 35(4).
• Braybrooke, K. 2015, ‘Hacking Apple: Putting the power of tech back into our hands,’ The Guardian [& PDF].
• Braybrooke, K. 2014, ‘Hello world: Let’s remake networked art’, Medium, London.