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Caroline Pieracci is a UX writer and Content Systems Architect at Google, specializing in digital product taxonomy, language systems, and human-centered design. With Master’s degrees in both Sociology and Design, she brings a unique dual perspective to user experience—combining structural design methodologies with a deep understanding of social dynamics and organizational behavior.  

Having designed language systems, digital governance models, and product architectures for market leaders—including Google, UBS, T-Mobile, IWC Schaffhausen, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi—Pieracci works at the

Modern forward-thinking design people often put people at the centre of their design work, and talk about "co-creation", "codesign" and similar terms, but I think there is a challenge to be made that the relationship between the "co-designer" and the "designer" might not be quite as evenly balanced as it should be. This talk is based on work we are doing at the UCL PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory) to understand how exactly the "person" can

Melissa Conroy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Centered Design who specializes in knitwear design and cross-disciplinary creative collaboration.  She will discuss the differences and intersections between the disciplines of art, craft and design with an emphasis on understanding how the disciplines of art and craft can benefit the design process using hands-on processes. 

Fibers are ubiquitous in daily life, from clothing and electrical cables to optical fibers and even biological systems like mussels. Beyond these conventional roles, fibers and textiles emerge as key enablers in technologies such as wearable electronics, robotics, clean energy, and water purification. Unlocking these advanced applications requires innovations across materials, design, manufacturing, and system integration. In this seminar, Dr. Shou will share some of their progress on scalable tactile textiles for human–environment interactions, advanced

Wearing the cloth of your nation, how does your uniform impact cultural identity and connection?

Join us for an afternoon of insight and dialogue connecting lived military experience with service, education, and design. The program features student veteran perspectives and leadership across ROTC units.

Immediately following the program, light refreshments and self-guided viewing of Fit for Duty: Form and Function of Military Dress.

Hosted by the office of the Vice Provost for Engagement and Land

Simon Thorogood is a distinctive research-led fashion artist and designer, academic, and creative consultant whose work sits at the intersection of fashion, digital media, music, architecture and critical theory.

He is part of a generation of British experimental fashion practitioners associated with the intellectual culture surrounding Central Saint Martins during the 1990s and is acknowledged as one of the very first designers to integrate digital technology and coding into fashion practice, presentation and communication.

He

Jennie Joseph, founder and president of Commonsense Childbirth and creator of the JJ Way, will discuss her model of evidence-based maternity care delivering readily accessible, patient-centered, culturally congruent care to people in "materno-toxic zones." 

Commonsense Childbirth operates a perinatal training division, a clinical division, a national Midwifery school and the National Perinatal Task Force, a grassroots organization whose mission is the elimination of racial disparities in maternal child health in the USA.

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