Professor Mark Blythe

Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Mark Blythe is Professor of Interdisciplinary Design and Director of the Centre for Speculative AI. He likes to write about himself in the third person, like Caeser. If you are interested in his publications here is his Google Scholar page. And here is a link to his personal website, which he really must update one of these days.

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Key Publications

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Artificial Universities: Speculative AI and Generative Design, Blythe, M. 27 May 2026
Impossible practices: On the ideology of codesign, Raj, R., Blythe, M., Rogers, J. 2 Sep 2026, In: CoDesign
No Spirituality Please, We're HCI: Challenges for HCI Research on Religion and Spirituality, Wolf, S., Friedrich, P., Buie, E., Blythe, M. 13 Apr 2026, CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, United States, ACM
Artificial Intelligence and other Speculative Metaphors, Blythe, M., Lindley, S., Murray-Rust, D. 5 Jul 2025, DIS '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, New York, US, ACM
Design Courts: Workshops for Exploring Emerging Technology Ethics, Primlani, N., Blythe, M., Marshall, J. 26 Apr 2025, CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, United States, ACM
Human-AI Collaboration in Interior Design Education: GPT-Assisted Creativity and Innovation, AL Baker, M., Kirk, D., Blythe, M. 2 Dec 2025, IASDR 2025: Design Next, Tapei, The International Association of Societies of Design Research
Diagrams of Uncertainty or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Visual Rhetoric, Sellers, L., Blythe, M. 1 Jul 2024, DIS '24 Companion, New York, United States, ACM
Grand challenges in WaterHCI, Mueller, F., Montoya, M., Pell, S., Oppermann, L., Blythe, M., Dietz, P., Marshall, J., Bateman, S., Smith, I., Ananthanarayan, S., Mazalek, A., Verni, A., Bakogeorge, A., Simonnet, M., Ellis, K., Semertzidis, N., Burleson, W., Quarles, J., Mann, S., Hill, C., Clashing, C., Elvitigala, D. 11 May 2024, CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, USA, ACM
Artificial Design Fiction: Using AI as a Material for Pastiche Scenarios, Blythe, M. 3 Oct 2023, Mindtrek '23: Proceedings of the 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, New York, NY, United States, ACM
Creative Entrances to Co-Design: Exploring Collaboration through Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Games, Rüller, S., Giménez Ciciolli, B., Weibert, A., Aal, K., Blythe, M., Muller, M., Kafai, Y. 19 Aug 2022, PDC '22, New York, US, ACM

PGR Supervision

Luke Sellers Reconceptualising assessment categorisations in initial counselling contexts: Designs for participatory sense-making and alternative ways of knowing. Start Date: 13/06/2023 End Date: 17/10/2025
Luke Sellers Reassessing Assessments: creative critiques of initial assessment measures for talking therapy Start Date: 13/06/2023
Joshua Roland Designing Transcendent Spaces in the Metaverse Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025
Joshua Roland Designing Transcendent Spaces in the Metaverse Start Date: 01/10/2022
Yve Smith Exploring children’s visions for an AI-enabled education. Start Date: 11/09/2026