A MAZE. @amazefest.bsky.social Label for Games and Playful Media.
A MAZE. / Berlin 2027 - 16th edition - May 5-8
A MAZE. Shop-Gallery - Summer break - Greifswalder Str. 14, Berlin
#arthousegames #indiegames #space #positivechaos #berlin #playfulmedia #AMaze2026
Sabrina Minter @billyflamrock.bsky.social Course Director & Lecturer in Games Design at Ulster University.
Creative Director at Can You Eat It?
(@CanYouEatIt)
RCA Design Research @rcadesres.bsky.social Staff and student research in the School of Design at the Royal College of Art, London.
Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social Art critic, curator and forever blogger https://we-make-money-not-art.com/
Julian Oliver @julian0liver.bsky.social Critical engineer / Educator / Infrastructure activist / Artist
Art: https://julianoliver.com
Infrastructure: https://nikau.io
Socials: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver
Classes: https://courses.nikau.io/currently-available-courses
Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social Director & Senior Lecturer at Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta // Narrative designer with Mighty Boards (Posthuman Saga, Fateforge: Chronicles of Kaan) // Debut novel out 2026
Studio NAND @nand.io Design for Decisions
Journal of Futures Studies @jfsfutures.bsky.social A leading academic journal in Futures and Foresight, established in 1996.
Morfos Studio @morfos.bsky.social Hi! I’m Andrea, a material and product designer. I’m currently working on a series of speculative ecologies with 100 hybrid organisms images made with ai and photography.
🌎100 hybrid organisms #morfos100
Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social UK PCR positivity map:
https://jamestindall.info/skeuomorphology/ladb_covid/index.html
No DMs. Signal: dan.9999
literary history | philosophy of tech | EXTREME METAPHORS: Interviews with JG Ballard http://amazon.co.uk/dp/B007QOXKHI | www.danohara.co.uk
oliver @oliverbates.co.uk design researcher. he/him
researching through making games, zines and critical tea towels about climate futures, tech, and systems.
Links to my stuff: https://oliverbates.co.uk
https://fractals.coop/ and research fellow @ lancaster uni
Jesse Haapoja @jhaapj.bsky.social Interested in relationships between humans and algorithmic systems. PhD (social psychology). Postdoc at Aalto University.
Patricia Pons @patrypons.bsky.social PhD in #ComputerScience 👩💻, passionate about #animals 🐱 #travel ✈️ & #StarWars - Researcher at @ITI_TIC - #WomenInTech #HCI #XR #MR #AnimalComputerInteraction
John Thackara @johnthackara.bsky.social What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How best can we help? I write, talk, discuss, advise. We also host offsites here in France https://thackara.com/
Ben Kirman @ben.kirman.org Postdisciplinary games academic: Make/study/teach the playful, weird, wonderful and radical. (he/him)
#criticaldesign #speculativedesign #designfiction #gamedesign
Projects:
https://ben.kirman.org
Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social Design for posthuman coastal futures @ Lancaster University (ImaginationLancaster). All terrain knitting. Mamma. ITA/ENG. She/her.
Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social 
David Philip Green @dpgreen.bsky.social Design Documentaries Data
Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc Educating designer & empirical philosopher of things playful & engaging. Professor of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. Senior AE, @acmgames@bsky.social. https://codingconduct.cc
Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com Professor at the University of Malta's @indigitalgames.bsky.social
Migrant ☆ https://gua-le-ni.com/
Author of strange literary fictions ⇒ https://www.setmargins.press/books/what-we-owe-the-dead/
Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.com Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Glasgow creating interactive and internet-enabled systems for animals. www.ilyena.com
More-than-Human Sustainable and Inclusive Smart Cities @morethanhuman.bsky.social Mosaic is a four-year programme of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral research and innovation that will deliver a step‑change in how we design, plan and build our cities for thriving multispecies cohabitation. Morethanhuman.net
Sara @saraheitlinger.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow/
Co-Director, Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design/
Reader in Computer Science at City St George's, University of London.
PI on Mosaic: More-than-Human Sustainable and Inclusive Smart Cities. morethanhuman.net
Paul Cureton @paulcureton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Design, Imagination Lancaster, Lancaster University. Ultra-runner in between.
Susan Lechelt @susanlechelt.bsky.social HCI / Interaction Design lecturer at @DesignInf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. designing methods and artefacts to promote discussion and reflection about technology. She/her. 
Journal of Design Research @jdesignresearch.bsky.social Journal of Design Research. Published by Inderscience. Emphasising human aspects of design through integrative studies of social sciences and design disciplines.
Skeets by @reneewever.bsky.social (editor)
Incl journal updates & vacancies in design academia
@surfutures.bsky.social @surfutures.bsky.social 
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Imagination Lancaster @imaginationlanc.bsky.social A design-led research lab at Lancaster University
https://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/ 
Brian Coyle @briandcoyle.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Games Design Ulster University co-founder canyoueatit and Unreal Authorized Instructor.
ulster.ac.uk/screen-academy
Prof Victoria Simms @profvicsimms.bsky.social Professor of Developmental Psychology at Ulster Uni. 
Professor Paul Connolly FAcSS @profconnolly.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster University | Professor of education | Researching children, conflict and peace building.
Ulster University @ulsteruni.bsky.social Recognised as @timeshighered.bsky.social University of the Year 2024.
Latest news, research and events from Ulster Uni. A leading University with world-class teaching.
#WeAreUU
Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social Composer/electronic musician/noise-maker/ thinker in sound; Research Director (Music,Drama,Film/Screen&Heritage) and Senior Lecturer (Music/Audio), Ulster Uni, Magee (Derry); Dubliner in Derry, views mine own!
Philip McDermott @ppmcdermott1.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Ulster University
Sociologist who works on cultural and linguistic diversity in the public space.
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/philip-mcdermott
Leona O’Neill Author @leonaoneill.bsky.social Head of Undergraduate Journalism at Ulster University. Former Journalist, Northern Ireland. Field Producer, worldwide. Supernatural author. Literary Agent - Lisa Moylett. Founder of MediaStrong. PhD researcher. Newsroom
Mental Wellbeing campaigner. Mum x 4
UCU Ulster @ucu-ulster.bsky.social University & College Union at Ulster University. Working for our members' conditions and pensions & campaigning against the marketisation of education
Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social Historian of medicine, religion, and the supernatural. Joint editor, Irish Historical Studies. Senior Lecturer in History at Ulster University. Research profile: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-sneddon
Co PI Islandmagee Witch Project: w1711.org
Bad Bridget @badbridgetbook.bsky.social Research project led by Elaine Farrell (Queen's Uni Belfast) & Leanne McCormick (Ulster Uni) exploring the lives of Irish women in 19th & 20th-century North America who ended up in trouble with the law.
Book | Podcast | Exhibition@Ulster American Folk Park
Jess Bates @jessicabates.bsky.social Research on education, libraries & information. Course Director, Library & Information Mgmt at Ulster (online course). Rathlin Island resident. Coastguard volunteer. Wife and mum.
Leanne McCormick @leannemccormick.bsky.social Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
Prof Siobhan O’Neill @profsiobhanon.bsky.social Mental Health Champion NI | Prof Ulster Uni | mental health, trauma & suicide | mum 
Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social Speaking for myself here-so all the problems are my own. And in my day job, I am Director of Community Engagement and Professor of Politics at Ulster University.
Joseph Lindley @designresearch.works Advocate for using Design Research to explore emerging perspectives on AI, more-than-human matters, and… pretty much anything.
Watch a film about it here: https://designresearch.works/permission-to-muck-about
Was @joegalen on ‘ex’ platform
Paul Coulton @proftriviality.bsky.social Professor of Speculative and Game Design at Lancaster University 🏴
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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