About me
Bio
Hi, I'm Joe. I'm a UK-based interdisciplinary designer and creative technologist. I am interested in how design methods can be used to understand, interrogate and reimagine complex socio-technical systems. I explore this topic through the creation of physical and digital prototypes and participatory workshops.
In 2023, I co-founded the sustainability-focused research and design studio Fallow Earth with agri-environmental researcher Florian Payen.Get in touch
hello@joerevans.com
Experience
Creative Technologist & Co-founder
Fallow Earth
April 2023
→ Now
Design Research Developer
Institute for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh
June 2018
→ March 2023
Visiting Researcher
Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University College London
October 2021
→ January 2023
Biodesign Course Assistant
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
January 2018
→ May 2018
Education
MA Material Futures
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2020
→ 2022
BA(Hons) Product Design
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
2015
→ 2018
Publications
Academic publications
Towards Child-Centred AI in Children's Learning Futures: Participatory Design Futuring with SmartSchool and the Co-Design Stories Toolkit ↗ In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
Cara Wilson
, Ayça Atabey
& Joe Revans
. 2025. After Wilding: exploring environmental futures through place-based, speculative documentary filmmaking ↗ In: Cultural Geographies in Practice.
Joe Revans
& Oscar Hartman Davies
. 2024. Creating Resources for Designing with and for Care Ecologies in HCI ↗ In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Cara Wilson
, Larissa Pschetz
, Billy Dixon
, Sue J Lewis
, Joe Revans
& John Vines
. 2024. Learning from creative biology: Promoting transdisciplinarity through vocabularies of practice ↗ In: Proceedings of the 2022 Design Research Society Conference.
Larissa Pschetz
, Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa
& Joe Revans
. 2022. Enacting the last mile: Experiences of smart contracts in courier deliveries ↗ In: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Ella Tallyn
, Joe Revans
, Evan Morgan
, Keith Fisken
& Dave Murray-Rust
. 2021. Push-pull energy futures: Using design to discuss agency in distributed energy systems ↗ In: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Larissa Pschetz
, Luis Lourenço Soares
, Billy Dixon
, Esteban Serrano
, Ella Tallyn
& Joe Revans
. 2020. GeoPact: Engaging publics in location-aware smart contracts through technological assemblies ↗ In: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
Ella Tallyn
, Joe Revans
, Evan Morgan
& Dave Murray-Rust
. 2020. Featured publications
UK2029 Project Essay ↗ In: Grow the Future: Visions of Biodesign. Edited by Daniel Grushkin.
Joe Revans
, Eva Auer
& Sean Greaves
. 2022. Can species be engineered for civil disobedience? ↗ In: Biodesign Special Features, Issues in Science and Technology.
Joe Revans
, Eva Auer
& Sean Greaves
. 2021. Self publications
After Wilding: A speculative documentary about rewilding and the future of British nature ↗ Self published.
Joe Revans
. 2022. Selected shows
Digital Ecologies in PracticeUniversity of Bonn, Germany
28/07/22
→ 29/07/22
Central Saint Martins Shows 2022Central Saint Martins, London, UK
14/06/22
→ 21/06/22
Data Play @ Edinburgh FringeDesign Informatics Pavilion, Edinburgh, UK
02/08/19
→ 26/08/19
Living with the Internet of ThingsTate Modern, London, UK
08/02/19
→ 09/02/19
Data Pipe-Dreams @ Edinburgh Art FestivalDesign Informatics Pavilion, Edinburgh, UK
02/08/18
→ 25/08/18
ECA Degree Show 2018Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
02/06/18
→ 10/06/18
Trading ZoneTalbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
26/05/18
→ 23/06/18
Biodesign for Social Impact @ TU DelftTU Delft Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft, The Netherlands
07/03/18
Biodesign for Social Impact @ Dutch Design WeekThe Student Hotel, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
28/10/17
Biodesign Challenge SummitMoMA, New York City, USA
22/06/17
→ 26/06/17
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