After a lack of electronics projects, I had the idea to experiment with the WiFi enabled ESP8266 chip. For a highly creative music festival I visited in summer 2016, I had the idea of using a LED-tophat as an entertainment wearable, but also experiment with social dynamics in a festival crowd.

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Felix A. Epp

I am a transdisciplinary design researcher at the Department of Design at Aalto University and the Social Computing Group at the University of Helsinki, working at the intersection of HCI, futures studies, and the political dimensions of digital technologies. My work is defined by methodological agility and innovation — moving between psychological, social-scientific, and artistic approaches across domains as varied as web and UX design, automotive interfaces, dress culture, and digital politics. I am particularly interested in how sociotechnical imaginaries and ideologies shape the technologies we live with, and in developing new methods to bring anticipatory and critical perspectives into design and technology innovation. Find my publications on Google Scholar.


Postdoctoral Researcher


Helsinki, Finland