Max Park
I am a design researcher from Central Saint Martins currently working on Dr Paulina Yurman’s project Maternal Machines, alongside the ongoing development and exhibition of my project Prompting Nowhere, for which I am partly funded from being the principal recipient of the 2025 MullenLowe NOVA Awards.
My work focuses on making AI and related technologies more approachable by embedding them in understandable objects of familiarity. Through applying design techniques of research, drawing, tinkering and making, I create and exhibit interactive installations, prototypes, films and publications.
A core component of my approach involves inviting voices outside of the tech world into these conversations, which I believe an essential step towards creating new ways of seeing and doing technology and AI beyond dominant narratives of convergence and extraction.
About
Born in South London, a STEM-based education led me to pursuing a BSc at Loughborough University, through which a study exchange at Politecnico di Milano connected me not only to the wider arts and humanities, but also Italian culture. After gaining invaluable industry experience at the London design studio Pearson Lloyd, I chose to pursue an MA in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins.
It was here that I became able to fully merge my academic work, industry experience of designing and making with my interests and concerns regarding technology. Drawing on the wider humanities and arts, I use design as a medium to explore emerging technologies, the environments they shape, and the changes they bring about in the world.