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.

Prompting Nowhere Maternal MachinesDie Gestalten The Overview Effect EssentiaPondiLifeworlds Geophony Aura Outputs About ContactInstagram

Exhibition / Lethaby Gallery / 17/09/2025 - 09/12/2025 Talk / Northumbria University / 21/11/2025 Workshop / Hampstead School of Art / 28/10/2025 Exhibition / Peckham Digital / 16-19/10/2025 Article / Dezeen / 10/10/2025

Prompting Nowhere
Maternal Machines
Die Gestalten
The Overview Effect
Essentia
Pondi
Lifeworlds

Geophony
Aura

Outputs

About
Contact
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Exhibition / Lethaby Gallery / 17/09/2025 - 09/12/2025
Talk / Northumbria University / 21/11/2025
Workshop / Hampstead School of Art / 28/10/2025
Exhibition / Peckham Digital / 16-19/10/2025
Article / Dezeen / 10/10/2025