Linda Dounia is a Senegalese Lebanese artist and designer.

She specializes in visual design, interaction design, and design research. She is most interested in how technology can adequately represent and empower people, no matter who they are. She has managed design teams that leverage the power of play, co-creation, and prototyping with communities to better understand systemic inequality, and to make technologymore accessible and useful to them.

In 2023, Linda was recognized on the TIMEA100 list of most influential people in AI for her work on speculative archiving — building AI models that help us remember what is lost. In 2024, she was also the recipient of Mozilla’s RISE25 award for her work in AI.


linda.rebeiz@gmail.com

    ABOUTWORK

    ONCE UPON A GARDEN SPECULATIVE ARCHIVE NAVIGATOR

    Once Upon A Garden is speculative archive of critically endangered and extinct flora that we have little to no records of, and therefore no way to remember. In this project, I uses AI as a time machine to piece together visual data about flowers we didn’t bother recording using sparse and fragmented available records. Once Upon A Garden: The Complete Archive presents 50 emergent species of speculative flora across 5 chapters. The chapters map onto the chronological progress of the project, reflecting AI models’  improvements in synthesizing images based on context. The full speculative archive can be explored here.