Linda Dounia is a designer and artist. 

She uses play and co-creation to imagine technology that is more accessible and less extractive. 

She is Head of Design at Playlab, an education nonprofit building open AI infrastructure for educators. She believes that the future of education will be defined by how the cooperation between educators and intelligent systems is designed. Rather than build AI that does the work for you, she experiments with how AI can be a credible partner in teaching and learning. 

In 2023, Linda was named to the TIME100 AI list for her work on speculative archiving: building AI models that help us remember what is lost in training data. In 2024, she received Mozilla's RISE25 award for her work in AI.


linda@playlab.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.