Nuri Kwon works as a Senior Research Associate on the InterNet Zero project. Her research focuses on employing speculative design approaches to envision sustainable and trustworthy futures for autonomous systems, including AI.

In 2024, she completed her doctorate in design at ImaginationLancaster, with a thesis titled Understanding Near-Future Technology: An Exploration of Participatory Speculative Design for Policymaking in Shaping Connected Places. In her doctoral research, she explored the participatory speculative design (PSD) approach, which combines speculative design and participatory design. This research aimed to envision multiple futures of ‘digitally’ connected places with community members and provoke meaningful discussions to support policymakers.

Before her PhD, she worked as a marketing and technology analyst in a technology transfer office (TTO) at Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD) in Chile. Her role involved reviewing new technologies invented by the University researchers, analysing potential markets, and developing strategies to protect their intellectual property rights. However, she observed that there is often a lack of consideration or examinations for people who might be influenced mainly by the technologies. This observation in the TTO led to the journey of PhD questioning: What about the involvement of ‘people’ in this process right from the inception of technology invention or even before?