Sophia Brueckner is an artist and engineer who prototypes alternatives to the tech industry’s limited visions for how we live with technology. She combines coding, digital fabrication, and electronics with traditional media. As an engineer at Google, she designed and built products used by tens of millions. At the RISD and MIT Media Lab, she researched tangible and social interfaces. Since 2011, Brueckner has taught Sci-Fi Prototyping, an internationally renowned course combining science fiction, extrapolative thinking, building prototypes, and technology ethics at MIT, RISD, and the University of Michigan. Brueckner’s work has been featured by Wired, The Atlantic, Artforum, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, and more. She was an artist-in-residence at Autodesk Pier 9 and Nokia Bell Labs E.A.T. She is currently an associate professor at the Stamps School of Art and Design and directs the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC) at the University of Michigan.