Centre for Technology and the Body

Technology has always intersected with the human body. The food that we eat, the medicine we take, the goods we consume and all the materials that make up our environment were all, at one time or another, based on technological innovation. Today, technologies impact on the ways we live, look, and experience the world around us – from the opportunities promised by assistive living to the challenges posed by surveillance and facial recognition systems. Technology has always, also, impacted on the body in gendered and racialised ways that reinforce individual, social, global hierarchies. And we, as humans, impact on technology through invention, adoption, or rejection. These processes demand in-depth ethical and critical reflection.

The Centre for Technology and the Body welcomes collaborative, critical investigation of the history, present and future of technology, and how it intersects with our physical, sensory, and emotional worlds.

The Centre for Technology and the Body is part of the Digital Futures Institute, which explores how we live well with technology. The Centre welcomes collaborative, critical investigation of the history, present and future of technology, and how it intersects with our physical, sensory, and emotional worlds.

The Centre for Technology and the Body director Fay Bound Alberti is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, she directs the project Interface, which explores the history and meanings of the human face.