As designers intervening into other peoples life on an often very subtle level, we carry a lot of responsibility. Despite the awareness of such, design research and practice are much infused by our implicit beliefs, values, preferences and interests. This in turn leads to biased ways of working, counteracting our designerly attempts to make fair and inclusive creations that help people.

In my thesis 'Grasping tacit knowledge through AI-designer confrontation' I thus want to explore my own biases when it comes to gender, by looking at myself from different perspectives. Key technology in these experiments will be AI, in form of classifier, GAN's (generative adversarial networks) or language processing tools, helping me in becoming aware of my own gender biases, better understanding my unconscious associations and challenge my way of thinking in narrow categories.