James Auger

James Auger is an enseignant chercheur and directeur adjoint in the department of design at École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay. Between 2005 and 2015, he was part of the critically acclaimed Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art (RCA), teaching on the MA programme and working on the development of critical and speculative approaches to design and technology, completing his PhD on the subject in 2012. After the RCA, James moved to Portugal to conduct research at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI), co-founding the Reconstrained Design Group with Julian Hanna and developing projects that explored the potential of the island as an experimental living laboratory through a combination of fictional, factual, and functional multi-scale energy-related proposals and projects. James is also a partner in the speculative design practice Auger-Loizeau, a collaboration founded in 2000. Auger-Loizeau projects have been published and exhibited internationally, including MoMA, New York; 21_21, Tokyo; The Science Museum, London; The National Museum of China, Beijing and Ars Electronica, Linz. Their work is in the permanent collection at MoMA.

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