About Superflux

We live in challenging yet exciting times. While on one side the work we do involves excitement about the possibilities that the future could bring, on the other hand there are concerns as the finite resources we live with, are fast depleting.

We believe design can play a pivotal role in encouraging dialogues between different trajectories and enable development of ideas that can push us towards desirable futures. For this we work closely with experts from a range of disciplines: science, technology and social science amongst others.

At this Studio, we use a  hands-on approach to design for 'Superfluxes': for the big changes of our times.

 
Our Key Clients and Commissioners include:
Microsoft Research Cambridge, Nokia Design, Design Council, EPSRC UK, STBY, Live|Work, Arts Council England, Unwired Ventures, AADI Centre India, Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art and The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House.

Our Key Awards include:
UNESCO Digital Arts Award, design project ‘Yellow Chair Stories’.
First Prize, Design for our Future Selves Awards, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Inclusive Design.
‘Award of Excellence’, DuPont, Inc., and ICSID (International Council of Society of Industrial Designers)
Highly Commended, Apple Computers Inc. International Design Competition.
Innovation Award,  film ‘Journeys’, Chicago International Documentary Festival.


Grand Prix, film ‘Journeys’,  Geneva international film festival for Human Rights.

Meet the Superflux Crew:

Anab Jain, Founder and Partner:

Educated in India, Vienna and London, Anab is the Founder of Superflux. She has more than seven years of experience in interaction design, research and film, having worked on strategic and speculative technology projects for a wide range of businesses, think-tanks and research organisations. The recipient of the Award of Excellence ICSID, UNESCO Digital Arts Award, and Grand Prix Geneva Human Rights Festival, Anab has also presented her work at MoMA, New York, Apple Computers Inc, LIFT Geneva and SIGGRAPH LA amongst others. Anab has recently been made a TEDIndia Fellow. Full CV here. Email: anab@superflux.in

Jon Ardern, Partner:

Jon Ardern is a designer making work that seeks to question current social, political and economic  paradigms, exploring both the aspirational and problematic alternatives.To date Jon's work has been shown at the MoMA New York, V&A London, presented as a paper at the Changing the Change conference, Torino and won prizes from UNESCO to name but a few. In his other role with us, Jon often brings his expertise in open source web applications to the Superflux table.

Liam Young, Associate:

After working for a number of high profile architectural offices including Zaha Hadid Architects and LAB Architecture Studio, designer and critic Liam is now a tutor tourist coordinating design studios at the AA, Bartlett and other schools in Europe and Asia. His studio projects delve into the projective worlds of speculation and fiction which form critical instruments for instigating debate about the social, architectural and political consequences of emerging biological and technological futures. Liam is a regular contributor to a number of publications of urban fictions and futures, and contributes his urban design expertise to Superflux.

Chris Hand, Associate:

With a background in HCI research, software development and electronics, Chris works as an interaction designer and lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, where he is also programme leader for the master's and bachelor's degree courses in Interaction Design.  He specialises in ubicomp and physical computing, prototypingexperimental and critical designs, as well as running workshops and hacklabs. Chris's role at Superflux is Creative Technologist. 

STBY, Associates:

STBY specialise in social research for service design and innovation and work collaboratively with Superflux on a series of projects. STBY does consumer research during the early stages of innovative service design projects, working on the cross roads of industry and academia, with an extensive background in both.  Its a network company based in London and Amsterdam, with strong links to specialised partners around the world.