GEORGE MIHAI

I address uncertainty through design, research, cognitive science, and ethics for companies developing products that care about people's cognitive autonomy

I am a designer and philosophy PhD student who researches how technology affects the development of cognitive abilities and moral character.

Previously, I studied cognitive science for a master's degree, where I developed Cognitive Centered Design: An ethical framework for fiduciary adaptive systems.

Now, I founded Poiesis Lab, an experimental lab that combines design, philosophy, and psychology to help companies that care about the impact their brand and products have on people's lives.

POIESIS LAB

Poiesis Lab is an experimental lab that uses design, philosophy, and psychology to reduce uncertainty for companies that care about their reputation and impact

A website, a brand, and an application are concrete outputs. These are often what companies focus on. But how about the immaterial impact of what these bring to people's lives?

What are the unseen effects of the interaction with your brand, product, or service? Are these influencing people's lives positively or negatively? What are the uncertainties, and which are the unasked questions before investing in the redesign of the brand, website, or product?

These are the kinds of questions we explore at Poiesis Lab in multidisciplinary teams of designers, philosophers, physicists, psychologists, and engineers.

Poiesis Lab's name is inspired by the Greek word "poiesis," which means to bring into reality what didn't exist before. That's what we do at Poiesis Lab.

POIESIS MAGAZINE

Poiesis Magazine is my newsletter with essays on design, cognitive science, philosophy, and more.

Design is a discipline that influences how individuals, communities, and society evolved from the first hammers to the latest AI models.

It influences how we live, work, interact, move and think.

This requires to look at an designed artifact from a technological, human and antropological perspective.

Discover how a philosophical theory from 17th century is correlated with social media, how linguistic is used to influence our choices or how adaptive user interfaces driven by AI influence the development of cognitive abilities and moral character.

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