About

I am a research fellow at the Australian National University's HASS Digital Research Hub (HDRH), where I work on the socio-technical foundations of digital research infrastructure. 

My recent research sits at the fertile delta connecting philosophy of technology, design studies, infrastructure studies, and science and technology studies. I am the author of What Art Does: Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk About Art (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), and am currently putting the finishing touches on Design Function: How Objects Succeed and Fail (under contract with Bloomsbury).

From 2016 to 2025 I held positions at the University of Groningen, most recently as associate professor. I remain an adjunct fellow at the University of Groningen. From September 2022 to February 2024 I was a Humboldt research fellow at TU Darmstadt, and from September 2022 to January 2025 I was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Philosophy of the City Journal. 

I hold a PhD in art history and philosophy from the University of Sydney (2014), where I was also an HDR affiliate in the School of Art, Communication & English from 2022 to 2025.

You can email me at ryan.wittingslow@anu.edu.au or r.m.wittingslow@rug.nl. My LinkedIn is here and my full academic CV, including publications, can be found here.