About

I am a senior research fellow at the Australian National University's School of Cybernetics, as well as a research fellow at the ANU HASS Digital Research Hub (HDRH).

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 Design, Function, and Human Flourishing: Or, What to Make of What We Make (Bloomsbury, 2027).

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.