The Centre for Data Futures at King's College London is the first-ever dedicated academic centre of expertise to focus on designing and studying the effect of participatory infrastructure over the life of data-reliant tools: from the point of data generation, through data empowerment structures, all the way to interface design that incentivises long-term, collective participation.

This focus reflects the following conviction: if we are to be the authors of a variety of socially sustainable, data-reliant futures, data needs to become a tool for bottom-up socio-economic and political empowerment.

Our team

Professor Sylvie Delacroix	Director of the Centre for Data Futures
Professor Elena Simperl	Theme lead: Data Empowerment
Professor Lorenzo Zucca	Theme lead: Agency in Action: Forms and Frameworks
Professor Rafael Calvo	Theme lead: Incentivising collective, long-term participation through human-computer interface design
Roger Taylor	Impact Lead