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Antonia Bruno

Antonia Bruno

Design researcher and multidisciplinary maker, MA Fashion Futures graduate (2025) of London College of Fashion, UAL; guest on the Justice as Attitude Club podcast.

Sep 16, 2026

2:17
So Antonia, over to you.
2:19
Yeah, I'm excited to be here.
2:21
Thank you for having me.
2:23
So I kind of wanted to start today's conversation with a little bit of like historical context around robots, the word robots, and kind of where that all AI tech originated.
2:35
So the word robot actually comes from a Czech word, robata, meaning forced labor or servitude.
2:40
And it was introduced in the 1920s in a play where artificial workers eventually revolt against humans.
2:48
And I think that that kind of really is quite interesting in the terms of, you know, we really think that tech and AI is really this modern thing.

27 MINS LATER

30:04
And I think it nicely links back to the talking about the robot at the beginning, actually, because when you when you when you well, basically, you made these incredible headpieces that were to be worn as folkloristic embodiments of these intuition and emotions.

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