InspireLab supports projects that develop and use technology to improve conditions for women, address concrete equality challenges, and contribute to a sustainable society. The focus is on women’s lived experiences from an intersectional perspective and aim to improve women’s conditions, as well as on technological development.
Ultrasound Elastography of Female Pelvic Floor Muscles: Hyperelasticity as a Biomechanical Marker of Birth Injury
Female Pelvic Floor Muscles.
This project contributes to a future where healthcare is more equal by advancing diagnostic tools tailored to women’s health—addressing childbirth-related pelvic floor muscle injuries with cutting-edge ultrasound technology. By improving detection and personalised care, the project not only aims to improve women’s health outcomes and reduce long-term suffering, but also supports a more inclusive, sustainable healthcare system.
Instead of a check-box approach at the start, this project aims to enable digital consent as something which is ongoing, embodied, and negotiated over time. Using the case of deep-fake-porn (DFP), a form of gendered violence that is predominantly harming women, the project will focus on mitigating the non-consensual creation, exploitation, and distribution of DFP material.
The missing data: Reimagining AI Systems to Challenge Structural Silences
AI-generated image
This project aims to challenge the structural erasures embedded in AI by surfacing what is too often ignored: marginalised voices, invisible labour, and environmental harm. Rooted in intersectional feminist justice, it reimagines how AI systems are built—not as tools designed for communities, but with them. It aims to support more inclusive, accountable, and sustainable futures, where those most affected by technology help shape its development.
