Joseph La Delfa

Hello!

I'm Joseph La Delfa, a design researcher with experience in industrial and interaction design. My work explores how our relationships with autonomous machines [🦾🛵🚗🤖 etc] form, change and evolve.

Building and testing zany machines is a core part of this process, as well as paying close attention to what we sense and how we act when we use them.

I explore questions like: How do we understand the machines in our lives? How do we come to appreciate them? How do they become meaningful to us?

My approach is a mix of soma design, industrial design and more recently evolutionary robotics. 

This work has applications in academia for example as research-through-design as well as in industry as R&D or in depth user studies