IAS Residential Fellow Ms Crystal Bitutu Isanda delivers a seminar on their research, followed by a lunch.

IAS Residential Fellow Ms Crystal Bitutu Isanda (https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/fellows/2026-27/isanda-crystal-bitutu/) delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Designing Legibility – How Do You Make Invisible Algorithmic Power Visible to the People It Governs?"

This seminar presents the Governance Legibility Design Framework emerging from the fellowship — a methodology for designing AI governance objects that communities, not just institutions, can see, understand, and act on. Rather than a conventional lecture, the session takes an exhibition format: the original Data Rights Card prototypes displayed alongside design audit outputs, with one design decision examined in detail to reveal what a governance legibility audit produces and why. Attendees encounter the methodology through its material output — in physical objects and visual documentation, seeing what community-centred governance design produces when applied to a problem affecting children in Kenyan classrooms. The session closes by opening the Framework to interdisciplinary critique: what would governance legibility require beyond East Africa? What does 'designed to be seen' mean across different cultural epistemologies of transparency?

Arrivals from 11:45 am for a 12:00 noon start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after the seminar from 1:00pm.

International House can be found here on the campus map (https://maps.lboro.ac.uk/?l=international-house).

If these in-person tickets have sold out, you can still join online by registering for the Teams webinar (https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ef0955c9-b873-4240-b614-0b807b96c886@cf264fc0-aeb8-449f-9054-82ce4454084b).

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