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Orus designs future technologies for navigating the space-time of ideas. As a mixed-race refugee settler born in northern Abya Yala and living in Turtle Island’s Treaty 13 (Toronto, Canada), they ally themselves to Indigenous-led technological futurities by contributing to AI research and multi-epistemological STEM transdisciplinarity. Castaño-Suárez earned their M.A. in Digital Futures (DF) from OCAD University, while working across programs with Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI), where they published their thesis, What May Be Known, supported through guidance from experts at institutions such as CERN and UNESCO, and funded in part by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. They contribute to Canadian and international research through collaborations with Harvard Divinity School, the Abundant Intelligences Indigenous AI network, the Visual Analytics Lab, and others.
In the Towards Equitable Sustainability Transitions (TEST) Lab, Castaño-Suarez works with Evan Bowness to develop ontological and computational bridges between hydrology, Indigenous wisdom, and settler allyship to develop locally-led climate change adaptation.
