Co-creating our digital futures - who is the we and what are the futures?

Description

In this talk, I reflect on a series of participatory design projects which sought to involve neuro-diverse children in the design of digital technology. Throughout these engagements, our aim has been to empower children and enable them to participate in exploring meaningful roles of technology in their lives. However, taking a critical stance and a closer look reveals complicated and dynamic power configurations that reflect diverse goals and needs which shape design processes and their outcomes. I will discuss how understanding design as politics - in small and big ways, with humans and non-humans - has helped us escape the urge of narrow problem-solving and sharpened our senses for aspects such as diverse measures of success, leaving the field or staying with the trouble. Stemming from these reflections, I aim to make an argument for blurring the divide between design and use and discuss the various ways in which humans and non-humans participate in how we make sense of and enact the world.

Period	23 Nov 2021
Event title	GenZ Talks
Event type	Online-Lecture series
Location	Oulo, FinlandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International