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TUESDAY 2 July, 2024
[Background Image: Mushroom picking painted by Franciszek Kostrzewski from Wikimedia commons]
Data in Design and HCI research is often associated with something captured from the world in digital form and transferred to a database. However, the assumption of digitalization, as well as the intentions and values underlying it, can obscure more nuanced approaches to data, and are becoming increasingly criticized.
Data in Design and HCI research is often associated with something captured from the world in digital form and transferred to a database. However, the assumption of digitalization, as well as the intentions and values underlying it, can obscure more nuanced approaches to data, and are becoming increasingly criticized.
In this one-day workshop, we invite participants to critically review data concepts and practices that sustain Western industrialized socio-economic systems, considering their ethical, environmental, and ecological implications. In contrast, we will explore data in the entangled ecologies of organisms, matter, and environments, focusing on 'livingness' as a way to reveal embodied, relational, and situated aspects of data.
In this one-day workshop, we invite participants to critically review data concepts and practices that sustain Western industrialized socio-economic systems, considering their ethical, environmental, and ecological implications. In contrast, we will explore data in the entangled ecologies of organisms, matter, and environments, focusing on 'livingness' as a way to reveal embodied, relational, and situated aspects of data.
By wandering and foraging in the forest, we will explore how these aspects of data might help us regain our attentiveness, responsibility and care-fullness towards more-than-human ecologies, and ultimately reframe concepts of data in the world.
By wandering and foraging in the forest, we will explore how these aspects of data might help us regain our attentiveness, responsibility and care-fullness towards more-than-human ecologies, and ultimately reframe concepts of data in the world.
Call for Participation
Call for Participation
Please submit a 2-3 page position paper using the ACM Primary Article Template (excluding references from the page limit) to ylee2@ed.ac.uk by May 29, 2024 (May 24, 2024). Your submission should include research questions, background, motivation, work-in-progress, and outcomes related to this workshop topic, and can be in either positioning or pictorial format. We will select papers based on their relevance, quality, and diversity.
We welcome submissions from fields such as sustainable-HCI (SCHI), bio-HCI, more-than-human design, eco-feminism, and design for care, and beyond. Our interest extends to topics which include, but are not limited to:
Design concepts and practices that tangibly explore the ecological aspects of data
New perspectives on data and data practice in relation to the embodiment, relationality, and situatedness of worlds
Design explorations that highlight complexity in the differences and fluxes of lifeworlds through data ecologies, landscapes, and assemblages.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 29 May 2024 24 May 2024 (due to the early bird fee deadline of 30 May)
Notification of accepted submissions: 29 May 2024 30 May 2024
Workshop date: 2 July 2024
Note
At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the workshop and present a relevant artefact or thing related to their submitted work. Selected submissions will be published on this website. Questions about this workshop should be sent to ylee2@ed.ac.uk
Our workshop includes a foraging activity at a natural reserve, which is a 20-minute walk from the conference venue. Under the guidance of a local foraging expert, participants will have the opportunity to touch, smell, and taste various natural plants. To ensure inclusion and accessibility during the outdoor activity, we plan to communicate with participants who have mobility issues in advance, so we can offer the best possible support.
Workshop Organizers
Workshop Organizers
Youngsil Lee
Youngsil Lee
Larissa Pschetz
Mary Karyda
Oscar Tomico
Danielle Wilde
Tau Lenskjold
Rachel Clarke
Sara Heitlinger
Ann Light
Bettina Nissen
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