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DIS 2026
National University of Singapore
Meet the AI Moment:
Meet the AI Moment:
Using Afrofuturism and Technowomanism Together as Technological Practice
Using Afrofuturism and Technowomanism Together as Technological Practice
Want to attend? Click the button above to respond to the call for contributions.
The deadline for submission is May 31st, 2026 at Midnight AOE (Anywhere on Earth). Acceptance on rolling basis.
Day 1
Day 1
Decentering and Deconstructing
On the first day, we will focus on Decentering and Deconstructing. We will spend time getting to know each other and building trust, facilitating discussions on decentering and deconstructing, and close day one with the Black Mirror Writers’ Room exercise.
Day 2
Day 2
Constructing a Collaborative Toolkit
On the second day, we will again set aside time to build trust at the top of the hour. Next, we will focus on Black futuring and Afrofuturist praxis. The last activity of the workshop will be co-constructing a toolkit, followed by discussions and next steps.
Abstract
Abstract
Much ink has been spilled writing about the capabilities, advancements, and ails of Artificial Intelligence. Our workshop endeavors to bring together each of these discussions under a framing that centers People of the Global Majority and their concerns and hopes for AI.
Much ink has been spilled writing about the capabilities, advancements, and ails of Artificial Intelligence. Our workshop endeavors to bring together each of these discussions under a framing that centers People of the Global Majority and their concerns and hopes for AI.
The lenses through which we will discuss and discern are Afrofuturism, a centering of the African diaspora in a multifaceted praxis of futuring across genres, and technowomanism, an ethical praxis grounded in the wisdom of Black women. Over two days, our collective will deconstruct and discover a toolkit for designing AI applications that can honor and uplift not only People of the Global Majority but all of society.
The lenses through which we will discuss and discern are Afrofuturism, a centering of the African diaspora in a multifaceted praxis of futuring across genres, and technowomanism, an ethical praxis grounded in the wisdom of Black women. Over two days, our collective will deconstruct and discover a toolkit for designing AI applications that can honor and uplift not only People of the Global Majority but all of society.
Keywords: Afrofuturism, Design, Technowomanism, Artificial Intelligence
Organizers
Organizers
Dr. Brooke Bosley
Dr. Brooke Bosley
Dr. Brooke Bosley is an Afrofuturist Black Feminist Scholar, User Researcher, and Educator. She earned a Master's and a Doctoral degree in Digital Media from Georgia Institute of Technology, where she conducted research on Afroturist Feminism and Healing Justice.
Dr. Shamika Klassen
Dr. Shamika Klassen
Dr. Shamika Klassen graduated from Stanford with an African and African-American studies degree. She earned an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York where she developed technowomanism. She received a Ph. D. in Information Science at the CU Boulder and is currently a UXR at Google.
Dr. Christina Harrington
Dr. Christina Harrington
Dr. Christina Harrington employs community-based participatory research and speculative co-design to support health equity and ethical AI. She is an Assistant Professor in the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Director of the Equity and Health Innovations Design Research Lab, and has a courtesy appointment in the School of Design.
Dr. Felipe Almeida
Dr. Felipe Almeida
Felipe Almeida, Ph.D., is a transdisciplinary thinker currently working as Education Program Manager at the non-profit Rooted Futures Lab, an organization working at the intersection of environmental justice and technology. He completed his Doctorate in 2019 at HEC's Montreal Tech3Lab, and worked as Senior Researcher in BigTech until early 2025.
Isis Asare
Isis Asare
Isis Asare is the founder and CEO of Sistah Scifi, the first Black-owned sci-fi and fantasy bookstore in the U.S., and Executive Director of SFWA. She is the former Executive Director of Aunt Lute Books and holds degrees from Stanford, Columbia Business School, and Harvard University.
MC
MC
MC (Mandeep Chahal) is a researcher interested in community-based work and multi-media artifacts. She studied Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior at UC Davis before earning an MS in Community Health and Prevention Research from the Stanford School of Medicine. She is a UXR at Google based out of San Francisco, California.
Hope Idaewor-Bless
Hope Idaewor-Bless
Hope Idaewor-Bless is a design and research leader with 7+ years of experience informing strategic, inclusive product-making and experiences. With a background in Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction, Hope’s expertise lies in guiding teams to build transformative products for the future through foundational and exploratory research.
Yasmin Salih
Yasmin Salih
Yasmin Salih is a Seattle-based UX/UI designer and a University of Washington Master of Science student. Her work explores the intersection of pop culture, digital spaces, and cultural trends, with a focus on game development, media entertainment, systemic racial imbalances, and Afro-feminist studies.
Please consider submitting!
Please consider submitting!
Want to attend? Click the button above to respond to the call for contributions.
The deadline for submission is May 31st, 2026 at Midnight AOE (Anywhere on Earth). Acceptance on rolling basis.
Workshop Submissions
Workshop Submissions
Position Papers
Position Papers
Interested participants read Harrington et al.’s paper, “All that You Touch, You Change…” and submitted a 1-2 page position paper, using DIS ACM citation practices, that answered the question, “How can Afrofuturist, Technowomanist, and Afrofuturist feminism inform an actionable critique of AI’s present shortcomings while equipping a technology design process that utilizes an equitable design canon?"
Christina N. Harrington, Shamika Klassen, and Yolanda A. Rankin. 2022. “All that You Touch, You Change”: Expanding the Canon of Speculative Design Towards Black Futuring. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 450, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502118
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