A space for sex work: An intersectional feminist approach to brothels in the context of decriminalisation

This project deals with spaces for a historically neglected collective: sex workers. It aims to destigmatize the practice by representing the workers and the material conditions that determine their safety and well-being every day, of which architecture is part.<br/>Articulated from an intersectional feminist point of view, the research...

More-than-human Concepts, Methodologies, and Practices in HCI

The last decade has witnessed the expansion of design space to include the epistemologies and methodologies of more-than-human design (MTHD). Design researchers and practitioners have been increasingly studying, designing for, and designing with nonhumans. This panel will bring together HCI experts who work on MTHD with different nonhumans as...

The Ecological Turn in Design: Adopting a Posthumanist Ethics to Inform Value Sensitive Design

Design for Values (DfV) philosophies are a series of design approaches that aim to incorporate human values into the early phases of technological design to direct innovation into beneficial outcomes. The difficulty and necessity of directing advantageous futures for transformative technologies through the application and adoption of value-based...

Transient Natures: Posthuman Landmaking at Koshkar-ata Tailings Pond

My graduation project implements a liminal ecological and infrastructural process. A remixing of territory that shakes, shifts and reorders the landscape. It is the story of 5 machines stirring up a potent response to devastating and unconventional pasts, presents, and futures. <br/>

Can I touch you online?: Reshaping Touch Communication: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda.

This paper introduces art and research on disrupted, touch in networked environments in which realities merge. Aesthetic sensory disruption and haptic distribution are purposefully designed for reflection, in a new type of ‘dialogue space’. The effects of embodied cognition, with respect to trust and experience, are explored in Artistic Social...