Feminist posthumanist design of menstrual care for more-than-human bodies

MLJ Søndergaard, N Campo Woytuk - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social stigma and human exceptionalism have contributed to unsustainable menstrual
products and a neglect for the nutrients in menstrual blood that can enrich soil. In a …

Felt experiences with Kombucha Scoby: Exploring first-person perspectives with living matter

N Ofer, M Alistar - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Designing with living organisms can offer new perspectives to design research and
practices in HCI. In this work, we explore first-person perspectives through design research …

Decentering Through Design: Bridging Posthuman Theory with More-than-Human Design Practices

I Nicenboim, D Oogjes, H Biggs… - Human–Computer …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While decentering the human has been a key approach in posthumanist HCI, there are still
questions and tensions around it. To address them, we outline emergent notions of …

AdaCAD: Parametric design as a new form of notation for complex weaving

L Devendorf, K Walters, M Fairbanks, E Sandry… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Woven textiles are increasingly a medium through which HCI is inventing new technologies.
Key challenges in integrating woven textiles in HCI include the high level of textile …

On the Making of Alternative Data Encounters: The Odd Interpreters

A Desjardins, J McWhirter, J Petelka, C Simon… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While data are the backbone for home Internet of Things'(IoT) functional and economic
model, data remain elusive and abstract for home dwellers. In response, we present the Odd …

The making (s) of more-than-human design: introduction to the special issue on more-than-human design and HCI

E Giaccardi, J Redström, I Nicenboim - Human–Computer …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Human activities have drastically altered the planet, with design playing a significant role.
While design may intend to do good, its consequences are not always positive: from climate …

Turner Boxes and Bees: From Ambivalence to Diffraction

R Wakkary, D Oogjes, N Sakib, A Behzad - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This paper is a Research through Design (RtD) investigation that deeply reflects on our
ambivalence with three design choices we made while designing in a multispecies context …

Exploring the composite intentionality of 3D printers and makers in digital fabrication

S Somanath, R Wakkary, O Ettehadi, H Lin… - … Journal of Design, 2022 - research.tue.nl
In this paper, we identify new relationships between technologies and people in the context
of digital fabrication. Our research applies a postphenomenological lens to understand and …

Redlining Maps and Terrains of Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Mapping of Racialized Redlining to Present-Day Sustainability Agendas in HCI

H Biggs, S Suttles, S Bardzell - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We ask how historic redlining, a US government run, racially discriminatory practice of
assessing and mapping property values for federally subsidized home loan eligibility in the …

Designing with the more-than-human: Temporalities of thinking with care

G Oktay, Y Ikeya, M Lee, B Barati, Y Lee… - … Publication of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
This one-day workshop brings together HCI researchers, designers, and practitioners to
engage with more-than-human temporalities in the context of designing with care. We invite …