ECSCW '24: the 22nd European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
June 17th-21st @ Rimini, Italy
Joana Chicau, Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London;
Kristina Popova, Media Technology and Interaction Design , KTH Royal Institute of Technology;
Rebecca Fiebrink, Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London;
Rob Comber , KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Clàudia Figueras , Stockholm University;We invite CSCW scholars to collaboratively explore discomfort in the practices of technology design and production. As technology practitioners, we are often believed to have responsibility for the development of technology, yet building of technology is always a collective enterprise. We are inviting the workshop participants to explore the collective, embodied, experiential and ecological nature of technology production with the help of choreography-inspired techniques. The first part of the workshop will be devoted to the sharing of participants’ submissions. In the second part, with the help of body-based exercises, we will articulate the discomforts of building and researching technology in the age of surveillance capitalism. The main workshop goal is to facilitate community building among the tech practitioners and researchers, who share the experience of discomfort around topics such as ecological crisis, post-colonialism, and social (in)justice. Our second goal is to explore the limits of individual responsibility in small and large scale technology production. Our third goal is to create a shared data base of methodologies of exploring discomfort and, more broadly, the embodied nature of technology.
The workshop is structured as a full-day event. In the first part, we will have a round of introductions where workshop participants will present their submissions:
In the second part we will conduct an embodied exploration of the issues:
This is a full-day workshop, more details soon.
We welcome anyone with an interest in the workshop themes, in particular, but not exclusively, discomfort around realising ethical issues in technological development. We are especially interested, but not limited to, practitioners working in areas such as:
Those interested in taking part in the workshop are invited to send us a short reflection on the workshop themes. We are open to various submission formats, such as a 2-3 written pages, a 3-5min video, a portfolio of artistic practices or a combination of the above.
Please fill-in this form where you will find a section to upload your short reflection as described above.
Note1: deadline for showing interest is 1st June (registering early helps us plan, but feel free to get in touch after this deadline in case there are still spots available).
Note2: you will also need to register for the ECSCW'24 conference using the online registration system.
If you have any questions, contact Kristina (kpopova@kth.se) and/or Joana (j.chicau@arts.ac.uk).