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Scaling Bodily Fluids For Utopian Fabulations
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1454-7854
AHO The Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7673-0822
2021 (English)In: Proceedings of the 9th Bi-Annual Nordic Design Research Society Conference: Matters of Scale, 2021, 2021Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper explores human bodily fluids for more-than-human collaborative survival. We present four utopian fabulations in which urine, menstrual blood, and human milk are designed with beyond the scale of a singular human body. Each fabulation illustrates queer scales and uses of bodily fluids through extended or improper uses as pathways towards caring multi-species relations within a damaged environment. From these narratives, we reflect on imagining generous collaborations for an openness towards unknowable possibilities and crafting different measures through the tensions of coinciding scales.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021.
Keywords [en]
bodily fluids, collaborative survival, queer scales
National Category
Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298043OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-298043DiVA, id: diva2:1573882
Conference
Nordic Design Research Conference
Funder
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research , RIT15-0046
Note

QC 20210629

Available from: 2021-06-28 Created: 2021-06-28 Last updated: 2023-01-09Bibliographically approved
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1. Designing with care: Self-centered research for interaction design otherwise
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Designing with care: Self-centered research for interaction design otherwise
2023 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This dissertation is about the research program designing with care as a pathway towards interaction design otherwise amid a world in crisis. Considering how established ways of doing interaction design will change involves recognizing the role of digital materials in social injustice and systemic inequality. These concerns are inseparable from the material complexity of interactive experiences and their more-than-human entanglements in care. Through five design experiments, I explore everyday human care as wickedly attending to some care doings and not others, and an intimate and generous questioning of oneself as human.

I offer four contributions for interaction designers and design researchers. The first contribution is designing with care. This research program draws upon care ethics and posthumanism to establish four axioms: everyday, wickedness, intimacy, and generosity. Within this programmatic framework, the second contribution is definitions of wickedness and generosity as ethical stances that can be taken by designers and researchers. The third contribution is the synthesis of my four methodological approaches: auto-design, spatial orientations, leaky materials, and open speculations. Each is a generative and analytical pathway towards more sustainable and just futures. The fourth contribution is five careful designs as prototypes of what interaction design otherwise might be like: technologies of human waste, spying on loved ones, leaky breastfeeding bodies, scaling bodily fluids, and a speculative ethics

From my research program and contributions, I discuss disciplinary resistances to suggest three possibilities for how I argue interaction design should change: engaging with mundane yet unrecognized topics, doing design work where the consequences would be present, and reconsidering how the formats of research publications could better reflect positionality. I then reflect upon the relevancy of self-centered research in moving beyond oneself for more sustainable worlds.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2023. p. 162
Series
TRITA-EECS-AVL ; 2023:7
Keywords
interaction design, care, care ethics, posthuman, posthuman feminism, more-than-human, design theory, research program, design otherwise, first-person, autotheory
National Category
Design Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Human-computer Interaction
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-322784 (URN)978-91-8040-457-0 (ISBN)
Public defence
2023-02-06, Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 6, Stockholm, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, RIT15- 0046
Available from: 2023-01-10 Created: 2023-01-09 Last updated: 2023-01-23Bibliographically approved

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