[Air-L] call for workshop @ ECSCW <Discomfort in the making of technologies: (re-) choreographing agency>

[Joana Chicau]

Dear list members,

We are hosting a workshop at the 22nd European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW<https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2024/>), happening June 17th–21st, 2024 in Rimini, Italy. Please find the details below:
Discomfort in the making of technologies: (re-) choreographing agency
Workshop team: Kristina Popova (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Joana Chicau (Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London), Rebecca Fiebrink (Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London), Rob Comber (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Clàudia Figueras (Stockholm University)

Website: https://cci.arts.ac.uk/~jchicau/ECSCW24-workshop/index.html

Abstract
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.

We hope you will consider joining us!
Warmly,
Joana Chicau
s/her / ela

associate lecturer (FHEA)
designer, researcher, performer
{[(joanachicau.com<https://joanachicau.com/>)]}

University of the Arts London
Creative Computing Institute
www.arts.ac.uk/cci<http://www.arts.ac.uk/cci>




Joana Chicau
s/her / ela

associate lecturer (FHEA)
designer, researcher, performer
{[(joanachicau.com<https://joanachicau.com/>)]}

University of the Arts London
Creative Computing Institute
www.arts.ac.uk/cci<http://www.arts.ac.uk/cci>

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