2d:null 2e:["$","title",null,{"children":"Overview | HCID | Observable"}] 33:T656,*This class will provide students with the knowledge and skills to conduct design that is led by justice. Students will engage with themes including environmental sustainability, fairness, equality, and social cohesion.* As technology enters all aspects of our lives, designers are faced with an ever-increasing array of ethical and social challenges. Technology is increasingly amplifying existing inequalities and injustices such as racist and sexist discrimination through new algorithms, social media, and machine learning, as well as contributing to environmental destruction through energy-consuming computational systems. In this class, students will learn about a growing body of design research that is responding to the challenges we face as a species on a finite planet. Design, as a broad field of study and practice, is investing in new ways to respond to these challenges. It is also taking responsibility for the impact of technology on these challenges. Students will be introduced to frameworks, approaches, perspectives, methods and tools from design that: a) critically examine the ways in which design harms people and the planet, and b) reposition design towards justice, sustainability, fairness and equality. The class will be facilitated by engaging and experimental forms of learning. Through case studies and practical experiments, students will gain experience of justice-led design. Central, will be adopting a critical perspective to design that both interrogates the ethical and social challenges triggered by technology, and finds new roles for designers to address issues of justice. 34:T65e,### Week 1: #### Tech is not neutral: A stage for Design Justice Tech is too often presented as neutral or inert, and only made malign when put to use. In our first week, we'll explore this positioning of tech; we'll examine how tech's design relies on logics that emerge from distinct political geographies and troubling histories of erasure, exploitation, oppression and human exceptionalism. This will set the stage for a *design justice* in which design is approached as _a force of resistance and action_, offering alternatives to damaging logics that dominate and prevail in contemporary life. > **Read:** Sasha Costanza-Chock (ed.) [Design Justice for Action](https://designjustice.org/s/DJ_2017_Issue3.pdf). [_Design Justice Network_](https://designjustice.org/zines); Chapter 1 from: Sasha Costanza-Chock (2020) *Design Justice: Community-led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need*. The MIT Press. ([City Library](https://go.exlibris.link/rQcmqkMK)) > > **Listen:** [Smart Tech Is Designed For Control](https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/17_smart_tech_is_designed_for_control_w_jathan_sadowski) (41:08) – Jathan Sadowski on *Tech Won't Save Us*. > > **Watch:** [What Don Norman helps illustrate](https://www.tiktok.com/@professorcasey/video/7179020440537566510?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7185553633399424518) (0:57) – Dr. Casey Fiesler on _Tiktok_. > > **Optional**: Stephanie T. Jones and natalie araujo melo (2021) [We Tell These Stories to Survive: Towards Abolition in Computer Science Education](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42330-021-00158-2). *Can. J. Sci. Math. Techn. Educ.* 21, 290–308.35:T44f,### Week 2: #### An interlude (*of sorts*): Data Feminism (*and [Observable](https://observablehq.com/about)*) Week 2 will be largely practical, offering a grounding in using data through the powerful *[Observable](https://observablehq.com/about)* platform. Our aim will be to develop the skills needed to explore intersecting social issues through multiple sources of data and information, and build narratives through this exploration. The skills learnt will be grounded in data journalism, but also the ideas presented in the book *[Data Feminism](https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/)* by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein. > **Read:** Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein (2020) Data Feminism ([City Library](https://go.exlibris.link/n6KMKNYc)); [Analyzing Design Narratives](https://designjustice.org/s/DESIGNJUSTICEZINE_ISSUE1.pdf) in Issue #1: Principles for Design Justice). > > **Listen:** [Why We Need a Democratic Approach to Data](https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/44_why_we_need_a_democratic_approach_to_data_w_salome_viljoen) – Salomé Viljoen on *Tech Won't Save Us*. 36:T7c5,### Week 3: #### More than equal: Tech and intersectional (design) justice Tech is increasingly being discussed in terms of fairness and responsibility. This week, we will aim to make sense of this framing and how it connects with design. We will also aim to shift attention away from a neutral language of designing tech for *equality* and towards an *intersectional justice*. > **Guest speakers:** Jackie Kay and Christina Lu from [Deepmind](https://www.deepmind.com/), speaking about "[*Subverting machines, fluctuating identities: Re-learning human categorization*](https://www.deepmind.com/publications/subverting-machines-fluctuating-identities-re-learning-human-categorization)". > > **Read:** Chapter 1. from: Arturo Escobar (2018) *Designs for the Pluriverse*. Duke University Press. ([City Library](https://go.exlibris.link/hyTPm7Z2)); Christina Lu, Jackie Kay, and Kevin McKee (2022). [Subverting machines, fluctuating identities: Re-learning human categorization](https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533161). In _Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '22)_. ACM Press. > > **Watch:** [Which Humans? Innovation, Equity, and Imagination in Human-Centered Design](https://youtu.be/kDcz44ifdQw?t=81) – Ruha Benjamin for _CHI '21 Conference_ keynote. (Also see [From park bench to lab bench - What kind of future are we designing?](https://youtu.be/_8RrX4hjCr0) – Ruha Benjamin for _TEDx_; [Viral Justice](https://youtu.be/PFKvShyNj-4) – Ruha Benjamin on _Factually_). > **Optional:** Sheena Erete, Aarti Israni, and Tawanna Dillahunt (2018) An intersectional approach to designing in the margins. interactions 25, 3 (May-June 2018), 66–69. ([City Library](https://go.exlibris.link/LXQzhSS6)). Noura Howell, Britta F. Schulte, Amy Twigger Holroyd, Rocío Fatás Arana, Sumita Sharma, and Grace Eden. 2021. Calling for a Plurality of Perspectives on Design Futuring: An Un-Manifesto. CHI EA '21. ACM Press. ([City Library](https://go.exlibris.link/QPBlNMQy))37:T684,### Week 4: #### Automating labour: AI and its colonial legacies Latest innovations in AI (and indeed other technologies) are often celebrated for their algorithmic capabilities to predict, personalise, recommend, respond or automate like never before. This hyped discourse on AI recognises its remarkable computational capacities but overlooks the human labours involved in training and supporting AI systems. In week 4, we will examine this rarely considered but indispensable part of AI and automation, paying attention to the ways in which human labours support AI systems, their historical legacies and overlaps with colonial geographies, how they are rendered invisible and the implications of not being seen (and valued). Through this understanding, we will consider issues concerning justice for automating workers and the role of design in responding to them. > **Read:** > > **Listen:** [The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation](https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/101_the_poorly_paid_workers_powering_automation_w_phil_jones) – Phil Jones on *Tech Won't Save Us*; [What Gig Work Means for Women in India](https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/86_what_gig_work_means_for_women_in_india_w_noopur_raval) – Noopur Raval on *Tech Won't Save Us*. > **Optional**: Billy Perrigo (Jan 2023) [OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic](https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/). Time magazine; Laura Preston (Dec 2022) [Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/13/becoming-a-chatbot-my-life-as-a-real-estate-ais-human-backup). Guardian38:T4f5,### Week 5: #### More than human worlds: Sustaining the relations The design of technology, if not always human centred, centres the human. That is, it hinges on the idea of human exceptionalism, where '*the human*' is the pinnacle (and source) of progress and modernity. This idea neglects the deep and entangled relations people hold with other nonhuman things and the environment, and the relations that necessitate a flourishing planet. In week 4, we will consider how a more than human perspective shifts attention away from designing for human mastery or control and towards multispecies relations that need to be sustained. This designing for the more-than-human will be shown to extend beyond immediate human-nonhuman relations and offer a powerful framework for design justice. > **Guest speaker**: [Michelle Westerlaken](https://michellewesterlaken.com/) from University of Cambridge. > **Read:** Aykut Coskun, et al. 2022. More-than-human Concepts, Methodologies, and Practices in HCI. In CHI EA '22. ACM Press. ([ACM Digital Library](https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516503)) > > **Listen:** > > **Optional:** Alex Taylor (2017) What Lines, Rats, and Sheep Can Tell Us. *Design Issues* 33 (3): 25–36. 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Class Summary

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Outline

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\n> *Read:* J Fedtke, et al. (2022) ['Zombies for their profit': social networks in the age of surveillance capitalism](https://doi.org/10.1145/3516816)\n\n> *Optional*: P Verdegem (2022) [Dismantling AI capitalism: the commons as an alternative to the power concentration of Big Tech](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-022-01437-8).","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":174,"value":"### Week 8:\n#### The Pandemic is a portal: Feminist technoscience & a Cyborgian (design) adventure
\nHow do we go beyond justice-led critique and move into a space for design? In week 8, we'll discuss possibilities for exploring more generative and hopeful human-machine entanglements. We'll see how moments of friction (and earthwhile damage) can be reimagined as conditions for alternative futures.\n
\n> *Read:* Chapter 5. from: Escobar, A., 2018. *Designs for the Pluriverse*. Duke University Press. ([City Library](https://go.exlibris.link/hyTPm7Z2));\n> Arundhati Roy (2020), [The Pandemic is a Portal](https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca). (Also see [Video](https://aas.princeton.edu/news/pandemic-portal))
\n\n> *Optional:* Donna Haraway (1991), [A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/donna-haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto)","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":180,"value":"### Week 9:\n#### Group presentations and discussions #1","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":178,"value":"### Week 10:\n#### Designing Disruption and Protest: Zines and other means
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\n> **Read:** Carl Disalvo (2015) _Adversarial Design_. MIT Press. ([City Library](https://go.exlibris.link/vkHJNsNw)); [Design as Protest](https://www.dapcollective.com/active-campaigns) website.\n>\n> **Listen:** [How to Defeat an Apple Store](https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/21_how_to_defeat_an_apple_store_w_tania_davidge) – Tania Davidge on *Tech won't Save Us*","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":182,"value":"### Week 11:\n#### Group presentations and discussions #2","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":336,"value":"

General Reading

","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"html","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":7,"value":"Ahmed, S., 2016. *Living a Feminist Life*. Duke University Press.\n\nBenjamin, R., et al., 2019. *Captivating Technology*. Duke University Press.\n\nBrowne, S., 2015. *Dark Matters*. Duke University Press.\n\nHaraway, D., 2013. *Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature*. Routledge.\n\nCostanza-Chock, S., 2020. *Design Justice: Community-led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need*. The MIT Press.\n\nCrawford, K., 2021. *The Atlas of AI*. Yale University Press.\n\nD'ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). *Data Feminism*. MIT press.\n\nDisalvo, C. 2015. *Adversarial Design*. MIT Press.\n\nEscobar, A., 2018. *Designs for the Pluriverse*. Duke University Press. ([City Library](https://go.exlibris.link/hyTPm7Z2))\n\nRosner, D.K., 2018. *Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design*. MIT Press.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":60,"value":"

Appendix

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