Feminist Technoscience in Practice: Fabulating through and with data archives
Feminist Technoscience in Practice: Fabulating through and with data archives
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Feminist Technoscience in Practice: Fabulating through and with data archives
Date: May 12th 2025, 15:00-18:00 (CET)
Location: IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S
15:00 - 16:00 (CET) Open Guest Lecture with Vasiliki Tsaknaki and Louie Søs Meyer - Fabulating through and with data archives [Room: Aud 4]
We will provide a brief introduction to the notion of fabulation, offering a set of techniques and orientations for re-thinking past and present technologies and for developing alternative futures. We will then focus on (data) archives and show some examples of existing projects on how to develop or remake datapoints and datasets that offer new perspectives on stories from the past, present and future. We will end with probing the notion of fabulating through and with data archives as a form of crafting and (re)making from a feminist perspective.
16:00 - 18:00 (CET) Workshop with Vasiliki Tsaknaki and Louie Søs Meyer [Room: ScrollBar (0E01)]
In the first part of the workshop, we will present a toolkit for creating knotted data archives that invite reflection on relations to data by knotting experiences of privacy and trust of Menstruation and Fertility Tracking Apps (MFTAs). This will be used as an example of using hands and yarns for developing data archives in a material form, highlighting issues of labor, intimacy and privacy. Fabulation approaches will also be introduced to help rethink the creation of such archives.
In the second part of the workshop, we will invite participants to explore the approaches introduced and experiment with those themselves, with a focus on their own practice/projects/interests. The following question will guide this part: “How can I use fabulation as an approach to (re)think the development of data archives?".
About Feminist Technoscience in Practice
ETHOS Lab invites interested students, researchers, and practitioners to take part in a series of events titled ‘Feminist Technoscience in Practice’. The events focus on the practical application of digital and critical feminist methods.
The events are rooted in technical practices but are tailored to accommodate any level of technical experience. Participation is open and free for anyone interested, but registration is required.
About the guests:
Vasiliki Tsaknaki (she/her) is an Associate Professor at the HCI & Design Section at ITU. Her research combines materials experiences, computational crafts and body-based design methods. Through practice-based studies, she investigates and reflects on intersections of these areas, probing the space of designing for wellbeing and exploring (bio)data as a design material.
Louie Søs Meyer (they/she) is a queer technologist, software developer and design researcher. They currently work on a Ph.D. project in the HCI & Design Section at ITU. Their research investigates machine learning as a design material with a focus on art, bodies and wearable technologies. They are particularly interested in crafting alternative ways of unveiling and interacting with algorithms.
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ETHOS Lab is a critical feminist methods laboratory at the IT University in Copenhagen. We are dedicated to experimentation at the intersection of digital methods, ethnographic inquiry, and speculative fabulation.
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IT Universitetet i København , Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 København
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