ckohtala @ckohtala@scholar.social

#introductions
hi all,
I'm a #design researcher studying community #technology activist workshops (#fablabs, makerspaces), mainly in Europe, from a Science and Technology Studies #STS perspective.

foregrounding socio-environmental #sustainability opportunities, #postcolonialism, #commons, #localism, #degrowth and #postcapitalism.

adore #photography as part of ethnographic research and all-round poetic goodness.

another funding application rejected

White paper: 'Women, welcome to discrimination 3.0', by Genoveva López
"Aurora Gómez, a psychotherapist specializing in digital behavior and gender, points out that for a platform to be considered feminist it must seek equality on three levels: 'With users, with workers and taking into account behavior with other companies and providers.'
'Technology reproduces the biases we have in reality, it reproduces what society already is...', says Sofia Scasserra, economist..."
https://p2pmodels.eu/women-welcome-to-discrimination-3-0/

#ScholarSocial
super pleased to have this published!
we look at #ParticipatoryDesign engagements and how to better conduct PD projects (and write them up).
PD and #codesign is often reported as a method study or single case study, leaving a lot of important stuff out. how methods, strategy, mundane work and design co-constitute each other is crucial - how designers do "translation" work in orchestrating collaboration

#designresearch #STS #CSCW #peerproduction
http://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/3781

#ScholarSocial #fablab #makerspaces #making #makers #makered
special issue of Global Studies of Childhood on children and makerspaces https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gsca/current

#openaccess #STS books #ScholarSocial
Assetization https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4848/AssetizationTurning-Things-into-Assets-in
Digital STS https://digitalsts.net/contents/

due to a large number of requests we've extended the deadline for full papers to 29 July
#Design contributions for the COVID-19 global emergency
Strategic #DesignResearch Journal
http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/pages/view/call

this is very good
https://newrepublic.com/article/158346/willful-blindness-reactionary-liberalism

Springer Nature has released these publications related to structural racism and police violence as open access
https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/black-lives-matter

Cambridge University Press is releasing a number of books open access on Protests, Policing and Race until 12 July
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/journals/protests-policing-and-race

[...]
Dammit!
What I mean is the cloudburst
(Which drenches us
and makes us huddle together
in the cold
Pickup our
only shelter.)

- Sidney Goldfarb, Solar-Heated-Rhombic-Dodecahedron, 1969

(cited here https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/assc/article/view/4917

a man
is blessed
who assists
in the building
of a solar-heated-
rhombic dodecahedron

I don’t mean
To say technology
Itself is holy
(though that too
may be
an element)

I mean
heat rises.
Rocks preserve heat.
Assymmetrical dwellings
can stand by themselves
if properly arranged.

No.
I mean the shovel
in my hands.
I mean
the cottonwoods
by the river.

I mean the dark
scent of dust
nudged up
by a few
new drops
of rain

[...]

P2P theory today: (1) conflate twitter mobs with informed critique.
(2) amplify disgust at twitter mobs directed at cultural/academic conservative voices w considerable platform + power
(3) ignore/disregard twitter mobs directed at POC academics manufactured by 8chan/far-right

"The poem below lists the reason why it is emotionally and physically costly for Indigenous, Black and racialized people to hold spaces for other people to learn about their complicity in systemic harm. Read the poem once and pay attention to the different kinds of responses it evokes in you. After you have read the poem once, read the instructions that follow for the second part of the exercise."
https://decolonialfutures.net/portfolio/why-i-cant-hold-space-for-you-anymore/

#ScholarSocial
'A feminist coven in the university'
"this article describes our backlash to the catastrophe of the neoliberal university, in the form of a feminist coven. The coven is both a theoretical space and material relationships between graduate students. ... According to Ahmed, ... ‘we need to work on the university when we work at the university,’ (‘Sara Ahmed,’ n.d.)."
#feminism #witches #academia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1681367