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The Futures of Computing and Wisdom (workshop)

. I recently (September 29) organised a (Design Fiction) workshop, " The Futures of Computing and Wisdom " at the NordiCHI 2018 conference in Oslo together with Elina Eriksson (KTH), Rob Comber (KTH), Ben Kirman (York, UK) and Oliver Bates (Lancaster, UK). Here's a summary (from the workshop Call): There has been an increasing interest in discussing the consequences of the technologies we invent and study in HCI research, including non-technical dimensions (societal, ethical, normative) (Mankoff et al. 2013, Pargman et al. 2017). This is also apparent in the surge of interest in Design Fiction during the last 10 years (Bleecker 2009, Tanenbaum et al. 2013, Dunne and Raby 2013). Design Fictions have traditionally emphasised near-future developments, implications and consequences, but what about developments that lie one or several decades into the future? If we want to think about and discuss how computing will affect and change society decades from now, the focus cannot b...
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Homo Colossus In Real Life

. KTH Sustainability Office award money for small (maximum 100 000 SEK, maximum 1 year) interdisciplinary projects, " Environment and sustainability without boundaries " I handed in an application there a few minutes before the May 2 deadline, " Homo Colossus In Real Life (HC-IRL) ", together with co-applicants  Mario Romero (Associate professor in Human-Computer Interaction with focus on Interactive Computer Graphics & Visualization), Jonas Åkerman (environmental researcher and one of Sweden's premier researchers on GHG emissions in general and emissions from air travel in particular) and Per Hasselberg ( Konstfrämjandet /People's Movements for Art Promotion). I have written about Homo Colossus several times on the blog before ( November 2016 , again in November 2016 and in December 2017 ) so instead of explaining what that concept means, I just paste the short project description below (where I explain what the concept means). The project is basica...
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Circular thinking in sustainable HCI (workshop)

. My previous blog post was about a workshop proposal for the upcoming NordiCHI conference , but I'm also part of another workshop proposal for that conference, " Circular thinking in sustainable HCI: Revisiting the link between invention and disposal ". This proposal was spearheaded by Maja van der Velden from the University of Oslo and the workshop is organised together with Alma Leora Culén, Elina Eriksson, Daniel Pargman, Oliver Bates and Miquel Ballester. Both Maja and Oliver participated in our sustainability-themed NordiCHI 2016 workshop and we have discussed the possibility of putting together a workshop for NordiCHI 2018 workshop of quite some time, but it was only at the very end that things actually happened. When Maja took charge, the workshop also changed focused to closer align with her specific research interests . The aim of the workshop is thus to explore circularity as a principle of sustainable HCI. Every new invention should integrate its own disposa...
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The Futures of Computing and Wisdom (workshop)

. I recently submitted a workshop proposal to the upcoming NordiCHI conference , " The Futures of Computing and Wisdom ", together with Elina Eriksson, Rob Comber, Ben Kirman and Oliver Bates ( besides the article I submitted to NordiCHI two weeks earlier). Me and Elina have organised workshops at at the previous two NordiCHI conferences ( 2014 in Helsinki and 2016 in Gothenburg ). This workshop is however  not  a workshop about sustainability, but rather a workshop about Design Fiction (and Futures Studies). As such, it niftily connects to the NordiCHI Future Scenarios track . From our application: This workshop is also designed to complement the Future Scenarios track at NordiCHI (and shares an organiser). That unique track already brings speculation and design fiction to the NordiCHI conference, and this workshop will complement the track by providing a full day for exploring design fiction in shorter formats (abstracts rather than scenarios) and applying this process co...
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Books I've read (February-April 2017)

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. I read the four books below a bit more than a year ago, between mid-February and mid-April 2017. All four books relate to technology and its use in a social context but they also differ in various ways, for example in how much they relate specifically to computing. The asterisks (*) represent the number of quotes that can be found further down in this blog post.  Here's the previous blog post  about books I have read. **** I got my copy of  Pär   Blomkvist and Arne Kaijser 's   (1998) edited book " Den konstruerade världen: Tekniska system i ett historiskt perspektiv  [The constructed world: Technical systems in historical perspectives] directly in my hand from Pär Blomkvist 10 or so years ago. It has thus taken quite some time for me to come around to reading it, but the fact that it was written 20 years ago wasn't a big problems since it for the most part contains historical analyses of various aspects of the emergence and growth of Large Technica...
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