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Announcing: A beautiful, open source zine template
Over the past months, I worked with Erhardt Graeff, Christina Harrington, and Daniela Rosner to organize the CSCW workshop Toward Equitable Participatory Design: Data Feminism for CSCW amidst Multiple Pandemics. The workshop took place on Sunday, Oct 18th, on Zoom with almost sixty people present from around the world.
In this workshop, we tried to reflect on this moment of multiple pandemics — including COVID-19, systemic racism and economic crisis — as a way to reset our relationships to each other and to the communities to whom we are accountable. We drew on the theoretical frameworks of data feminism and equitable participatory design. Data feminism describes a framework for dismantling power asymmetries undergirding data science, and equitable participatory design serves as a set of community-driven methods for approaching computing research with marginalized and vulnerable groups. Together, this framework and approach suggest that we address harms from overexposure caused by surveillance or algorithmic bias and from underexposure caused by design that is insufficiently participatory and equitable.
Participants at the workshop worked in groups to share stories about data, equity and/or community-academic collaborations and create zines from their shared stories. Since we knew that our time was limited and that many people would…
