TY - GEN
T1 - Entangled threads
T2 - exploring the value and significance of bringing a craft ethos to debates around the IoT/connected things
AU - Wallace, Jayne
AU - Marshall, Justin
AU - Verkerk, Jayne
AU - Heslop, Philip
AU - Clarke, Loraine
AU - Skelly, Martin
N1 - Funding: The hiCraft project is funded by an AHRC grant, ref: AH/V005189/1.
PY - 2024/2/11
Y1 - 2024/2/11
N2 - Alongside the benefits of a world in which more and more things are internet connected (i.e., the IoT), scaffolded by increasingly powerful AI systems, there is a growing recognition of a flipside to this vision of the future. Issues associated with privacy, transparency, legibility and trust have been widely recognized – which the Mozilla Foundation has encapsulated in their Internet Health Reports [13]. This workshop will explore these tensions and concerns through the lens of craft, both as a practice and a conceptual ethos. We will use embroidery as a craft-oriented ‘thinking through making’ activity as the foundation for discussions of our craft characteristics of which consist of; bespokeness, localism, embodiment, provenance, authenticity, and care. Participants will gain a rich understanding of debates around IoT while being engaged in a ‘thinking through doing’ embodied approach to gaining new insights and leave with their own hand embroidered badge.
AB - Alongside the benefits of a world in which more and more things are internet connected (i.e., the IoT), scaffolded by increasingly powerful AI systems, there is a growing recognition of a flipside to this vision of the future. Issues associated with privacy, transparency, legibility and trust have been widely recognized – which the Mozilla Foundation has encapsulated in their Internet Health Reports [13]. This workshop will explore these tensions and concerns through the lens of craft, both as a practice and a conceptual ethos. We will use embroidery as a craft-oriented ‘thinking through making’ activity as the foundation for discussions of our craft characteristics of which consist of; bespokeness, localism, embodiment, provenance, authenticity, and care. Participants will gain a rich understanding of debates around IoT while being engaged in a ‘thinking through doing’ embodied approach to gaining new insights and leave with their own hand embroidered badge.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85185217708
U2 - 10.1145/3623509.3634746
DO - 10.1145/3623509.3634746
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9798400704024
SP - 1
EP - 4
BT - Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI '24)
PB - ACM
CY - New York, NY
ER -