Engaging the social and political in designing technologies

Engaging the social and political in designing technologies Nitin Sawhney explores the role of human-centered research and design, beyond the Continue reading →

Ecologies of Contestation in Participatory Design

We presented a talk on our research around contestations in participatory design at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC 2020). Ecologies Continue reading →

Cooperative Crisis Response among Emergency Responders & AI Systems

Emergency responders are increasingly functioning as knowledge workers relying on complex information systems, social media, and digital communication for situational Continue reading →

Conducting HCI Research in the Wild: Distributed Cognition and Situational Awareness

We are seeing a dramatic shift in the nature of computing in our everyday lives, increasingly entering people’s homes, bodies, Continue reading →

Democratizing Data: Grassroots Strategies for Human Rights

Seen as essential to understanding human life, data informs and shapes knowledge creation. It is powerful, political, and for generations has Continue reading →

Designing in Public Space: Contestation & the Politics of Inclusion

How might we transform public urban spaces to better engage communities? How do we design a process that incorporates the Continue reading →

GIDEST Talk on Contestational Design

Participatory design for some often implies common purpose, stakes and equitable dispositions among participants engaging in a consensual process towards amenable design outcomes. Continue reading →

Performance as Memory, Transforming Contested Spaces

My recent essay “Zona Intervenida: Performance as Memory, Transforming Contested Spaces” will be published as a chapter in the book Rethinking Continue reading →