Unmaking@CHI: Concretizing the Material and Epistemological Practices of Unmaking in HCIShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Digital Library, 2022, p. 1-6, article id 105Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Sustainable development
SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Abstract [en]
Design is conventionally considered to be about making and creating new things. But what about the converse of that process – unmaking that which already exists? Researchers and designers have recently started to explore the concept of “unmaking” to actively think about important design issues like reuse, repair, and unintended socio-ecological impacts. They have also observed the importance of unmaking as a ubiquitous process in the world, and its relation to making in an ongoing dialectic that continually recreates our material and technological realms. Despite the increasing attention to unmaking, it remains largely under-investigated and under-theorized in HCI. The objectives of this workshop are therefore to (a) bring together a community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in exploring or showcasing the affordances of unmaking, (b) articulate the material and epistemological scopes of unmaking within HCI, and (c) reflect on frameworks, research approaches, and technical infrastructure for unmaking in HCI that can support its wider application in the field.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ACM Digital Library, 2022. p. 1-6, article id 105
Keywords [en]
HCI, unmaking, design, digital fabrication, critical design, making, design methods
National Category
Design
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-111387DOI: 10.1145/3491101.3503721Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85129711945ISBN: 978-1-4503-9156-6 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-111387DiVA, id: diva2:1652350
Conference
CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022-5 May 2022
Projects
Un/Making Matters, Swedish Research Council 2017-02198
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2017-02198
Note
Selection process: juried. "Workshops will be selected through evaluation by a small jury and the Workshops chairs."
2022-04-192022-04-192024-07-03Bibliographically approved