Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI

Cayla Key, Cally Gatehouse, Nick Taylor

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

    33 Citations (Scopus)
    21 Downloads (Pure)

    Abstract

    As posthumanist or post-anthropocentric research in HCI and design proliferates and further commits to working with more-than-humans, design research practitioners are left with many open questions and uncertainties with how to productively engage with more-than-humans in their thinking and working. This paper present results from a workshop with 17 researchers working at the intersection of care ethics and posthumanism to highlight tensions in posthumanist engagement aimed at unpacking some of the challenges, obstacles, and questions encountered by researchers interested in more-than-human centered design. In foregrounding tensions with representation, legitimization, unseen labor, and material narratives we contribute to a design research agenda which seeks to explicate and challenge dominant anthropocentric forces from design. We conclude by discussing epistemological care and urge practitioners to take up new ways of imagining through truly messy methods which contribute to a feminist unsettling of HCI's methodological commitments, practices, and praxis.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
    Subtitle of host publicationDigital Wellbeing
    EditorsFlorian `Floyd' Mueller, Stefan Greuter, Rohit Ashok Khot, Penny Sweetser, Marianna Obrist
    Place of PublicationNew York, US
    PublisherACM
    Pages677-692
    Number of pages16
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450393584
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 13 Jun 2022
    EventDIS '22: Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Online, Online, Australia
    Duration: 13 Jun 202217 Jun 2022
    https://dis.acm.org/2022/
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3532106

    Publication series

    NameDesigning Interactive Systems Conference - Proceedings
    PublisherACM

    Conference

    ConferenceDIS '22
    Abbreviated titleDIS '22
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    CityOnline
    Period13/06/2217/06/22
    Internet address

    Keywords

    • Anthropocene
    • Indigenous
    • Knowledge
    • design
    • ethics
    • feminisms
    • feminist
    • methods
    • more-than-human
    • posthumanism
    • workshops

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this