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

Cayla Key; Cally Gatehouse; Nick Taylor

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

Cayla Key, Cally Gatehouse, Nick Taylor

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Digital Wellbeing
Editors	Florian `Floyd' Mueller, Stefan Greuter, Rohit Ashok Khot, Penny Sweetser, Marianna Obrist
Place of Publication	New York, US
Publisher	ACM
Pages	677-692
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450393584
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533540
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2022
Event	DIS '22: Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Online, Online, Australia Duration: 13 Jun 2022 → 17 Jun 2022 https://dis.acm.org/2022/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3532106

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Name	Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Proceedings
Publisher	ACM

Conference

Conference	DIS '22
Abbreviated title	DIS '22
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Online
Period	13/06/22 → 17/06/22
Internet address	https://dis.acm.org/2022/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3532106

Keywords

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

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Key, C., Gatehouse, C., & Taylor, N. (2022). Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI. In F. F. Mueller, S. Greuter, R. A. Khot, P. Sweetser, & M. Obrist (Eds.), DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing (pp. 677-692). (Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Proceedings). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533540

Key, Cayla ; Gatehouse, Cally ; Taylor, Nick. / Feminist Care in the Anthropocene : Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI. DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. editor / Florian `Floyd' Mueller ; Stefan Greuter ; Rohit Ashok Khot ; Penny Sweetser ; Marianna Obrist. New York, US : ACM, 2022. pp. 677-692 (Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Proceedings).

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Key, C, Gatehouse, C & Taylor, N 2022, Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI. in FF Mueller, S Greuter, RA Khot, P Sweetser & M Obrist (eds), DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Proceedings, ACM, New York, US, pp. 677-692, DIS '22, Online, Australia, 13/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533540

Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI. / Key, Cayla; Gatehouse, Cally; Taylor, Nick.
DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. ed. / Florian `Floyd' Mueller; Stefan Greuter; Rohit Ashok Khot; Penny Sweetser; Marianna Obrist. New York, US: ACM, 2022. p. 677-692 (Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Proceedings).

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Key C, Gatehouse C, Taylor N. Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI. In Mueller FF, Greuter S, Khot RA, Sweetser P, Obrist M, editors, DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing. New York, US: ACM. 2022. p. 677-692. (Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Proceedings). Epub 2022 Jun 13. doi: 10.1145/3532106.3533540

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