"We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on": On designing technologies for activism and the commemoration of lost lives

Angelika Strohmayer; Janis Meissner; Alexander Wilson; Sarah  Charlton; Laura Mcintyre

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395452

"We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on": On designing technologies for activism and the commemoration of lost lives

Angelika Strohmayer, Janis Meissner, Alexander Wilson, Sarah Charlton, Laura Mcintyre

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Abstract

On the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (IDEVASW), sex worker rights advocates and support services commemorate lives lost due to violence. In this paper we describe and reflect on a Feminist Participatory Action Research project that supported the activities of IDEVASW over two years in North East England. Working alongside a charity that provides services to women who are sex workers or have experienced sexual exploitation, we co-organised the first activist march on the day. As researchers and service providers, we present detailed reflections on the use of digital technologies during the public activist march, a private service for commemoration, and the development of a semi-public archive to collect experiences of the day. We develop three implications for the design of digital technologies for activism and the commemoration of lost lives: as catalysts for reflection and opportunities to layer experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Subtitle of host publication	More than human centred design
Publisher	ACM
Pages	87-100
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450369749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395452
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2020
Event	DIS2020: Designing Interactive Systems 2020: More than Human Centred Design - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 https://dis.acm.org/2020/

Publication series

Name	DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Conference

Conference	DIS2020: Designing Interactive Systems 2020
Abbreviated title	DIS
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20
Internet address	https://dis.acm.org/2020/

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Activism
Archives
Feminist participatory action research
Justice-oriented hci
Remembrance
Sex work

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Strohmayer, A., Meissner, J., Wilson, A., Charlton, S., & Mcintyre, L. (2020). "We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on": On designing technologies for activism and the commemoration of lost lives. In DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: More than human centred design (pp. 87-100). (DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395452

Strohmayer, Angelika ; Meissner, Janis ; Wilson, Alexander et al. / "We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on" : On designing technologies for activism and the commemoration of lost lives. DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: More than human centred design. ACM, 2020. pp. 87-100 (DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).

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"We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on": On designing technologies for activism and the commemoration of lost lives. / Strohmayer, Angelika; Meissner, Janis; Wilson, Alexander et al.
DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: More than human centred design. ACM, 2020. p. 87-100 (DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).

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Strohmayer A, Meissner J, Wilson A, Charlton S, Mcintyre L. "We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on": On designing technologies for activism and the commemoration of lost lives. In DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: More than human centred design. ACM. 2020. p. 87-100. (DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference). doi: 10.1145/3357236.3395452

"We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on": On designing technologies for activism and the commemoration of lost lives

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