TY - GEN
T1 - HCI, politics and the city
T2 - Engaging with urban grassroots movements for reflection and action
AU - Kuznetsov, Stacey
AU - Odom, William
AU - Paulos, Eric
AU - Moulder, Vicki
AU - Wakkary, Ron
AU - DiSalvo, Carl
AU - Hirsch, Tad
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Grassroots initiatives enable communities of stakeholders to transform urban landscapes and impact broader political and cultural trajectories. In this two-day workshop, we present opportunities to engage HCI research with activist communities in Vancouver, the city hosting CHI'11. Working directly with local activist organizations, we explore the processes, materials, challenges, and goals of grassroots communities. Our bottom-up approach, including explorations of urban spaces and activist headquarters, participatory design sessions, reflection, critique and creative design of political artifacts will bring together a diverse group of HCI researchers, activists and artists. The workshop will result in concrete strategies for bottom-up activism and serve to inform the design of future interactive systems in the domain of political computing.
AB - Grassroots initiatives enable communities of stakeholders to transform urban landscapes and impact broader political and cultural trajectories. In this two-day workshop, we present opportunities to engage HCI research with activist communities in Vancouver, the city hosting CHI'11. Working directly with local activist organizations, we explore the processes, materials, challenges, and goals of grassroots communities. Our bottom-up approach, including explorations of urban spaces and activist headquarters, participatory design sessions, reflection, critique and creative design of political artifacts will bring together a diverse group of HCI researchers, activists and artists. The workshop will result in concrete strategies for bottom-up activism and serve to inform the design of future interactive systems in the domain of political computing.
KW - Political computing
KW - Urban computing
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U2 - 10.1145/1979742.1979568
DO - 10.1145/1979742.1979568
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79957947129
SN - 9781450302289
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2409
EP - 2412
BT - CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
ER -