TY - GEN
T1 - Reconstituting the utopian vision of making
T2 - 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
AU - Lindtner, Silvia
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - HCI research has both endorsed "making" for its innovation and democratization capacity and critiqued its underlying technosolutionism, i.e., the idea that technology provides solutions to complex social problems. This paper offers a reflexive-interventionist approach that simultaneously takes seriously the critiques of making's claims as technosolutionist while also embracing its utopian project as worth reconstituting in broader sociopolitical terms. It applies anthropological theory of the global and feministutopianism to the analysis of findings from research on making cultures in Taiwan and China. More specifically, the paper provides ethnographic snippets of utopian glimmers in order to speculatively imagine and explore alternative futures of making worth pursuing, and in so doing reconstitute the utopian vision of making.
AB - HCI research has both endorsed "making" for its innovation and democratization capacity and critiqued its underlying technosolutionism, i.e., the idea that technology provides solutions to complex social problems. This paper offers a reflexive-interventionist approach that simultaneously takes seriously the critiques of making's claims as technosolutionist while also embracing its utopian project as worth reconstituting in broader sociopolitical terms. It applies anthropological theory of the global and feministutopianism to the analysis of findings from research on making cultures in Taiwan and China. More specifically, the paper provides ethnographic snippets of utopian glimmers in order to speculatively imagine and explore alternative futures of making worth pursuing, and in so doing reconstitute the utopian vision of making.
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U2 - 10.1145/2858036.2858506
DO - 10.1145/2858036.2858506
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014739749
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1390
EP - 1402
BT - CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -