[liberationtech] CfP: Social Justice, Design, and HCI (CHI '16 workshop)

[Mariam Asad]

**apologies for cross-posting** 

Hi folks, 

Some colleagues and I are co-organizing a one-day workshop at CHI 2016 in San Jose, CA and we’d like to invite y’all to participate. The Call for Participation— as well as workshop details, submission dates, and additional information— is available online <http://depts.washington.edu/tatlab/socialjustice/> now [1]. 

The goal of the workshop is to first and foremost build a community of researchers, practitioners, and organizers around the intersection of technological design and social justice. Specifically, we seek to facilitate the conversations necessary to move beyond “design with good intentions” toward design praxis, or reflection and action directed to transform oppressive structures with and by the dispossessed, marginalized, and oppressed. There are examples of projects that contend with individual systems of oppression—­­however, there is presently no unified community or common understanding of how these research projects and activism can hang together. Moreover, there is a clear need to unpack and provide nuanced understandings of HCI projects that promote “good”.

Second, we strive to build knowledge together. In our experience with social justice related projects, there are particular questions that need a broad range of experiences and perspectives to help answer. For example: “How can researchers balance commitments to research and the particular activist project at hand?” or “How can different principles of social justice inform HCI methods such as decolonization or intersectionality?” In particular, we are interested in building knowledge around design methods, researcher reflexivity, and different epistemic approaches toward design. Just as design is often generative and future looking, so too are social justice endeavors. As the late Grace Lee Boggs, a feminist social activist and philosopher, stated, “…we have the power within us to create ourselves and the world anew”.

Early deadline for submission is December 14. 
Apply to submit here: http://depts.washington.edu/tatlab/socialjustice/submit/ <http://depts.washington.edu/tatlab/socialjustice/submit/> 
Any and all questions can be sent to us organizers at socialjusticeanddesign at gmail.com <mailto:socialjusticeanddesign at gmail.com>. 

Thanks— we look forward to seeing folks' submissions! 

-mariam 

[1] http://depts.washington.edu/tatlab/socialjustice/ <http://depts.washington.edu/tatlab/socialjustice/>

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Mariam Asad
PhD Student, Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology
@mariamnotmiriam || 404-735-8505

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