Understanding, Promoting, and Designing for Sustainable Appropriation of Technologies by Grassroots Communities. Towards a new wave of technological activism: Sustainable Appropriation of Technologies by Grassroots Communities

TY - GEN

T1 - Understanding, Promoting, and Designing for Sustainable Appropriation of Technologies by Grassroots Communities. Towards a new wave of technological activism

T2 - C&T '21: Communities & Technologies 2021

AU - Teli, Maurizio

AU - Rossitto, Chiara

AU - Lewkowicz, Myriam

AU - Bødker, Susanne

N1 - Conference code: 10

PY - 2021/6

Y1 - 2021/6

N2 - Technological development and adoption are characterized by historical waves, reflecting both technical advancements and social transformations in mutually constitutive relation. Today, we are in the middle of another of these waves characterized, for instance, by the widespread focus on AI and other emerging technologies. In this context, activists and designers are constructively appropriating these emerging technologies, thus showing how socio-technical aspects of technological design, development, and implementation, contribute to ongoing transformations of power relations, life conditions, and our collective future. This workshop aims at bringing together CandT researchers and practitioners interested in understanding, promoting, and designing forms of sustainable appropriation of contemporary technologies by grassroots communities. With sustainable appropriation, we refer to a wider concept of sustainability including ecological and social aspects, as presented for example in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

AB - Technological development and adoption are characterized by historical waves, reflecting both technical advancements and social transformations in mutually constitutive relation. Today, we are in the middle of another of these waves characterized, for instance, by the widespread focus on AI and other emerging technologies. In this context, activists and designers are constructively appropriating these emerging technologies, thus showing how socio-technical aspects of technological design, development, and implementation, contribute to ongoing transformations of power relations, life conditions, and our collective future. This workshop aims at bringing together CandT researchers and practitioners interested in understanding, promoting, and designing forms of sustainable appropriation of contemporary technologies by grassroots communities. With sustainable appropriation, we refer to a wider concept of sustainability including ecological and social aspects, as presented for example in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

KW - Appropriation

KW - Emerging Technologies

KW - Grassroots

KW - Sustainability

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109356328&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3461564.3468163

DO - 10.1145/3461564.3468163

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85109356328

SN - 9781450390569

SP - 332

EP - 335

BT - C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age of Tech

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

CY - New York

Y2 - 20 June 2021 through 25 June 2021

ER -