I am an independent design researcher with a critical making practice via craftivisms, hardware hacks and re-appropriations of data-driven technologies.
Open Hardware Project: Moon-phases + Period tracking Calendar
Research Article: Artificial Everyday Creativity
Project: Ferozkoh Jaali in P5js - code + rhythm
Open Hardware Talk: Knotty Hardware
Research Workshop: Venetian Drawing Conversations
Research Pictorial: Drawing Conversations Mediated by AI
Research Pictorial: Exploring Kolam As An Ecofeminist Computational Art Practice
Open Hardware Project: BOOB-Factor Authentication in Banjara Embroidery
Open Hardware Project: Internet of Towels - Knotty Articulations
Open Hardware Project: Secure Your Home IoT with the CryptoCrochet-Key
Open Hardware Project: Make Your Own Resistor Cushion
Research Article: Making Everyday Things Talk
Research Workshop: More-Than-Human Design & AI
PhD Dissertation: Researching IoT Through Design
Research Workshop: Encountering Ethics In Data-Enabled IoT
Research Article: The Role of Participation in Designing For IoT
Book chapter: Feeling At Home with the Internet of Things
Research Article: Platform Ethics in Technology
Research Article: Where is the Interface?
Research Project: Thing (Data) Perspectives
Research Project: Ethnography of Open Street Mapping
Research Project: Living with a Smart Plug
Research Workshop: Subverting IoT Futures
Platform Ethics in Technology 🌏️
DRS track - Ethics, Values and Designer Responsibility. Proceedings in Design Research Society - Catalyst, Limerick, Ireland, 25–28 June 2018
Reddy, Anuradha and Hellström Reimer, Maria. 2018. Platform Ethics in Technology: What happens to the User?. Proceedings of DRS 2018, Vol 1, Pages 144-157
Paper Abstract
In recent times, the design of technology platforms has been largely driven by the optimization of data flows in large-scale urban initiatives. Even though many platforms have good intentions, rising expectations for data efficiency and reliability, the configuration of users and user’s interactions inevitably have ethical consequences. It has become increasingly difficult to foresee how a wide diversity of users fares against a spatially complex and materially incomplete management and distribution of data flows. Through the logic of platformization, we explore how this plays out in the context of open mapping platforms - in the case of an individual elderly street-mapper, Stig. Drawing from design anthropology, we present an anecdotal account of Stig’s experiences of street mapping, showcasing his attempts to adapt to the demands of the mapping platform sometimes at the expense of his own wellbeing. Opening up to the complexity of the situation, we discuss the ethical dissonances of platforms, hence questioning the role of design in such complex modes of data production and consumption.
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