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
Secure Your Home IoT with the CryptoCrochet-Key 🧶🔐
The CryptoCrochet-Key is part ‘hack’ and part ‘pedagogical device’ that defamiliarizes existing computational practices (learning code) from an intersectional feminist lens. Using a handy yarn named ‘Crypto’, I encrypt a physical key through crochet and then teach a computer to recognize the crocheted key using Machine Learning. This project is created to be inclusive and empowering for those skilled in other ways than traditional programmers and to show how their skills can contribute to a critical discussion of data-driven technologies—i.e. by putting the tech to radically different uses.
Here you will find a link to the 3 part tutorial to the CryptoCrochet-Key. It begins with instructions for making the key and then moves to the Machine Learning part of the project. The final part shows how to run the CryptoCrochet-Key Machine Learning model securely on a Raspberry Pi 4.
The image below is a screenshot from the hacker news platform hackster.io which originally covered this project.
