SUSTAINABILITY INTRODUCTION TRANSCRIPT

Morning everyone! I am Dr. Steph Jordan from Michigan State University’s Department of Media and Information. I am thrilled to host today’s panel on Sustainability for this year’s hybrid CHI 2022 here in New Orleans and here on the internet. This is day one and we are coming to learn what it means to do a hybrid panel so please enjoy and have grace with this experiment. We will hear from each of the presenters and then take approximately 5 minutes of questions after each presentation. I will be both monitoring our room and monitoring Hubble for questions from the audience and I will attempt to give you equal advantage to getting your question in so you can be in conversation with these incredible speakers today who are pushing us to consider the environmental impacts of our designs, considering how to care for our earth through an expansive set of methodologies and perspectives. We will start with a sociological and economic perspective built through a strong team of researchers from Portugal

Hitting the Triple Bottom Line: Widening the HCI Approach to Sustainability

by Sabrina  Scuri, Marta  Ferreira, Nuno Nunes, Valentina  Nisi, and Cathy  Mulligan

then we will move our field over to the Swedish Energy Agency and a powerful investigation of how power outages could be reconceived and reconciled to continue a good life in

Exploring Renewable Energy Futures through Household Energy Resilience

by Hanna  Hasselqvist, Sara  Renström, Maria  Håkansson, and Helena  Strömberg

then we will discuss novel workshops for sustainable living and living experiments as a novel collective practice in England through

Negotiating sustainable futures in communities through participatory speculative design and experiments in living

by Simran  Chopra, Rachel E Clarke, Adrian K Clear, Sara  Heitlinger, Ozge Dilaver, and Christina  Vasiliou

then we hop back to Sweden where we can see much of the most important work of sustainability in HCI is occurring, to understand the situatedness and relationality of local knowledge, assets and infrastructures in environments under the new framework of Digital Environmental Stewardship in

Towards Digital Environmental Stewardship: the Work of Caring for the Environment in Waste Management

by Chiara  Rossitto, Rob  Comber, Jakob  Tholander, Mattias  Jacobsson

SPECULATIVE DESIGN INTRODUCTION TRANSCRIPT

Hello! I am Dr Stephanie Jordan from Michigan State University’s Department of Media and Information. I am honored to host today’s panel on Speculative Futures and Design Fiction for this year’s hybrid CHI 2022 here in New Orleans and here on the internet. This is day one and we are coming to learn what it means to do a hybrid panel so please enjoy this experiment 🙂 We will hear from each of the presenters and then take approximately 5 minutes of questions after each presentation. I will be both monitoring our room and monitoring Hubble for questions from the audience and I will attempt to give you equal advantage to getting your question in so you can be in conversation with these incredible speakers today who are pushing our community to engage in antioppressive practice in HCI at every stage of design, through multiple forms of critical technical practice and deep community engagement.  We will find in this space a range of interests and outcomes but they are united in their participatory careful qualitative and ingenious ways of listening to communities that embrace fiction as a place where we can draw attention to both challenges and champions. We will start with our awarded CHI 2022 honorable mention built from Octavia Butler’s motivating words:

“All that You Touch, You Change”: Expanding the Canon of Speculative Design Towards Black Futuring

by Christina  Harrington,  Shamika  Klassen, and Yolanda A. Rankin

that feels immediately essential, whose reference list is its own story, and that I imagine is the only CHI publication with a 4 line Janelle Monae block quote.

then we will hear from a group of careful scholars at Cornell University investigating the values in design of sensors on the farm, where urban logics come up against rural infrastructure development and its maintenance  in

Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture

by Gloire  Rubambiza, Phoebe  Sengers, and Hakim  Weatherspoon

then an incredible coauthored paper developed by both scholars and community members that shares with us a series of workbooks and cards for designing with black and brown communities, iterated upon through rich and at times heartbreaking feedback from surveys and semi-structured interviews in

Radical Futures: Supporting Community-Led Design Engagements through an Afrofuturist Speculative Design Toolkit

Kirsten E Bray, Christina  Harrington, Andrea G Parker, N”Deye  Diakhate, and Jennifer  Roberts

and we will close the session with a discussion of  a thoughtful ongoing process of meaningfully engaging those who experience racism and envisioning together what  social support in experiences of interpersonal racism might be possible which  includes one of the most chaotic technologies I have heard in CHI, the Racism Alarm in

Interactive Fiction Provotypes for Coping with Interpersonal Racism

by Alexandra  To, Hillary  Carey, Riya  Shrivastava, Jessica  Hammer, and Geoff  Kaufman