Nadia Campo Woytuk
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80% Seminar
You are welcome to attend the seminar marking 80% of my PhD. I will present my research in conversation with Will Odom, Associate Professor, School of Interactive Arts + Technology at Simon Fraser University.
When: Friday October 17th, 14.00 CEST
Where: AT KTH Campus, room 4618 or online (zoom link here︎︎︎)
Title: Feminist Sensing: Designing with the Leaky Menstruating Body
Abstract:
This thesis is about how we might design feminist ways of sensing the menstruating body. The thesis builds on a critique of mainstream self-tracking and sensing technologies and highlights how these technologies often perpetuate menstrual stigmas by distancing users from their bodies and giving primacy to quantitative and vision-dominant representations. Through a series of design cases that involve sensing through intimate interactions and bodily fluids, as well as speculative engagements with the more-than-human ecologies of the menstruating body, I explore how leakiness and tactfulness—both as material conditions and as metaphors—can be a resource for design. I argue how these contribute to ‘feminist sensing’, a kind of sensing that foregrounds feminist values and uplifts embodied, sensory, tactile, and material knowledge, diversity in bodily experiences, shared sensemaking, DIY (Do-It-Yourself) approaches to making, ownership and control over data, and sheds light on more-than-human relations.
