Design is often cast as a way to streamline government and social services. But in our work with communities, time and again we encounter situations in which there is a value to friction and calling attention to disjunctions. Drawing on research in Human-Computer Interaction and Science and Technology Studies, we characterize these situation as seamful… Continue reading Seamful Civics, with Carl DiSalvo
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Edinburgh Culture & Communities Mapping Project, with Morgan Currie
From March to July 2019, the ‘Edinburgh Culture and Communities Mapping Project,’ held seven public mapping events that invited people from the cultural sector to offer their perspective on the city’s cultural infrastructure – to name spaces and vital community hubs they value. The result is an interactive map of cultural spaces that artists, art… Continue reading Edinburgh Culture & Communities Mapping Project, with Morgan Currie