– A selection of my writings and blogposts –
I was recently invited to give a talk at The Conference, a two-day gathering in Malmö, Sweden which “delves into the promises and pitfalls of human-machine-nature-and-more relationships”. I’m sharing some notes in this medium post from my talk surrounding the challenge of getting people to participate in changing their environment, and bringing about collective actions using some of my recent projects, and why we should get ourselves messy in creating cities that might work for everyone.
In this medium post, we show how a ‘collective intelligence’ approach through the project Pollution Explorers Collective Action (PECA), can get people working together on air quality issues, can help double impact. Building on previous work such as WearAQ and Pollution Explorers, in PECA we worked with a larger group of people over a long period of time, to look at whether groups of people provided with a platform to gather their ‘collective intelligence’ (for inter-group collaboration and communication) would perform better (in terms of air quality impact and commitment) than those who did not.
The Living Prosthesis: Limits of Human Bearability
The writing is part of Organs Everywhere issue: “Ghostly”, which peers into phantasms, shaky boundaries, experimental design interfaces and speculative futures
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This paper is submitted as part of the proceedings of FASCINATE Conference: Thoughtful Technology & Beautiful Interfaces. I was also invited to be one of the speaker for the conference.
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