Full Programme

This year’s DCODE Symposium will be hosted by the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. DCODE is a 4M European network and PhD program. Its mission is to train researchers and designers to guide society’s digital transformation towards inclusive, sustainable futures. DCODE fellows integrate five big post-disciplinary challenges (algorithms, interactions, value/s, governance, and design practice) to bridge the gap between people, technology, and society. The network brings together 40 researchers from 20 countries cutting across design, engineering, social sciences, and humanities.

The event offers keynotes, workshops, and networking activities that revise and extend user-centered and human-centered design to account for human entanglement with systems that learn, predict, and evolve across decentralized networks. It is part of the DCODE Summer School 2022, the third in a series of seven DCODE summer & winter schools across Europe.

Lunch and evening drinks will be provided in the main hall of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering.

Registration is required to determine the amount of catering

Time Schedule

09:00 - 09:45

Welcome and opening remarks

09:45 - 10:45

Keynote: Chris Frauenberger*

11:00 - 13:00

Design4AI Workshops - Round 1

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00

Design4AI Workshops - Round 2

16:00 - 17:00

Interactive Technology Design (AI prototyping) exhibition

17:00 - 18:00

Keynote: Virginia Tassinari*

18:00 - 18:15

Closing

18:15

Drinks

* Keynote presentations will be livestreamed

Keynote presentations

Posthumanism and Design: Configuring Desired Technological Futures

Chris Frauenberger

Christopher Frauenberger is a full professor in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg (Austria). He investigates and designs interactive digital technology in a wide range of contexts with groups who are often marginalized in mainstream innovation landscapes, e.g., autistic children. His research builds on new philosophical perspectives to conceptualize our increasingly entangled relationships with technology, unearthing the ethical, moral, epistemological, and ontological implications for designing technological futures. Chris is the author of the article “Entanglement HCI: The New Wave?” (TOCHI).

Re-Framing the (cosmo)political agency of designing.

Virginia Tassinari

Virginia Tassinari works to bridge the gap between design (participatory design, design for social innovation, design fiction, futures, etc), and social sciences (philosophy, anthropology and sociology). In this context, 10 years ago she and Ezio Manzini founded the DESIS Philosophy Talks, a platform for creating dialogues between designers and social scientists, starting from questions arising from design practice. in the social context, and leading to new tools/methods/forms of experimentation in design practice.

Design4AI Workshops

Workshop 1 - Sensing in the Wild – A More Than Human Approach

Have you ever considered yourself to be a part of a sensing system? Participants will be asked to use their bodies to tune into the tensions of crowdsensing systems and their proponents. By embodying different human and non-human roles, participants will gain awareness of the possibilities and consequences that open, decentralized systems might provide for future design practices and scenarios.

Organisers: Grace Turtle (IDE, Delft University of Technology), Carlos Guerrero Millan (Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh), Seda Özçetin (Umeå Institute of Design), Mugdha Patil (Hogeschool van Amsterdam).

Workshop 2 - Care + Play – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

This workshop will help participants consider critical issues of care, trust, and privacy in relation to sensing technologies in domestic and urban settings. By means of card-based speculative design methods, participants will role play and investigate future interactions between sensing technologies, care receivers, and the care networks around them from the perspective of the affected.

Organisers: Youngsil Lee (Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh), Aditi Surana (Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh), Robert Collins (Umeå Institute of Design), Yuxi Liu (IDE, Delft University of Technology), Sonja Rattay (Computer Science, University of Copenhagen).

Workshop 3 - Plumbing the Machine Learning Pipeline – How
Constraints Affect Our Good Intentions

In this workshop, participants will experience the constraints and contextual conditionings during the decision-making process in which AI systems are developed. Through a gamified approach, participants will act out a fictional Machine Learning design scenario for image classification systems and reflect on how values are embedded and ‘lost’ in industry practices.

Organisers: Mireia Yurrita Semperena (IDE, Delft University of Technology), Jacob Browne (Philips), Natalia-Rozalia Avlona (Computer Science, University of Copenhagen), Pamela Gil Salas (Umeå Institute of Design).

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