Data as a Material for Design: Alternative Narratives, Divergent Pathways, and Future Directions
Matthew Lee-Smith, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Audrey Desjardins, Mathias Funk, William Odom, Doenja Oogjes, Young-Woo Park, James Pierce, Pedro Sanches, Vasiliki Tsaknaki
Abstract
This one-day workshop will bring together a diverse group of practitioners and researchers within the CHI community to discuss and explore data's increasing use as a material for design. This workshop encourages the submission of design exemplars, i.e., physical or digital works (in progress), design processes, or provocative or controversial pieces on the topic of data as a design material. If we are to continue to explore what data means as a design material and how we will continue to co-exist with them in our everyday lives through new and exciting ways and means, we must develop new strategies, tactics, tools, and outcomes. By bringing together products, processes, and provocations, this workshop will nurture and extend the continuation of research inquiring into data as a design material in its many forms. Our workshop will be conducted through physical and digital activities before, during, and after the onsite event at CHI 2023.