Doing thinking: revisiting computing with artistic research and technofeminism

Creative Methods for Creativity Research(ers)? Speculations

“…The logical, formalized, and abstract world of computer programming was juxtaposed with the artistic world that resisted formalizations to help raise critical awareness of power inherent in scientific versions of reality. The conceptualization of Haraway’s techno-feminism and concepts from new materialism gave rise to “hybrid methodologies” (Britton et al, 2019, p. 317) that informed participants’ creative and open-ended material interactions. Speculative games, such as missing geometries, helped participants to reimagine technological futures and their response-ability (responsibility and ability) highlighting different active economical and geopolitical conditions of surrounding matter.…”

“…Furthermore, Britton et al (2019) called for a material-speculative practice of “doing thinking” through their case study of an experimental project titled “reconfiguring computing through cyberfeminism and new materialism” (p. 313). Using three inventive methodologies, including intraaction, diffraction, and material speculation, these researchers brought together computer scientists with performance/visual artists to practice choreographed methodological openness.…”

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“…An important aspect to mention is that the TC subject foundation offers a specific grounding in a Scandinavian tradition of participatory design (Bødker & Kyng, 2018;Smith, Bossen, Dindler, & Iversen, 2020) and usage of prototyping, as methods to include future users in the design of a new product or technology (Misfeldt, Tamborg, Qvortrup, Petersen, Svensson, Allsopp & Dirckinck-Holmfeld, 2018). Participatory design values the process through which democracy, empowerment and learning are pursued; it fosters collaborative work and thinking (Britton et al, 2019). Moreover, prototyping pays attention to the way achievements are sustained and scaled (Halse, 2010).…”