Making Core Memory

Rosner, Daniela K.; Shorey, Samantha; Craft, Brock; Remick, Helen

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174105

Cited by 75 publications

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“…Rather than wait for infrastructures to breakdown to see or understand them, we can look down at our feet to the manholes that expose the underwater sea cables that deliver the world's internet [69,90], and back to the forgotten stories of companies that have failed [24] or to outmoded forms of technology production [47,79,81,85]. By bringing lenses from infrastructure studies together with speculative design practices, we build on Steinhardt and Jackson's call to "more squarely integrate futures-and the work we do to imagine, contest, and produce them-into our studies of sociotechnical systems."…”

Section: Infrastructures Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One way to enact this tactic is to create speculative designs using practices and technologies of the past. Rosner, Shorey, and colleagues facilitate "making core memory" workshops to "re-presence" the gendered labor of weaving core memory, crucial to powering the 1960s Apollo space missions [79,85]. They use this embodied technique to open "an indeterminate past to illuminate the networks of labor called into being by technological artifacts."…”

Section: Design Tactic: Use Past Aesthetics Practices Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Wong

Khovanskaya

Fox

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper introduces "infrastructural speculations," an orientation toward speculative design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design. As modes of speculation are increasingly used to interrogate questions of broad societal concern, it is pertinent to develop an orientation that foregrounds the "lifeworld" of artifacts-the social, perceptual, and political environment in which they exist. While speculative designs often imply a lifeworld, infrastructural speculations place lifeworlds at the center of design concern, calling attention to the cultural, regulatory, environmental, and repair conditions that enable and surround particular future visions. By articulating connections and affinities between speculative design and infrastructure studies research, we contribute a set of design tactics for producing infrastructural speculations. These tactics help design researchers interrogate the complex and ongoing entanglements among technologies, institutions, practices, and systems of power when gauging the stakes of alternate lifeworlds.

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Section: Infrastructures Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Design Tactic: Use Past Aesthetics Practices Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Wong

Khovanskaya

Fox

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Artists/designers/technologies have been creating woven smart textiles over the past few decades. Perhaps the earliest example of smart textiles weaving, as we conceptualize it here, occurred in the 1960's when women hand-wove the rope core memory units during the Apollo missions [16]. More recently, in 1997, Rehmi Post and Maggie Orth described smart fabrics emerging from existing practices of weaving with metallic fibers and demonstrate several versions of woven circuits [14].…”

Section: Weaving Smart Textilesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting Double Weaving and Yarn Plying Techniques for Smart Textiles Applications

Devendorf

Lauro

2019

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Smart textiles integrate sensing and actuation components into their structures to bring interactivity to fabrics. We describe how we adapted two existing fiber arts techniques, double weaving and yarn plying, for the purpose of creating a woven textile that changes color in response to touch. We draw from this experience to make three core contributions: descriptions of our experiments plying yarns that change between three color states; descriptions of double weaving structures that allow us to support interactivity while hiding circuitry from view; and suggestions for how these techniques could be adapted and extended by other researchers to make richly crafted and technologically sophisticated fabrics.

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“…Other work pushes back on the idea that people with disabilities must be brought into making, arguing that researchers have neglected the sophisticated design practices in which individuals are already engaging [8]. A similar pattern has emerged with gender, where researchers are studying how makerspaces can be more inviting to women on the one hand [12,23], but also noting that women's engineering innovations have been cast as crafts and left out of dominant histories of technical innovation [48]. In centering older adults in this paper, we fnd a similar need for a nuanced consideration of what inclusion means for this population.…”

Section: Makerspacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying the Formation of an Older Adult-Led Makerspace

Lazar

Pradhan

Jelen

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Makerspaces are being introduced in a wide variety of settings, including community settings such as schools and libraries. Older adults are one group for whom making agendas are being pursued, with envisioned outcomes such as supporting agency and well-being. However, research on making and DIY with older adults typically study individuals who are already engaged in making practices or bring individuals in to a technology environment that has already been created. In this paper, we study the older adult-driven formation of a makerspace in an independent living community. Through an ethnographically-informed approach, we studied the ways that individuals considered appropriate allocation of resources towards a makerspace, scoped activities, evaluated goals, and made trade-ofs. Our analysis is centered around describing the way that this makerspace formed as well as three ways that individuals made sense of the makerspace as the planning unfolded: the openness of a space that promises to cater to interests of the population; the promise of a makerspace to involve more residents in technology, but the need to obscure the technology to make it appealing; and a valuation of the return on investment for limited fnancial and space resources. Our discussion contributes to supporting and studying early adoption of technology by older adults, complicates visions of "making for all, " and presents considerations regarding the often under-specifed community of a makerspace.

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Making Core Memory

Cited by 75 publications

References 39 publications

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Adapting Double Weaving and Yarn Plying Techniques for Smart Textiles Applications

Studying the Formation of an Older Adult-Led Makerspace

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