Making within limits

Dew, Kristin; Shorey, Samantha; Rosner, Daniela K.

doi:10.1145/3232617.3232626

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“…Repair and disassembly work has also been shown as a meaningful practice that can improve the shared material understanding of artefacts that can be relevant for design practices [31]. Recent attempts [10,11] to use waste as a material for design have argued that turning waste into design material "exposes form and processes of waste that challenge HCI scholars to highlight the wider infrastructural arrangements on which digital design practices depend" [10]. Rifat et al [32] argued that e-waste recycling practices are not well studied within the HCI and CSCW communities.…”

Section: Repair and Recycling Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, there have been recent calls to bring back to the fore the hacker, repair, recycle and ecological orientation of makerspaces (e.g. [10,11,17,20,35]) in light of their appropriation as spaces for innovation and entrepreneurship in recent years [18]. In many respects, [Anon] was full of such contradictions as well.…”

Section: Platforming As a Practice Of Maker Environmentalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making at the Margins

Vyas

Vines

2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Making at the Margins: Making in a Resource-constrained e-Waste Recycling Centre HCI 1 and CSCW literature has extensively studied a wide variety of maker cultures. In this paper, we focus on understanding what making is like for people and communities who do not have access to advanced technological infrastructures. We report on six-month-long ethnographic fieldwork at a non-profit, resource-constrained, e-waste recycling centre that engages members from a low socioeconomic status (SES) community in making activities. Our findings show that making in such a setting is shaped by local economic and social factors in a resource-constrained environment and highlight how this community engages in a wide range of making activities. In describing these making activities, we emphasize how making was conducted to purposely enable ongoing and future making by others; promoted the wellbeing and skill development of centre members; and was socially-engaged to address concerns in the local community. We conclude by discussing how such type of making contributes a new understanding of maker culture, one that is appreciative of resource-constraints, integrates different sources of value, and is embedded in local place.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing ~ Field Studies • Human-centred computing~ Ethnographic studies

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Section: Repair and Recycling Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Platforming As a Practice Of Maker Environmentalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making at the Margins

Vyas

Vines

2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…The qualities of materials are also a driving force through which aesthetic choices are made, as much as how the aesthetics are produced through the selection of specific material maxima, so as to reflect environmental and cultural values. These choices might include: working with e-waste, [22] working with limited availability of hardware and energy, [74] using small files and low network bandwidths, [63] considering computing devices as heirlooms, using natural materials, repairability or designing with local, regional and subcultural aesthetics and materials in mind. Unlike Simondon's techno-aesthetics, which may eventually iteratively find a pleasing equilibrium between functional technique and aesthetics, permacomputing's techno-aesthetics are much more perilous because a third component is forced in: an informed and contextualised intention to address the social, cultural, environmental and economic externalities of maximalist computer and network technologies.…”

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Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture

Mansoux

Howell²,

Barok

et al.

Ninth Computing Within Limits 2023

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Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of practice centred around design principles that embrace limits and constraints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativity with scarce computational resources. As a result, permacomputing aims to provide a countervoice to digital practices that promote maximisation, hyper-consumption and waste. It seeks to encourage practices as an applied critique of contemporary computer technology that privileges maximalist aesthetics where more pixels, more frame rate, more computation and more power equals more potential at any cost and without any consequences. We believe that such a critical practice can be relevant to artists, designers and cultural practitioners working with computer and network technology who are interested in engaging with environmental issues. This is particularly relevant given the tendency in art, design and cultural production to rely on tools and techniques designed to maximise productivity and mass consumption.In this paper, we argue for the potential of permacomputing as a rich framework for exploring creative design constraints building on a long history of applying constraints in art, design and cultural practices. Because of the need to reconfigure the modes of production and organisation within computational practices, this calls for a different understanding of aesthetics, one that goes beyond the formal evaluation of how things look, but addresses how aesthetics can also be systems of relations, sensing and making sense that are already present in the process of making. We will also discuss the challenges faced by permacomputing practitioners, such as the complicated link with retro-computing, post-digital culture and nostalgia, as well as the problem of constraints in relation to the aesthetisation of poverty, and more generally what it means to work with self-imposed limits in a more privileged socioeconomic context.

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DIY Homes: Placemaking in Rural Eco-Homes

Tao¹,

Vyas²

2021

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

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Making within limits

Cited by 21 publications

References 68 publications

Making at the Margins

Making at the Margins

Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture

DIY Homes: Placemaking in Rural Eco-Homes

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