Dear All,

We are happy to announce the third seminar as part of our new Critical Computing seminar series this Fall. As you all know, it is a monthly online seminar where each month we read a new book and discuss that with the author(s) on the first Friday of the next month. The objective of the seminar is to create a broader understanding of computing from different ethical, social, and cultural perspectives. You will find more information about this seminar series and upcoming speakers by following this link https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/index.html. You can also subscribe to our mailing list https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/criticalcomputing-thirdspace to receive regular updates about the future speakers of this seminar.

This month (November), we are reading the book, "Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/critical-fabulations" by Daniela K. Rosner https://www.hcde.washington.edu/rosner, and we will discuss the book with her on* Friday, Dec 4, 2-3:30 PM EST *over a Zoom meeting. We invite you all to join the seminar. Please check this link https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/Daniela%20Rosner.html to find more details about the seminar and register for the seminar here http://www.bit.ly/CCS03. A flyer is also attached to this email and I have appended the seminar details at the bottom of this email.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to *anyone* *interested* (*within and outside UofT*). If you have access to the UofT online library, you will be able to download and read this book for free at this link https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/book/8555178.

We look forward to seeing you all at the seminar!

Best Regards, Ishtiaque Ahmed and Robert Soden Critical Computing Seminar Team https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/people.html

=========== Seminar Details: ===========

DISCUSSION WITH DANIELA K. ROSNER BOOK: CRITICAL FABULATIONS: REWORKING THE METHODS AND MARGINS OF DESIGN

4 DECEMBER, 2020 AT 2-3.30 PM, EST

The registration link: here http://www.bit.ly/CCS03 Find the e-book link: here https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/book/8555178

Daniela K. Rosner, Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

Bio: Daniela Rosner is an Associate Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington. Her research investigates the social, political, and material circumstances of technology development, with an emphasis on foregrounding marginalized histories of practice, from maintenance to needlecraft. Rosner's work has been supported by multiple awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation, including an NSF CAREER award. She is the author of several articles on craft and technoculture, including “Legacies of craft and the centrality of failure in a mother-operated hackerspace,” Journal of New Media & Society, 2016 and “Binding and Aging,” Journal of Material Culture, 2012. In her book, Critical Fabulations, she investigates new ways of thinking about design’s past to rework future relationships between technology and social responsibility (MIT Press, 2018). Rosner earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. Rosner serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of Interactions magazine, a bimonthly publication of ACM SIGCHI.

*Book Abstract*: In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible. Challenging the field's dominant paradigms and reinterpreting its history, Rosner wants to change the way we historicize the practice, reworking it from the inside. Focusing on the development of computational systems, she takes on powerful narratives of innovation and technology shaped by the professional expertise that has become integral to the field's mounting status within the new industrial economy. To do so, she intervenes in legacies of design, expanding what is considered “design” to include long-silenced narratives of practice, and enhancing existing design methodologies based on these rediscovered inheritances. Drawing on discourses of feminist technoscience, she examines craftwork's contributions to computing innovation—how craftwork becomes hardware manufacturing, and how hardware manufacturing becomes craftwork. She reclaims, for example, NASA's “Little Old Ladies,” the women who built information storage for the Apollo missions by weaving wires through magnetized metal rings. Mixing history, theory, personal experience, and case studies, Rosner reweaves fibers of technoscience by slowly reworking the methods and margins of design. She suggests critical fabulations as ways of telling stories that awaken alternative histories, and offers a set of techniques and orientations for fabulating its future. Critical Fabulations shows how design's hidden inheritances open different possibilities for practice. Best Regards, Ishtiaque Ahmed and Robert Soden Critical Computing Seminar Team https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/critical-computing-seminar/people.html

Best Regards, Ishtiaque

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute https://www.torontosri.ca/ University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FToronto