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2026 Theme: Occulted Bodily Knowing

For this year’s theme we turn towards the occult not as grandiose mysteries to be solved, but as practices of attunement to what has been obscured, hidden within us or secreted away.

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An Update on the Solar Server

It has been quite some time since the last update on the Ethos Lab's experiments with a solar server! Since its presentation in NordiCHI, the server has been through many lives. First as a host for a very unreliable and quick to drain the battery small language model,...
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Doing AI Otherwise – A collaboration with INVI

What if we did AI differently? Join our new workshop series, co-hosted with INVI (Institute for Wicked Problems) and explore how to 'Do AI otherwise' The Institute for Wicked Problems (INVI) and ETHOS Lab are excited to announce a new workshop series that critically...
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Introducing Vasiliki Tsaknaki

ETHOS Lab is very excited to introduce you all to our lovely lab member Vasiliki Tsaknaki. Vasiliki's research is in the HCI domain and combines materials experiences, computational crafts and somatic design methods. Through practice-based studies, she investigates...
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Introducing Alena Thiel

ETHOS Lab happily welcomes lab member Alena Thiel - in fact, we did quite a while ago now. But we would like to introduce you all to her as well. Alena has recently received the Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral fellowship for her project,...
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Blog: Metadata

Metadata is an outlet for Lab life: a collection of our projects, memories, challenges, reflections, and conversations with STS & feminist theory.

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The invisible work of being digital with a disability in Denmark

The design of digital technologies increases accessibility for some but impairs it for others, depending on the nature of their disability.

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Orienting the Research Process through Crip Spacetime

We inhabit crip spacetime collectively in hard moments, but also in the slow, everyday practices of working alongside each other (a.k.a. body doubling), learning together, and sharing resources.

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Exploring the Tensions in Care

Digital gestures may function as connective fabric within care networks, maintaining relational bonds across distance while remaining embedded within (yet resistive of) larger structures.

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Exploring Gendered Emotions in Friends Using Natural Language Processing

By Miranda Speyer-Larsen, Junior Researcher   I started this project wanting to combine two interests of mine: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and emotional stereotypes related to gender. The latter has long been a subject of both curiosity and frustration for...
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The vibe-ification of political campaigning

By Ida Marie Iversen & Jonas Lykou Lund, Junior Researchers   On the 22nd of July 2024, global pop icon Charli XCX tweeted “Kamala IS brat”, a seemingly simple statement that quickly became a momentary defining moment in the 2024 presidential election. At...
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