About Us
ETHOS Lab is a place of collaboration, a network of researchers at ITU and beyond, of students, and occasionally artists, organizations, etc.About the Lab
ETHOS Lab is a critical feminist methods laboratory dedicated to experimentation at the intersection of digital methods, ethnographic inquiry, and speculative fabulation. We take seriously the Harawayian notion that methods make worlds and so consider reflection and creativity with methods an essential part of our work as investigators of technological worlds and the ways we hope to reshape them through our research practice.
The ETHOS Lab draws upon an interdisciplinary cross-pollination of the fields of STS, Anthropology, and Human Computer Interaction. Overall, we are committed to situated analytics. This means that we aim to inductively understand the ways that technologies are epistemologically and materially located within practices and lifeworlds. It is not only data-centric and computational methods, but also ethnographic methods, that are on the move, traveling, shifting, and imploding relations both within and beyond academic research. We aim to understand how digital and computational methods migrate into humanistic and organizational understandings of social relations. And we experiment with how technologies can extend our modes of inquiry by engaging critically with their worldmaking capacities.
The lab consists of a physical space, in room 3A30, which offers us a hub for community gathering and creating events that interrupt the dominant tropes of the “Tech University” by conjuring “other-worldliness” in our relations to technology. We work with methods from experimental writing to role play to game design to discover ways to come together in vulnerability and play.
As a feminist lab we are committed to holding open space for discussion of our own working conditions and the maintenance of our selves within and beyond productivity at work. We meet weekly to discuss what is on our desks and minds, convene quarterly for pitch and play meet-ups, and, through our open hours, are available throughout the academic year to spar about potential new projects and collaborations.
Contact Us
Location
Room 3A30 at IT University of Copenhagen.
Opening hours
Thursdays: 11:00-14:00
Lab Staff
The Lab Staff are the main drivers of activities in the lab. They maintain and support student projects, infrastructure, the physical Lab space, the Lab’s researchers and provide community care.
Marisa Cohn
Head of Lab
Henriette Friis
Lab Manager
Luis Alfredo Landa Mariaca
Lab Assistant Technologist
Researchers
Baki Cakici
Associate Professor
Vasiliki Tsaknaki
Associate Professor
Michael Hockenhull
Assistant Professor
Luna Rasmussen
PhD Fellow
Vivian Wei Guo
PhD Fellow
Katrine Meldgaard Kjær
Associate Professor
Rachel Douglas-Jones
Associate Professor, Co-head of Lab (2016-22)
Sunniva Sandbukt
Assistant Professor
Barbara Nino Carreras
PhD Fellow
Louie Meyer
PhD Fellow
Pedro Ferreira
Associate Professor
Jessamy Perriam
Associate Professor, Co-head of Lab (2022-23)
Alena Thiel
Post Doc
Lara Reime
PhD Fellow
Network
ETHOS Lab’s community is far-reaching and entangled with several other communities both in Copenhagen and internationally. We love to stay in touch with the people who have shared the lab with us through the years. Here are a few of these people.
Marie Blønd
Lab Manager
Edith Terte Andersen
Lab Teaching Assistant
Luuk Blum
Lab Assistant
Benedict Lang
Visiting student from MCTS, TU Munich
Brit Ross Winthereik
Lab Member
Simy Kaur Ganoonia
Lab Manager
Veronika Skotting
Lab Teaching Assistant
Jasmin Katharina Shokoui
Visiting student from MCTS, TU Munich
Mace Ojala
Research Assistant Technician
Casper Blum Frohn
Lab Teaching Assistant
Cæcilie Sloth Laursen
Lab Assistant
Line Henriksen
Postdoc
Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding
Lab Manager
Adam Veng
Researcher