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The experience of caring for and being cared for puts us in touch with parts of existence that are real and genuine — and perhaps the inadequacy of our language for it is itself a political problem, a symptom of how thoroughly care has been organised out of public life and into private silence.
The Lab just published a new zine! Based on a recent workshop around disability and access, it reimagines the game of snakes and ladders as something much more slithering and slippery.
The design of digital technologies increases accessibility for some but impairs it for others, depending on the nature of their disability.
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.
Digital gestures may function as connective fabric within care networks, maintaining relational bonds across distance while remaining embedded within (yet resistive of) larger structures.
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...
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...
By Sara Mezei, Junior Researcher When starting the JR program, my goal was to carry out a project led by my design education toolkit. With my research topic, I aimed to explore how the current right-wing government of Hungary (my birth country) fragments civil...
By Hanna Stokes, Junior Researcher In my last blog post, I wrote about finding, contributing, and being on the Web Revival, a network of personal websites. I also wrote about how the designs of online experiences of Web Revival websites remind me of the...
Still from the Oura Ring ad posted on YouTube By Renia Morfakidou, Junior Researcher I got my first period when I was ten years old, and I didn’t know what a period meant. Now, I am twenty-five. I’ve had approximately 150 periods, all of them, without...