By David Søbæk Olsen Six months before the publication of this blog post, I began my time as a Junior Researcher (JR) with the question “What interests me?”. I had recently completed a Bachelor thesis which focused on the use of digital methods in valuing cultural...
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Tarot and Intentions
As some lab members find care, tough love, and guidance in the practise of tarot reading, we thought it could be a fun experiment to try out a tarot session a Lab community. We wanted to use the icons, stories and guiding words as inspirations and ways of...
Why Our Website Will Not Always be Accessible…
By Luis Landa & Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding In the new year, our website will be traveling to a different server. A server running on solar power, where we do not yet know its capacities. Our availability online might change, but we also want it to. ...
Digital detox and self-care: Individualised responsibility as an answer to a structural dilemma?
By Jasmin Shokoui, Lab Intern. It is a rainy Wednesday evening. I am waiting in Studenterhuset, a cosy student café in the old town of Copenhagen. The organisers rented out a spacious, white room upstairs of the afternoon trouble in the café. Lo-fi music is...
Facilitating Digital Self-Care How?
By Casper Frohn, Lab TA In the autumn of 2021, ETHOS Lab hosted two workshops under the title “Digital Self-Care” carried out by Post.doc Michael Hockenhull, Lab Manager Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding, and Lab TA Casper Frohn. In this blogpost, Casper invites you...
The Limits of Conducting Ethnographical Research
Written by: Jasmin Katharina Shokoui Lessons learned about accepting limits and questioning our research interests Digital technologies surround us constantly. The smartwatch on our wrist tells us that our heart rate is just a little faster than usual...
Finding Direction: Scoping a Project with Many Possible Routes
By Rikke Haslund Jønsson, Junior Researcher My research process in ETHOS Lab started with the desire to find a way to organize and optimize individual learning for myself and other students as a reaction to the focus on group lectures and group work. I found...
Where is “Ethos” in AI Ethics?
By Georgios Natsios, Junior Researcher How can one of the most overwhelming powers of Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, be combined with philosophy, ethics, and anthropology? How can AI be ethical with a minimum bias to society, humanity, and nature? Can...
The Adventures of DIY Sustainable Computing
By Luis Landa Nearly a year ago, I embarked on a journey to build, document, and deploy a solar powered website and server. This idea was born out of a desire to explore the intersection between ecology and technology to engage with sustainable computing and low-tech...
Upon Returning: Thinking Transitioning Through the Lens of Transformation
By Merethe Riggelsen Gjørding, Lab Manager Come the new semester, we as employees at ITU are expected to be returning to our offices after spending close to 1,5 years working from home, or at least under different restrictions of access to our workplace. During...