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Upon Not Opening the Black Box: Beyond Data Use and Non-Use Blogpost by Simy Kaur Gahoonia On May 24 2018, the eve of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect, ETHOS Lab marked the occasion with an interactive installation called Compliance....
YEAR 2020: LETTER FROM HEADS OF ETHOS LAB “What is not dead may eternal lie, with strange æons even death may die” (Necronomicon) Our ETHOSLab theme of 2019 was Decelerate. Looking back over a calendar full of wonderful events, one might question whether...
Training for precarity Blogpost by Lotte Schack, Anthropologist and intern in ETHOS Lab >>> For a few months, unemployed university graduates have been subject to heated debate (Berlingske 2019, Politiken 2019), which coincidentally started around the time I...
Constructing Inclusion Within the New Copenhagen Metro Line Written by Viktoriya Feshak, Junior Researcher and ETHOS Lab intern >>> Almost three months ago, when I came to Copenhagen for my internship at the ETHOS Lab, a long-awaited city phenomenon was...
A workshop on methods and approaches for studying algorithmic systems Written by Simy Kaur Gahonia On October 31 and November 1, I participated in a workshop on methods and approaches for social science studies of algorithms. The workshop was the second in a series of...
Written by Rachel Douglas-Jones, co-Head of ETHOS Lab, IT University of Copenhagen 2018 was a big year in international awareness of the climate emergency. Inspired by the Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg’s lone campaign which started in August, children across the...
STS Podcasts Playlist Blogpost and artwork by Viktoriya Feshak Today, many STS scholars challenge current methods of storytelling practices and knowledge dissemination in general for being limited in describing things that are complex, messy, diffuse, vague or...
GDPR in ETHOS Lab: On compliance, deletion and implementation By Simy Kaur Gahoonia Like so many others, ETHOS Lab has concerned it self a lot with the General Data Protection Regulation. We have been concerned with GDPR at least since 2017, well before it came into...
May 2019: A rotation is happening in the ETHOS Lab. Marie Blønd is returning to her role as manager, meanwhile having become an activist celebrity. We are marking the event with an interview on all sorts of matters. How would you describe the role as a Lab...
By Cæcilie S. Laursen This piece relates to (re)representation of research, storytelling, and reflection on method. Background In the spring semester of 2018, I did my Master’s thesis on an object which most people did not know existed. Even now, I am in...