Over the last months, I have been working and prototyping a piece of software that would take text as an input and have an embroidery pattern as its output. The main motivation came from a combination of a long lived desire to activate the machines we have at the lab...
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.
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,...
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...
ETHOS Lab is seeking an enthusiastic and organised Workshop Coordinator to lead the planning and execution of our Feminist Technoscience in Practice (FTSiP) workshop series this spring. This series bridges technical skills with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and...
February 2024 Our theme for 2024 aims to open up space for reflection on the incongruity we experience between the familiar zones of everyday academic life and the scale of unfolding global events. In struggling to reconcile the day-to-day of teaching, institutional...
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...
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,...
As we alluded to in our final ETHOS Lab newsletter of 2022, we left the year on a strange tone; a hopeful tone but a strange tone nevertheless. At the beginning of 2022 we were emerging from two years of on-again, off-again pandemic lockdowns and it set the scene for...
ETHOS Lab happily welcomes Lara Reime, who is a PhD Fellow in the Technologies in Practice research group. During her time at TiP Lara’s work has already intersected with the lab multiple times, and we are thrilled that she will now officially join us. Her...