The second civic engagement workshop of DCitizens brought together a diverse group of participants from academia, the public and 3rd sector, and industry to discuss the needs and opportunities in Civic and Inclusive Education. The workshop targeted institutions and people who work/live in the periphery of the City of Lisbon and featured round-table discussions to…
Speaker Anna Carter is an Innovation Fellow at Northumbria University she has extensive experience in designing technologies for local council regeneration programs, her work focuses on creating accessible digital experiences in a variety of contexts using human-centred methods and participatory design. She works on building Digital Civics research capacities of early career researchers as part of…
Speaker Clara Kliman-Silver is a Staff UX Researcher at Google, where she leads a research team focused on design tools, designer-developer collaboration, and the emergent role of artificial intelligence in the design process. Her research interests lie in computer-supported cooperative work, the role of AI in productivity tools, and enterprise technologies. Before Google, she worked as…
The DCitizens team will be getting together in Siegen for a Knowledge Exchange Event from the 19th to 20th of June 2024. The event will include seminar talks and group discussions. Wednesday 19th June Morning (10am – 12pm CET): Wednesday 19th June Afternoon (3PM – 4.30PM, CET): Seminar Talks: Pedro Ferreira Posthumanist Care and Ecologies…
Putting people at the heart of new developments in artificial intelligence and digital technology will be the focus of a Digital Civics Exchange taking place at Northumbria University from the 20th-30th of May. Digital Civics research seeks to explore the ways in which citizens and communities can be empowered in decision making processes and service provision – on…
The DCitizens project has participated in Instituto Superior Técnico’s Open Day, reaching 2000+ visitors on April 19th. The DCitizens team have joined the Interactive Technologies Institute’s stand sharing the project’s developments alongside European projects such as LoGaCulture and Bauhaus of the Sea Sails, also coordinated by the Interactive Technologies Institute. The project was represented by…
Speaker Débora is an activist, social designer, and Amazonian Decolonial thinker. She is currently a research associate at University of Siegen, where her research is about how communities experience and deal with economic and technological pressures in areas of post-conflict and social instability. Her PhD dissertation explored how peripheral communities in the Amazon rainforest make use…
Tiffany Knearem is a UXR at Google on the Material Design team. She is interested in AI applications for design tooling to support product designer-developer collaboration and unlock creativity. For her PhD her primary research focus was on understanding and enabling community innovation through information and communication technologies, with a dissertation focus on community-based care during…
Speaker Denise Lengyel is an Innovation Fellow at the Centre for Digital Citizens within Open Lab, exploring the ‘Ageless’ citizen. My work is centered around the exploration of arts-based and creative research methods including text-, image- and perfomance-based methods such as (visual) storytelling, drawing and dance. My interest is in arts as an embodied way of…
Putting people at the heart of new developments in artificial intelligence and digital technology will be the focus of a Digital Civics Exchange taking place at Northumbria University from the 20th-30th of May. Digital Civics research seeks to explore the ways in which citizens and communities can be empowered in decision making processes and service…