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…
Workshop: “And this is where we fu***d up!” Lessons learned from Participatory Design in Digital Civic Initiatives NordiCHI 2024 We are delighted to be hosting a workshop at NordiCHI – Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Uppsala, Sweden, on October 13, 2024. Participatory design initiatives, especially within the realm of digital civics, are often integrated…
We are delighted to be hosting a workshop at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems in Copenhagen, on the 1st of July 2024. The workshop aims to explore the intersection of community-led ethics, feminist HCI, and digital civics, with a focus on fostering collaborative research practices grounded in ethical principles. Participants will engage in…
The DCitizens SIG aims to navigate ethical dimensions in forthcoming Digital Civics projects, ensuring enduring benefits and community resilience. Additionally, it seeks to shape the future landscape of digital civics for ethical and sustainable interventions. As we dive into these interactive processes, a challenge arises of discerning authentic intentions and validating perspectives. This exploration extends…
We are delighted to be hosting a workshop at the Participatory Design Conference in Malaysia, on the 12th August 2024. Participatory design initiatives, especially within the realm of digital civics, are often integrated and codeveloped with the very citizens and communities they intend to assist. Digital civics research aims to create positive social change using…
DCitizens is returning again with a three-day training event in Lisbon, Portugal, that will explore the strategies and techniques to engage and work with communities to co-create, deploy, and evaluate civic technologies that seek to empower citizens in service provision and civic participation. The Summer School has been designed for students studying, working on research,…
DCitizens is returning with a three-day training event in Lisbon, Portugal, that will explore the strategies and techniques to engage and work with communities to cocreate, deploy, and evaluate civic technologies that seek to empower citizens in service provision and civic participation. The Summer School has been designed for people studying, working on research, or…
???????? Versão em Português DCitizens opened a call for Collaborative projects that should use digital technologies to promote positive social change. DCitizens is funded by the European Commission and promotes Digital Civics research and innovation in Lisbon. Digital Civics posits using technology to empower citizens and non-state actors to co-create, take an active role in…
Speaker Katta Spiel is an Assistant Professor for ‘Critical Access in Embodied Computing’ at TU Wien. They research marginalised perspectives on embodied computing through a lens of Critical Access. Their work informs design and engineering supporting the development of technologies that account for the diverse realities they operate in. In their interdisciplinary collaborations with neurodivergent…