A lot has happened since we released the Building Consentful Tech zine in 2017! The zine, which offers up a framework of what consent looks like in digital spaces, has been cited in numerous publications, used as a resource in community programs and trainings around digital safety, and has inspired a prototype of reversible consent. […]
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Last fall, we worked with Our Data Bodies to design a facilitation guide for people who want to transform their communities through popular education about our digital data. The Digital Defence Playbook gets people to think about ways tech affects their communities rather than trying to teach people the intricacies of how it works. In […]
One of the struggles I’ve encountered in advocating for consentful tech is the lack of real-world case studies I can point to as examples. So it’s been an exciting journey the last couple months to work with the Design Justice Network (DJN) web team on baking consent into the redesign of the DJN website. […]
This summer we worked with Mimi Onuoha and Diana Nucera (a.k.a. Mother Cyborg) to design “A People’s Guide to AI” — a popular education zine about artificial intelligence. For me, just hearing the words “artificial intelligence” was intimidating, as I knew little about the subject. However, when I heard we would be working with Mimi […]
Taking place in Detroit, the Allied Media Conference (AMC) is an annual gathering of probably the most inspiring humans you will get a chance to meet. The conference brings together people who are using media-based strategies in social movement organizing (technology, design, film, art, music, anything you can think of really!) for four days of […]
Photo from a recent Feathers of Hope: Culture Identity and Belonging advisory meeting, where young people worked on co-designing a graphic novel that will educate other children and youth about their rights. Feathers of Hope is one of several community development initiatives of the Ontario Child Advocate. And Also Too is deeply disappointed by the […]
Can I start with a confession? I’m one of those designers who actually thrives when there’s room for a bit of creative chaos. It’ll be no surprise then why working for The Music Gallery is always so exciting to me: as an arts organization showcasing some of the best experimental music out there, they are […]
If you can’t make it to a session we’re presenting at the Allied Media Conference — or if you did make it but we happened to run out of handouts — fear not! Here are the resources and worksheets we’ll be sharing over the weekend: Building Consentful Tech Saturday June 16, 2018 2:00pm – 3:30pm […]
If you follow us on Instagram, you might have caught our #studiocare posts. We’ve been sharing the strategies we’re putting into practice to take better care of ourselves and of each other. Our latest post is about digital safety: In the face of threats to data privacy and online safety, there are steps we can […]
I delivered this brief provocation at Technology and its Discontents: Building Power for a New Paradigm, the launch event for the New School’s Digital Equity Laboratory: The Milano School of Public & Urban Policy is proud to announce the launch of its new trans-disciplinary center, the Digital Equity Laboratory (DEL). To support collaboration and strategic intervention to […]