Paradox of Collaborative Speed
Two events in Melbourne over the past 10 days week revealed a tension across contemporary technology debates: how do we build social/technical alternatives when urgency itself seems to undermine the very deliberation that collaboration requires? Trebor Scholz‘s talk on platform cooperatives (May 16th) and the No Harm Done #2 workshop on risk, technology, and climate […]
Slow Materials, Slow Money: Can Design Decelerate?
Two events that I’m trying to tie together to glean some connections. The CHI panel on Regenerative Material Ecologies in HCI, and the Workshop on the Future of Money and HCI. A connecting theme amongst many, might be how the two sessions tackled the same paradox: how do we slow down in urgent times? Smart, […]