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3 Day Workshop

The focus period will center on the 3 Day workshop, May 26th to May 28th, with an exciting program of events.

These workshops are in-person and invitation-only, except for the daily seminars which will be open to all & hybrid.

Workshop Programme

Monday 26th May

9:00 - 9:30 - welcome and introductions

9:30-10:30 - Constructing our feminist utopias (facilitated by Madeline Balaam and Pınar Apaydın)

10:30 - 11:15 - Fika (coffee / tea and snacks)

11:15 - 12:15 - Continuing and sharing our feminist utopias

12:30 - 14:00 - lunch (Taste KTH)

14:00 - 15:00 - Keynote 1: AymurAI project: feminist AI in Latin America (Ivana Feldfeber) 

15:15 - 16:15 - a panel on Critical feminist perspectives on AI (Mai Ciolfi Felice (facilitator), Aman Khullar, Camille Harris, Sarah Fox, Derya Akbaba)

16:15 - 18:00 - fika and mingling

18 - 21 - Intimate Data Party at the DF Hub, with dinner and drinks

Tuesday 27th May

9 - 10:30 - a panel on Creative, DIY, and Open Source perspectives within FemTech and Feminist Tech (Nadia Campo Woytuk (facilitator), Betsy Pleasants, Gi Tomasello, Marie Kochsiek, Asra Sakeen Wani)

10:30 - 11:00 - Fika (coffee / tea and snacks)

11:00 - 12:30 - Multiple parallel workshops:

  • Researcher care & ethical and methodological issues in studying intimate technology or technologies in intimate settings (Anupriya Tuli and Cristina Bosco) 

  • Speculative prototyping DIY intimate and reproductive technologies (Nadia Campo Woytuk / Gi Tomasello) in Middla

  • Wiki editing workshop: Adding feminist/m into AI (Derya Akbaba)

  • Hidden Geographies of Artificial Intelligence (Diana Mosquera)

12:30 - 14:00 - lunch (Taste KTH)

14:00 - 15:00 - Keynote 2: Participation, Trauma, and Privacy in Studying Digital Safety (Emily Tseng) 

15:15 - 16:30 - panel on Security, privacy and online information related to femtech and reproductive health (Alejandra Gomez Ortega (facilitator), Nicolas Harrand, Coye Chesire, Ariana Bennett, Maryam Mehrnezhad - line-up and format to be confirmed)

16:00 - 16:30 - Fika (coffee / tea and snacks)

17:00 - 18:30 Reception at Stockholm City Hall hosted by the City of Stockholm

Wednesday 28th May

8:45 - 9:00 - InspireLab sponsored breakfast @ Digital Futures Hub

9:00 - 10:30 - Panel on How to set and fund a feminist research agenda around digitalisation (Pushpendra Singh, Pia Höök, Madeline Balaam, Amir H Payberah, moderator: Airi Lampinen)

10:30 - 11:00 - Fika (coffee / tea and snacks)

11:00 - 12:30 - Multiple parallel workshops

  • Consent and abusive uses of (intimate) technology (Joo Young & Seora Park & Haesoo Park)

  • Workshop on sketching for processing difficult data (highly affective or stigmatized), presenting different sketching tools from paper and pen to digital whiteboarding tools (Adrian Petterson & Benedetta Lusi)

  • Developing AI and data analysis with a feminist perspective / Building feminist AI from the Global South (Diana Mosquera)

  • The Scariest Word of All: Woman (Cristina Bosco)

  • Examining security and privacy in menopause technologies with creative methods (Rebecca Jones)

12:30 - 14:00 - lunch (Taste KTH)

14:00 - 15:00 - Keynote 3. Post-growth and Feminist Tech (Neha Kumar) 

15:15 - 16:45 - Wrap-up activity and Closing

17:30 - Dinner at Ulla Winbladh