Thinking with Owls
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Thinking with Owls
In February 2023, faculty, students, and administration from the University of Waterloo (UW) and Arizona State University (ASU) collaborated with conservationists from Wild at Heart in Arizona to think through the challenges of rehoming burrowing owls at ASU. Through meetings with critical stakeholders, workshops on unmapping and value sensitive design, and burrowing owl habitat site…
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Technocriticality
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Event Recap: Discriminating Data: A Conversation with Wendy Chun
By Arya Dixit, Research Assistant + Systems Design Engineering Student, Critical Media Lab As an engineering student, I am continuously immersed in the world of technology, learning about its capabilities and ways to manipulate it to solve problems. However, after watching Wendy Chun’s Critical Tech Talk, I found myself questioning the limitations of this approach.…
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Engineering students envision equity and access in Waterloo Park
Leveraging data equity and putting “Tech for Good” into practice By Alexi Orchard, CML PhD Candidate and Lab Manager In recent years, most people in a computing or technology-related profession have likely been exposed to “tech for good,” “responsible innovation,” “computing for social good,” or one of the many other buzzwords and phrases that advocate…
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Event Recap: Artificial Wombs: The Disobedient Future of Birth
BY REBECCA SHERLOCK, PhD STUDENT, CRITICAL MEDIA LAB This semester’s talk was nothing short of honest dialogues, as we explored the topic of reproductive technologies, artificial wombs, and the disobedient future of birth with Dr. Claire Horn, a Killam postdoctoral research fellow at Dalhousie University’s Health Law Institute (keep an eye out for her book…
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Speculative Approaches to Chimney Swift Habitats
During the Fall 2022 term, students from Professor Marcel O’Gorman’s Critical Design Methods class engaged in a value-sensitive design workshop with citizen scientists and Waterloo Region Nature members to create speculative designs of chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica) habitats. Downtown Kitchener, where the Critical Media Lab is located, is home to a small but significant population…
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Call for Research Assistants – Fall 2022
Multiple RA Positions for Fall 2022 with Critical by Design research team The Critical By Design interdisciplinary research group is hiring Research Assistants at the Master’s and PhD levels to join our 5-year project on responsible innovation and Critical Design. **Update 08/22/22: We are also encouraging upper year undergraduate students and international students to apply!…
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CML Food for Thought
Food for Thought episodes will recap details from the latest Critical Tech Talk while our host, Alexi Orchard, and special guests share some delicious snacks. The first episode in this new series Hot Wing Hootenanny debriefs Critical Tech Talk 2: Wendy Chun, which took place on February 10, 2022. Special guests are Jia Rong Wu…
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Heads-Up User Group (HUUG) Research Project
The “HUUGers”, six students from the MA English and undergraduate Systems Design Engineering programs, wore Focals by North smart glasses for three weeks while blogging about their experiences with the glasses. The participants then discussed their experiences with the glasses in a focus group. Abstract Augmented Reality Smart Glasses (ASRG) are a recent development in…