Speaker

In this talk, Catherine Nikolovski, founder and Executive Director of CIVIC, will preview beta designs from the lab, and invite students to imagine themselves in the next phase of work.

Nikolovski will weave her narrative from lived experiences in the Hollywood film industry, political organizing, and describe how her personal inspiration of Bauhaus and Material Ecology have informed her perspective and tell the unexpected origin story of Civic Software Foundation as artistic exploration.

She will position technology as an artefact of collaboration and explain how looking at technology from this new (i.e created) perspective can help us imagine new models for economy and labour. How they can be the drivers for creative and participatory innovation. Shifting from the mindset that data and technology are objective and neutral, this talk will help inspire optimism for the future of civic innovation.

Background

Civic Software Foundation (CSF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2013 with the mission of creating and supporting technology and practices for the next generation of living, collaborative systems.

In 2020, CIVIC convened an international cohort of collaborators and advisors from the Data Feminism community to explore how to move from “theory to practice” with applied models to contextualize and situate the knowledge surrounding datasets.

This approach straddles metaphor with technical processes and combines design, anthropology, and engineering to form multi-disciplinary teams that view data as “material for creating social art”.

These experiments expanded throughout the pandemic as an 18-month long experimental R&D Lab with contributors from across the globe, producing a body of research and technology forming the basis of an emergent field of Context-Aware Systems.

Event hosts

This event is hosted by:

• MA User Experience Design in partnership with MA Interaction Design, MA Data Visualisation at London College of Communication, and
• MA Academic Practice at UAL’s Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange. Find us on Twitter @UALTLE and sign up to our monthly e-newsletter

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