Gabriele Ferri

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Assistant professor, TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I work at the intersection of design, ethics, and community justice to co-design sustainable futures. I'm inspired by Design Justice, and I draw on Ethnography, Interaction Criticism, Speculative Fabulation, Critical Design, and Humanistic HCI. Based in Amsterdam.
Homepagehttps://www.gabrieleferri.com/
Google scholarhttp://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=Q1gL8MwAAAAJ&pagesize=100&view_op=list_works
Institutional homehttps://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/gabriele-ferri
Gabriele FerriApr 1, 2024
Inte GloerichFeb 27, 2024

Our Special Issue on 'The City as a License: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society' for Big Data & Society is out! (w/ Martijn de Waal, @gabferri, John Vines, @chriselsden).

The SI features critical examinations of citizenship and rights in blockchain-based Smart Cities, (algorithmic) governance, and the right to the city.

Contributors include: Shenja Van Der Graaf, Mehdi Montakhabi, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis, Jillian Crandall, & Silvia Semenzin.

https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241227902

Gabriele FerriJan 10, 2024
J. Nathan Matias 🦣Jan 9, 2024

Welcome to the fediverse @lynndombrowski !

To everyone else, Lynn does very cool work on technologies for social justice across a wide range of contexts, from domestic violence survivors to food production to minecraft.

Lynn has contributed substantial scholarship and thinking about how computing & data can be used by people with relatively low power in their communities. Welcome!

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZCNrpS8AAAAJ&hl=en

Lynn Dombrowski

Associate Professor and HCI Graduate Program Director, IU-Indy - Cited by 2.235 - Human computer interaction - interaction design - participatory design - social justice - social issues

Gabriele FerriJul 27, 2023
Inte GloerichJul 27, 2023
Together with the Care Ecologies research network at ARIAS, I co-wrote an article about our thinking and practicing Towards Becoming an Ecology of Care for Performance Research journal. Thanks to the amazing skills of some of my co-authors, the publication features beautiful illustrations as well! Read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2022.2198879 (go to the pdf for the illustrated version!) #performanceresearch #artisticresearch #care
Show threadGabriele FerriJul 27, 2023
The ideal candidate's background is in design, with previous experience in community-centered projects, awareness of research methods from the humanities / social sciences, and a passion for the politics and ethics of design. Alternatively, candidates with a background in social sciences/humanities and proven experience in design are also suitable. Being able to conduct fieldwork in communities' native languages (Dutch or others, depending on the context) is a definite plus.
Show threadGabriele FerriJul 27, 2023
You will investigate community-led design processes and how to support them, their key characteristics, and how they contrast with extractive design practices. You will actively contribute to real-world community projects, engage with stakeholders, and disseminate your insights through academic publications. This is a chance to support social change through ethical design!
Show threadGabriele FerriJul 27, 2023
In this role, you will choose a community-led initiative to address. Possible examples include, but are not limited to, informal repair practices (e.g., repair cafés) or experiments with algorithmic governance of common resources (e.g., circular & energy communities). Your mission will be to explore new ways for designers to facilitate bottom-up social change, and the objective is to create design processes that give ownership and control to the communities we work with.
Gabriele FerriJul 27, 2023
I'm recruiting a PhD student (4 years) at TU Eindhoven for an exciting position focusing on Community-Led Societal Transformations through the lens of design justice. Deadline 15/9.
See https://jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/phd-communityled-societal-transformations-towards-a-design-justice-methodology-1015538.html for more details. DEADLINE 15 SEPTEMBER 2023.
PhD Community-Led Societal Transformations: Towards a Design Justice Methodology

Are you interested in social innovation and transformation through community-led design processes? Are you optimistic about design’s potential to bring about societal change, particularly in underserved communities?

Gabriele FerriJul 22, 2023
Inte GloerichJul 22, 2023
Hi! I’m restarting a new account after my previous server went down… I’m a #phd student working on #blockchain #imaginaries. E.g. I have looked at crypto memes to study the story they tell about living in contemporary precarity, I dove into the mysticism that saturates the blockchain scene to understand more about their ideas on (universal) Truth, and I explored communities that use DAO’s to prefigure fundamentally different worlds. #mediastudies
Show threadGabriele FerriJul 21, 2023

@integloerich

FYI
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@emilymbender
@mmitchell_ai
Angelina McMillan-Major
Just published: "Risk and Harm: Unpacking Ideologies in the AI Discourse"
https://doi.org/10.1145/3571884.3603751

We are concerned about problematic ethical views connected with longtermism entering the mainstream by means of public campaigns such as FLI's, and we offer analytical lenses (Existential Risk vs Ongoing Harm) for assessing them.
https://www.gabrieleferri.com/file/Ferri_Gloerich_CUI_preprint.pdf

Risk and Harm | Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

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Gabriele FerriJul 21, 2023
Just published: "Risk and Harm: Unpacking Ideologies in the AI Discourse" by @gabferri @integloerich
https://doi.org/10.1145/3571884.3603751
We analyze the rhetorics in the "Pause AI" letter by the Future of Life Institute (FLI) and the response by the Distributed AI Research (DAIR) institute. We spell out ideological differences between DAIR and FLI. We are concerned about views connected with longtermism entering the mainstream through campaigns like FLI's, and we offer analytical lenses for assessing them.
Risk and Harm | Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces

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