Mandatory readings (pensum)

List with secondary readings can be found in separate file!

Mandatory reading (read BEFORE you come to the meeting)

March 1: Course Compass
1. Raworth, Kate (2017). A Doughnut for the Anthropocene: Humanity’s compass in the 21st century. The Lancet Planetary Health, 1(2), e48–e49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30028-1

March 3: Understanding technology
2. Franklin, Ursala (1990). The Real World of Technology (Chapter 1, revised edition). Toronto: Anansi [26 pages – pdf will be made available].

March 7: Critical, feminist, and post-colonial theories of technology
3. Ansari, Ahmad (2019). Decolonizing design through the perspectives of cosmological others: Arguing for an ontological turn in design research and practice. In XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students 26(2): 16-19.

March 8: Design Justice
4. Constanza-Chock, Sasha (2018). Design Justice: towards an intersectional feminist framework for design theory and practice. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society [14 pp].

March 10: Sustainable AI
5. D’Ignazio, Cathrine and Lauren Klein (2020). Data Feminism. Cambridge: The MIT Press (Introduction: Why Data Science Needs Feminism (20 pp). Available online at https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/frfa9szd/release/6

March 15: AI Futures II
6. Floridi, L., Cowls, J., Beltrametti, M. et al. AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations. Minds & Machines 28, 689–707 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-018-9482-5

March 17: The dark side of digitalisation
7. Trittin-Ulbrich, Hannah, Scherer, A. G., Munro, I., & Whelan, G. (2021). Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Toward a critical agenda. Organization, 28(1), 8–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420968184

21 March: Technofixes
8. Boehnert, Joanne (2018). Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene. London: Bloomsbury (Chapter 14. The technofix, 10 pp). [pdf will be made available]

22 March: Regenerative Sustainability I
9. Lenz, Sara (2021). Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses. In Social Science Information, 60(2): 188-208. Online: https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184211012179

24 March: Regenerative Sustainability II
10. Gibbons, L. V. (2020). Regenerative—The New Sustainable? Sustainability, 12(13), 5483. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12135483