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Criticality, design, children, & IS: Building Bridges - Guest Netta Iivari

November 08, 2021 • Season 2 • Episode 2

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Netta Iivari. Netta is a Professor in Information Systems and research unit leader of INTERACT research unit in University of Oulu. She has background in Cultural Anthropology as well as in Information Systems and Human Computer Interaction. Her long lasting research interest concerns understanding and strengthening people's participation in shaping and making their digital futures. Recently, her research has particularly addressed empowerment of children through critical design and critical Making. Her research is strongly influenced by interpretive and critical research traditions. She has a specific interest in the development and utilization of culture and discourse oriented lenses as well as in the examination and support of transdisciplinary research and design. She regularly publishes in premier Human Computer Interaction and Information Systems journals and conferences.

In this episode, we continue our design theme episodes by discussing human-computer interaction and criticality to facilitate a flip of oppression towards the empowerment of children to have a voice in their digital future; children should be a part of the design process! We also consider some practical aspects of working with children.

References:
Boal, A. 2000. Theater of the Oppressed. Pluto press.

Dunne, A. (2006). Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design. Cambridge, MIT Press.

Dunne, A. & Raby, F. (2001). Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects. Basel, Birkhäuser.

Iivari, N., Sharma, S., Ventä-Olkkonen, L., Molin-Juustila, T., Kuutti, K., Holappa, J., & Kinnunen, E. (2021). Critical agenda driving child–computer interaction research—Taking a stock of the past and envisioning the future. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 100408.

Gunn, W., Otto, T., & Smith, R. C. (Eds.). (2013). Design anthropology: theory and practice. Taylor & Francis.

Pink, S. (2014). Digital–visual–sensory-design anthropology: Ethnography, imagination and intervention. Arts and Humanities in Higher education, 13(4), 412-427.

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