Hackathons as participatory design: Iterating feminist utopias
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Author(s)
Hope, Alexis
D'Ignazio, Catherine
Hoy, Josephine
Michelson, Rebecca
Roberts, Jennifer
Krontiris, Kate
Zuckerman, Ethan
Alternative Title
Iterating Feminist Utopias
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
ACM Press
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Breastfeeding is not only a public health issue, but also a matter of economic and social justice. This paper presents an iteration of a participatory design process to create spaces for re-imagining products, services, systems, and policies that support breastfeeding in the United States. Our work contributes to a growing literature around making hackathons more inclusive and accessible, designing participatory processes that center marginalized voices, and incorporating systems- and relationship-based approaches to problem solving. By presenting an honest assessment of the successes and shortcomings of the first iteration of a hackathon, we explain how we re-structured the second Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon in service of equity and systems design. Key to our re-imagining of conventional innovation structures is a focus on experience design, where joy and play serve as key strategies to help people and institutions build relationships across lines of difference. We conclude with a discussion of design principles applicable not only to designers of events, but to social movement researchers and HCI scholars trying to address oppression through the design of technologies and socio-technical systems.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300291
