Hackathons as Participatory Design: Iterating Feminist Utopias
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Hackathons_as_Participatory_Design__Iterating_Feminist_Utopias_Hopeetal.pdf
Description
Hackathons as Participatory Design
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1.41 MB
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Author(s)
Hope, Alexis
D'Ignazio, Catherine
Hoy, Josephine
Michelson, Rebecca
Roberts, Jennifer
Krontiris, Kate
Zuckerman, Ethan
Date Issued
May 2, 2019
Publisher
CHI proceedings
Abstract
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 solv-ing. 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.
Subjects
Hackathons; Maternal Health; Breastfeeding; Participatory Design; feminist HCI; intersectional HCI; Equity
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Civic Media
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