Girls Sc(AI)ence 2: Pushing boundaries of research design: Future Making through (re)mixing creative methods

An online lecture and on-site seminar in the serie Girls Just Want To Have Sc(AI)ence.

Topic: Pushing boundaries of research design: Future Making through (re)mixing creative methods

When & where:  8 May 2025

• 10.00 to 10.45: Hybrid lecture on zoom
• 10.00 to 12.30 On-site lecture plus workshop in [TBD], Lund, Sweden

Invited speaker: Annette Markham, Chair Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement in the department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, Netherland

Read more about the  workshop series "Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence” at ai.lu.se

Programme 8 May

10.00 - 10.45: Keynote by Annette Markham Pushing boundaries of research design: Future Making through (re)mixing creative methods

Abstract: How can we create methodological mindsets and sensibilities that give rise to alternate futures? How can critical perspectives, reflexivity, creativity, and data science co-mingle? In this talk and workshop, Professor Markham focuses on how to dismantle and then reconfigure disciplinary traditions for research design. The mindset of remix is one way to consider how methods are not just tools, but make worlds. This talk encourages researchers to reflect on how all scientific practices embody fundamentally playful, inventive, and generative forms of interrogation and embracing less restrictive frameworks for engagement and analysis can form novel pathways through wicked polycrisis. To build the case for pushing boundaries, Markham draws on her work conducting algorithmic literacy through arts-based community engagement as well as her work conducting close level sociological analysis of human-AI interactions.

About Annette Markham: AM is currently the Chair Professor of Media Literacies and Public Engagement in the department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She has been working extensively at the crossroads between art, digitalisation, methods and ethics. She researches the lived experience of datafication and digitalization, through the lens of guided digital autoethnography, critical pedagogy, arts-based interventions, citizen social science, digital and data literacy through critical pedagogy, and digital ethnography.

10.45: Coffee break

11.00 Workshop session

Registration

To participate is free of charge. Registration for online lecture or for both lecture and workshop on-site in Lund at ai.lu.se.

About the workshop series

While feminist approaches to technoscience are getting increasing attention, fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Interaction and Human-Computer Interaction are still male-dominated. Similarly, new technologies, from assistive robots to chatbots, are often imbued with the same intrinsic gender and ethnic stereotypes and biases present in our Western society. An increasing number of scholars have thus called for a feminist reboot, praising more ethical, sustainable and inclusive research practices and epistemologies in the hope of better technology. Our workshop series "Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence" aims to foster knowledge and discussions on critical and feminist approaches to technology by engaging scholars working with AI from a variety of disciplines -from data science to art, political studies and philosophy, and invite them to reflect and imagine together how to use tools and theories from critical and feminist studies to implement more thcial, sustainable and inclusive technology-related practices and research.
More info can be found here: https://www.ai.lu.se/GIRLSCAIENCE 

This event is sponsored by WASP HS and Lund university profile area Natural and Artificial Cognition