Workshop Schedule, Participants and Outcomes

2nd July 2024, Room 2A20, IT University, Copenhagen

Workshop


Welcome, Introductions and Icebreaker 9.00-9.30


Stage 1: Mapping the Problem Space 9.30 – 10.30

[1 hour – 10 min presentations and activity]   

Michela Musto – Smart Couture: Enhancing Human Capabilities and Promoting Long-lasting, Sustainable Fashion

Violet Owen – Games and IoT Repair.

Susan Lechelt – Understanding retention of disused IoT.

ACTIVITY 1. PROBLEM LANDSCAPE MAPPING: Mapping problems in current IoT design and impacts on users and society. [Led by Teresa and Violet]


[10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break]


Stage 2: Envisioning Future Directions 11.00-12.30

Mike Stead- Designing Sustainable IoT.
Haili Wu – Democratising the Future of Access Based Consumption Through Participatory Design
Sebastian Prost + Henry Collingham – Probing the Internet of (Small) Farm Things

ACTIVITY 2. ENVISIONING FUTURE DIRECTIONS: Reflecting on how to build better IoT futures [Led by Mike S.]


[12.30 – 14.00 : Lunch break]


Stage 3: Identifying Legal Triggers and Roadblocks to Change 14.00-15.00

Lachlan Urquhart – Legal Aspects of IoT Repair
Teresa Castle-Green – Ethnography of repair cafes.
Jia Wang – Reconceptualizing the interface of copyright and design rights for 3D printing.

ACTIVITY 3. LEGAL TRIGGERS + ROADBLOCKS: Discussion and mapping of triggers and roadblocks to better IoT. [Led by Lachlan]


Stage 4: Developing Research Action Plans 15.00 -6.30 [incl coffee break at 15.30-16.00

Albrecht Kurze – Values Canvas for Smart Systems.
Mikolaj Wozniak – Troubleshooting errors in smart homes.
Liza Obermeier and Andre Ebert – Improving IoT battery Technologies

ACTIVITY 4. ACTION PLANS: Formulating Action Plans of research questions, methods and priorities that interface between design research, law, HCI for sustainable IoT. [Led by Susan]


Stage 5: Demonstrating Tools and Demos 16.30-1700

16.30 – 17.00 – Demos [30 mins]

Demos /exhibition of the following artefacts:

Right to Repair Cards
Fixing the Future Game
RepairLand
Fixing the Future Repair Kit
IoT Farm Probes: Soil Story Teller, The Paper Mill, and The Robot Commentator [?]
Fixing the Future Zine
Others

17.00 – Wrap up and Finish


 

WORKSHOP OUTCOMES

Key outcomes from this workshop include:

  • establishing the international network of researchers across legal and design research looking at sustainability of IoT;
  • mapping out challenges from current design of IoT; showcasing tools developed by participants and organisers;
  • establishing roadblocks and triggers to change and how to address these;
  • examining the interface between design research and law for designing more sustainable IoT;
  • mapping out an agenda of priorities for change, including what problematic design practices need to be addressed and how;
  • and envisioning what more sustainable IoT futures would look like.

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

  1. Fabiana Anselmo Polido, University of Nottingham
  2. Teresa Castle Green, University of Nottingham
  3. Henry Collingham, Northumbria University
  4. Andre Ebert, Inovex
  5. Eva Hornecker, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
  6. Albrecht Kurze, Technische Universität Chemnitz
  7. Susan Lechelt, University of Edinburgh
  8. Michela Musto, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
  9. Liza Obermeier, Inovex
  10. Violet Owen, Lancaster University
  11. Sebastian Prost, Northumbria University
  12. Mike Stead, Lancaster University
  13. Aurelien Tabard, Universite Lyon 1 & INRIA.
  14. Lachlan Urquhart, University of Edinburgh
  15. Jia Wang, Durham University
  16. Mikolaj Wozniak, Oldenberg University
  17. Haili Wu, University of Edinburgh