Welcome to a K3 seminar with Maliheh Ghajargar, Associate Senior Lecturer in Interaction Technologies, K3

The title of the seminar is Human- Machine Learning Interaction Design: Challenges and Opportunities

This will be an online seminar, carried out through Zoom, and it will take place on Wednesday, May 13 at 10.15-12.00. Please join here:

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/525078598

Here is an abstract for the talk:

This short talk will be about my new research project that I am carrying out in collaboration with IoTaP research centre, as a part of the Dynamic Intelligent Sensor Intensive Systems (DISS) project.

This project aims to improve the process of Interactive Machine Learning (IML), by designing various modalities of interactions between Human and Machine Learning (ML) model. I do this research project through design explorations and implementations.

I will talk briefly about the project, possible collaborations, and the call for papers of the workshop that I along with other four co-organisers will organise at IoT conference.

Welcome to a K3 seminar with Jakob Svensson, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, K3

The title of the seminar is Wizards of the Web. A journey into tech culture, the logics of programming and mathemagics

This will be an online seminar, carried out through Zoom, and it will take place on Wednesday, April 29 at 10.15-12.00. Please join here:

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/872321147

The seminar will be based on his forthcoming book Wizards of the Web. A journey into tech culture, the logics of programming and mathemagics. You can take part in deciding which parts of the book he will talk about. Instructions from Jakob below:

“For Jakob’s Seminar Wizards of Web you get to vote on which chapter he will talk about.

Please go to the video on MAU play (https://play.mau.se/media/t/0_qvedtzgu) and see the introduction to the book. Doodles for the voting you find at the MAU play site of the introduction video (https://doodle.com/poll/h7msk6reashmgkqz). For those of you familiar with Jakob’s project (i.e. attended previous seminars with Jakob), you can skip the first part of the video and go directly to the end part where Jakob summarizes the chapters”

Here you can watch Tindra Thor’s seminar Urban disruptions – On the political, spatial and artistic potentials of street art and graffiti.

Welcome to a K3 seminar dealing with the topic of K3 research. As all other departments at Malmö University, K3’s research has been externally evaluated, and the report of the evaluators is now official. We will take that report, as well as the self-evaluation we wrote for the evaluators, as points of departure for a discussion of what it is we do at K3. Among other things, the discussion will focus on these questions:

• What is good about K3 as a research unit?
• What can we improve and how?
• What should we as a research unit put our emphasis on the coming five years?

I will start the seminar by summarizing our self-evaluation and the external reviewers’ evaluation. Then we will have a discussion. It will start with prepared comments from some K3 researchers, and then we will have an open discussion.

This will be an online seminar, carried out through Zoom, and it will take place on Wednesday, April 22 at 10.15-12.00. Please join here:

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/116874870

Welcome to a K3 seminar with Tindra Thor, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, K3

The title of the seminar is Urban disruptions – On the political, spatial and artistic potentials of street art and graffiti.

This will be an online seminar, carried out through Zoom, and it will take place on Wednesday, April 15 at 10.15-12.00. Please join here:

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/616942916

Below you can find an abstract for the seminar:

Starting off in a story about an unexpected urban performance with an anonymous other, this presentation will explore the simultaneous critical and hospitable character of graffiti and street art as urban communicative disruptions. My talk is mainly based on my dissertation work, which is a performance ethnography of how makers of un-commissioned urban arts, specifically graffiti- and street art, (re)negotiate and create urban space through aesthetic and spatial interventions in Stockholm. In my research, I have explored studied these (artistic) performances as critical, anti-institutional and spatially subversive, primarily directing their critique against the logic of neo-liberalism, ownership and commodified public spaces. Following that logic, the artists sometimes also embrace a mission of emancipating the (mainstream) minds of people and awakening, what could be understood as, a zombification of society. During my talk I will walk through these critical stories and discuss them in relation to questions such as the right to the city; the urban space as democratic arena, spatial subversion, the becoming of art and politics, and artistic (un)freedom. I hope some of you will join me in this exploration of these anonymous, curious and precarious stories.

One more K3 seminar has now been added to the spring program. On May 20, 10.15-12.00, Lars Hulgård, K3 visiting professor in Social Innovation will give an online talk with the title The Seductive Power of Social Innovation – Possibilities and Pitfalls. You are all very welcome to tune in and take part: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/216250922

Here you can watch Joshka Wessel’s seminar Documenting Syria. Film-making, video activism and revolution from April 1.

Due to the situation caused by the Corona virus, the schedule for K3 seminars for the rest of the term has changed. Below you will find the new schedule. All seminars will be online:

Wednesday, April 15 at 10.15-12.00

Tindra Thor, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, K3

Urban disruptions – On the political, spatial and artistic potentials of street art and graffiti

Online seminar: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/616942916

Wednesday, April 22 at 10.15-12.00

What is K3 research? A discussion based on the ERA19 evaluation of K3 research

Online seminar: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/116874870

Wednesday, April 29 at 10.15-12.00

Jakob Svensson, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, K3

Wizards of the Web. A journey into tech culture, the logics of programming and mathemagics

Online seminar: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/872321147

Wednesday, May 13 at 10.15-12.00

Maliheh Ghajargar, Associate Senior Lecturer in Interaction Technologies, K3

Aesthetics of everyday use interactive objects for energy management: A literature study.

Online seminar: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/525078598

Wednesday, May 27 at 10.15-12.00

Vittorio Felci, Researcher, K3

A temporal study of social cohesion and resilience to tackle the consequences of climate and environmental change in urban Khartoum – Resilience in Urban Sudan (RUS)

Online seminar: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/562185668

Thursday, June 4 at 10.15-12.00

Johan Farkas, PhD candidate in Media and Communication Studies, K3

Beyond fake news: Disguised propaganda as socio-technical struggles in digital media

50 percent PhD seminar

Discussant: Jenny Wiik, docent in Media and Communication Studies, K3 Online seminar: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/168574292

Welcome to a K3 seminar with Joshka Wessels, Senior Lecturer in Communication for Development, K3.

The title of the seminar is Documenting Syria. Film-making, video activism and revolution.

This will be an online seminar, carried out through Zoom, and it will take place on Wednesday, April 1 at 10.15-12.00. Please join here:

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/8570893639.

Below you can find an abstract for the seminar.

Joshka will talk about her new book “Documenting Syria; Revolution, Filmmaking and Video Activism” recently published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury. Syria is now one of the most important countries in the world for the international documentary film industry. The most recent Syria documentary film “For Sama” is nominated for the 2020 Oscars and has become the most BAFTA nominated documentary film ever. Since the 1970s, Syrian cinema masters played a defining role in avant-garde filmmaking and political dissent against authoritarianism. After the outbreak of violence in 2011, an estimated 500,000 video clips were uploaded making it one of the first YouTubed revolutions in history.

“Documenting Syria” is the very first history of documentary filmmaking in Syria. Based on extensive media ethnography and in-depth interviews with Syrian filmmakers in exile, the book offers an archival analysis of the documentary work by masters of Syrian cinema, such as Nabil Maleh, Ossama Mohammed, Mohammed Malas, Hala Al Abdallah, Hanna Ward, Ali Atassi and Omar Amiralay. Joshka traces how the works of these filmmakers became iconic for a new generation of filmmakers at the beginning of the 21st century and maps the radical change in the documentary landscape after the revolution of 2011.

During her virtual booktalk, Joshka will screen exclusive and rarely seen film material covering the history of Syrian documentary film from the 1970’s until today.

On Tuesday, March 31 at 10.15, Anuradha Reddy, PhD candidate in Interaction Design, will hold her 90 percent PhD seminar. The title of the forthcoming thesis is At Home ‘in’ IoT? – A Design Inquiry. Daniela Rosner, Associate Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington, will function as discussant.

This will be an online seminar, carried out through Zoom.

To be sure that everything works smoothly, please install the Zoom software on your computer beforehand. Please then join the meeting through https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/494267134 (Meeting ID: 494 267 134). Please join the meeting in time and turn off your audio and video during the first part of the seminar. The chat will be open for questions (or pointing out technical issues) throughout the seminar. We will try to have a broader round of questions at the end where all listeners can turn on their microphones.

Below you can find an abstract for the seminar. If you would like to read the manuscript before the seminar, contact Anuradha (anuradha.reddy@mau.se).

The technology frameworks supporting the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) have operated in domestic spaces for several decades now i.e., smart connected homes. However, its strong scientific and industry hold has left little room for understanding what it means to be at home in everyday spaces constituted by things participating in hidden and distributed data networks. The thesis argues that stories of use and appropriation in IoT’s design and development fall short of many meanings of home, generated by the continually shifting nature of data-driven things and potentialities for interaction. The thesis acknowledges how IoT brings us, at once, intimately closer to things and contexts we could once never reach—lending new homely imaginaries, and also how IoT’s capacities can help surface the complexities in what is conceived as ‘home’ today.

This Interaction Design thesis focuses on ‘participation’—the central tenet that guides our sense of belonging—to be at home in the world. This focus examines different forms of participation that are currently at play in IoT and how they support sense-making processes involving people, things, sensors, and data. By adopting frameworks in participatory design, technoscience, and feminist approaches, this thesis tackles sense-making at the most intimate level—situated, material, and embodied—and extends those meanings to things that have uniquely artificial, agential, and immaterial capacities. A methodological framework called ‘tales of things’ is employed to elicit subjective and reflexive experiences in the participatory sense-making process through design experimentation and prototyping. Importantly, the thesis sustains the ongoing ethical project of surfacing the implications of IoT by calling for active and responding bodies in re-claiming the sense of home in our daily lives.