TECHNO-CULTURES OF CRAFT

Ames, M. G., and Daniela K. Rosner. "From drills to laptops: designing modern childhood imaginaries." Information, Communication & Society ahead-of-print (2013): 1-14.

Rosner, D. "Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public 9 Sites of Repair in Northern California." Public Culture 26, no. 1 72 (2014): 51-77. [PDF]

Ikemiya, M. and D. Rosner. (2013) "Broken Probes: toward the design of worn media." Journal of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. [PDF]

Rosner, D. K. and A. S. Taylor. (2012) Binding and aging. Journal of Material Culture 17(4) 405-424. [PDF]

Rosner, D. K. (2012) The Material Practices of Collaboration. In Proc. of CSCW'12.

Rosner, D. K. and A. S. Taylor. (2011) "Antiquarian Answers: Book Restoration as a Resource for Design." In Proc. of CHI'11. [PDF] Honorable Mention Award.

Rosner, Daniela K., and Kimiko Ryokai. "Reflections on craft: probing the creative process of everyday knitters." In Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition, pp. 195-204. ACM, 2009. [PDF]

Rosner, D.K. and J. Bean. (2009) Learning from IKEA Hacking: "I'm Not One to Decoupage a Tabletop and Call It a Day". Proceedings of CHI'09. [PDF]

Workshops

Rosner, Daniela K., Steven J. Jackson, Garnet Hertz, Lara Houston, and Nimmi Rangaswamy. "Reclaiming repair: maintenance and mending as methods for design." In CHI'13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3311-3314. ACM, 2013.

Today thousands of artists, designers, and craftspeople turn to computing resources to digitally enhance their work. They use how-to tutorials to share stories of production, social networks to connect with other makers, and social media platforms to scaffold ideation and manufacturing. Though these developments have begun to shape the nature and organization of traditional creative work, tools to support these practices have ignored recent shifts: most tools for handwork (e.g., chisels, pens, laser cutters) do not account for people’s use of social media or online collaborative resources.

This project extends a growing body of research on maintenance and repair to propose new approaches to the design, innovation and sustainability of computational artifacts and infrastructures. The research makes three central contributions: (1) It charts novel forms of practice, value, and engagement embedded in repair, and their relationship to the better-analyzed practices of industrial engineering, hacking, and other design-centered or interventionist forms of engagement. (2) It will offer new empirical and theoretical insight into the real-world mechanics of sustainability: the practices and institutions by which computing devices, systems and infrastructures are made sustainable in the world (or alternatively, discarded and replaced). (3) It broadens the geographic and analytic reach of computer and information science by examining practices of repair, maintenance and sustainability in sites traditionally marginal to human-computer research that constitute the long tail of real world computing experience.