BlackBox Vending Machine
Dan Southwick, University of Toronto/Critical Making Lab;
Gabby Resch, University of Toronto/Critical Making Lab
Matt Ratto, University of Toronto/Critical Making Lab
The Blackbox Vending Machine is an interactive touchscreen-based kiosk that will ask conference participants to make a series of ethical, moral, social, and political decisions as part of a maker culture express experience.
Citizen-Led Forensics
Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, University of Durham, UK
Ciencia Forense Ciudadana (CfC )is ar citizen-led organisation created with the task of governing and managing the emerging DNA and forensic database that has documented more than 708 cases of disappearance in Mexico.
Critical Digital Exhibits
Alan Richardson, University of British Columbia;
Raquel Baldwinson, University of British Columbia
Sharon Doucet, University of British Columbia
Nicholas Fitz, University of British Columbia
Jordan Howell, University of British Columbia
Adrian Lou, University of British Columbia
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, University of British Columbia
Shoshana Deutsh, Cornell University
Our team members each construct a "critical digital exhibit," in which they display their identifications, connections, understandings, critiques and revisions in a way that addresses issues within each site of knowledge-production.
Experimental Methods
Sarah Klein, University of California, San Diego;
Yelena Gluzman, University of California, San Diego
Collaborative experiments are opportunities for STS scholars and scientists to engage the empirical outside of our usual disciplinary constraints. We pursue experimental situations that can materialize and entwine divergent concerns, priorities, subjects and objects.
Tell a Salmon
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, UC Berkeley;
July Cole, Independent Scholar
Tell a Salmon Your Troubles intervenes in the silenced grief of scientists who work with species facing extinction.
Wooden Boat Building
Jr-Ping Wang, National Kaohsiung Marine University;
Wen-Ling Hong, National Kaohsiung Marine University
Kuo-Tung Luo, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Hong-zen Wang, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Chiao-Chin Liang, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Tian-Chi Hou, National Kaohsiung Marine University
An inter-disciplinary team was formed to combine knowledge of wooden boat building, effort of a hands-on class in teaching Naval Architecture and social study about shipbuilding to establish a wooden boat building school in Kaohsiung.