Paper Info
Title
Hackathons as Participatory Design - Iterating Feminist Utopias.
Abstract
Breastfeeding is not only a public health issue, but also a matter of economic and social justice. This paper presents an iteration of a participatory design process to create spaces for re-imagining products, services, systems, and policies that support breastfeeding in the United States. Our work contributes to a growing literature around making hackathons more inclusive and accessible, designing participatory processes that center marginalized voices, and incorporating systems- and relationship-based approaches to problem solving. By presenting an honest assessment of the successes and shortcomings of the first iteration of a hackathon, we explain how we re-structured the second "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" hackathon in service of equity and systems design. Key to our re-imagining of conventional innovation structures is a focus on experience design, where joy and play serve as key strategies to help people and institutions build relationships across lines of difference. We conclude with a discussion of design principles applicable not only to designers of events, but to social movement researchers and HCI scholars trying to address oppression through the design of technologies and socio-technical systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290605.3300291
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
breastfeeding, equity, feminist hci, hackathons, intersectional hci, maternal health, participatory design
Design elements and principles,Oppression,Social movement,Participatory design,Public relations,Computer science,Systems design,Social exclusion,Equity (finance),Citizen journalism,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5970-2
2
0.35
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexis Hope120.69
Catherine D'Ignazio2225.22
Josephine Hoy371.12
Rebecca Michelson450.75
Jennifer Roberts550.75
Kate Krontiris620.35
Ethan Zuckerman7475.54