Women of SIGGRAPH Conversations (WOSC) presents a conversation with Catherine D’Ignazio, author of “Data Feminism.”
Catherine D’Ignazio is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial justice. D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run reproductive justice hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. With Rahul Bhargava, she built the platform Databasic.io, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her 2020 book from MIT Press, Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices.
This talk will explore examples of data feminism in action, particularly as they relate to data visualization and technology design. In a grounded case study of co-designed technology, she will show how ethical principles can help us orient ourselves, but they cannot anticipate all the messiness and friction that inevitably arise in a design process.
Join WOSC at 11am on October 24th PST.