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Emerging Technologies Research Lab

Locality: Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia

Address: 800 Dandenong Road Caulfield East, VIC, Australia

Website: https://www.monash.edu/mada/research/labs/emerging-technologies-lab

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25.01.2022 Shanti Sumartojo contributed to this article about urban robotics as an emerging possibility for the colonisation of public space Read 'The introduction to Media and the Lockdown City', by Dave Colangelo & Zach Melzer in Mediapolis Journal here: https://www.mediapolisjournal.com//media-and-the-physical/ ... Monash University Art Design & Architecture

25.01.2022 How can a sense of home be created for vulnerable healthcare patients? Using ethnographic resarch, we propose that the ongoing everyday designing of homeliness by hospital staff, in collaboration with patients, is an element of care that contributes significantly to bringing the feeling of home, and the sense of comfort associated with it, into a clinical environment. Homeliness in Health Care: The Role of Everyday Designing (Home Cultures, Vol 16.)... https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/17406315.2020.1757381 Monash University Art Design & Architecture

24.01.2022 Announcing Dr Ilya Fridman as the newest member of the ETlab! Ilya's research interests include design thinking, co-design, participatory design, interdisciplinary research and sustainable development https://www.monash.edu/emerging-tech-researc//ilya-fridman

24.01.2022 Our PhD candidate @Rex_Martin_ will talk about his research in energy flexibility from two perspectives: one as envisaged by the energy sector, the other as experienced by day-to-day households. Online, 2pm, 30 March @AnuGrid @MonashUni #energyfutures http://ow.ly/78cX50E5H92

24.01.2022 Who owns the future city? Dr Jathan Sadowski s article in the Journal Urban Studies integrates established research on smart urbanism with emerging work on platform urbanism, to analyse how various techno-political trends are connected yet distinct. http://ow.ly/itUB50Alov5

24.01.2022 Who really benefits from smart technology? In Too Smart, Research Fellow Jathan Sadowski, looks at the proliferation of smart stuff in our lives and asks whether the tradeoff is worth it. https://www.monash.edu//book-release-too-smart-by-jathan-s

24.01.2022 New geographies of commemoration by Shanti Sumartojo argues that one aim of commemoration to reinforce the contours of national identity is disrupted by a focus on the experiential world. Associate Professor Shanti Sumartojo leads the Future Shared Environments research program. Shanti has experience in commemoration; public space; digital memorials and place-making. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309132520936758 Monash University Art Design & Architecture

23.01.2022 Pre-order The Smart Wife, co-authored by Associate Professor Yolande Strengers and Dr Jenny Kennedy (out September via MIT Press) In The Smart Wife, the authors examine the emergence of digital devices like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home that carry out wifeworkdomestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpersdesigned in male-dominated industriesis the 1950s housewife: white, mid...dle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. Strengers and Kennedy remind us that the design of gendered devices re-inscribes these outdated and unfounded stereotypes and show that advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. The Smart Wife offers a Smart Wife manifesta, proposing a Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-wife #diversity

23.01.2022 Interested in reading one of our publications but couldnt find it? Check out our new Publications section on our website https://www.monash.edu//research/our-pub/our-publications Monash University @pinkydigital @YolandeStreng @jathansadowski @LarissaNicholls @KariDahlgren @bajak70

22.01.2022 'Modes of making smart cities: Or, practices of variegated smart urbanism', is the latest journal article from Dr Jathan Sadowski, co-authored with Dr Sophia Maalsen (University of Sydney). This paper uses three case studies of Australian cities with three different modes of smart urbanism: corporate-centric, citizen-centric, and planner-centric. https://www.sciencedirect.com//a/abs/pii/S0736585320301088 #smartcities

22.01.2022 Coronavirus has accelerated the use of voice assistants, but there are concerns about unregulated online ‘playgrounds’. The Guardian reports on children driving the boom in smart speakers, referencing #thesmartwife by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy. http://ow.ly/XGjW50C2f1Q Monash Information Technology MIT Press

21.01.2022 Yesterday we got the news that our new 4- year project, which will bring together design anthropology and transition management to help cities and urban regions... reach net zero emissions, has been funded by the Australian Research Council: Net Zero Precincts: an interdisciplinary approach to decarbonising cities. Very excited that we will be taking this forward, and about the contribution we want to make. Emerging Technologies Research Lab

21.01.2022 As we begin to adjust to the new normal brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, we know things will not return exactly to the way they used to be. While were figuring out this new normal, we need to ask what aspects of our new lifestyles should stick around, and at what cost? In the September issue of Energy Magazine, the #digitalenergyfutures team explore the energy costs of staying at home. https://www.energymagazine.com.au/the-energy-costs-of-stay/... Monash Information Technology Energy Consumers Australia AusNet Services Ausgrid

21.01.2022 (Continued) Scenario 4: The smart and easy life. Your life will become more convenient with sensors, wearables, energy monitors, facial scanning for door locks, smart mirrors, monitoring techs and smart appliances.... Scenario 5: The active smart charging consumer. Electric vehicles and charging technologies will allow you to plug in at work and home to maximise solar power availability, and the storage capacity of home and car batteries. Scenario 6: The set and forget prosumer. Peer-to-peer trading, automated systems, smart thermostats and appliances will help you set up and automate your home energy management system around your daily routines, and make money with the excess solar power you generate onsite For more on #digitalenergyfutures visit: http://ow.ly/gUMY50AZd2d Research team: Analysis and scenarios were led by Dr Kari Dahlgren, with Sarah Pink, Yolande Strengers, Larissa Nicholls and Jathan Sadowski. Monash Information Technology Monash Arts Monash Energy Club

21.01.2022 'The Digital Home' virtual conference looks at how utilities can be defined and developed in a smart, connected way. This free webinar on Thursday July 30 at 2.45pm, includes guest speaker Yolande Strengers who will be discussing how everyday practices in Australian households are changing as new digital technologies emerge, and our social and work lives evolve. Additional presentations from Evoenergy, Accenture and Utility Magazine.... Register at http://ow.ly/VKHm50AGQu2 #digitalenergyfutures

20.01.2022 Article: Atmospheres of care in a psychiatric inpatient unit by Shanti Sumartojo, Sarah Pink, Melisa Duque & Laurene Vaughan http://ow.ly/AyEs50Agrto @bajak70 @pinkydigital @LaureneVaughan #futurehealth #hospital

19.01.2022 Ethnography and New Business Model Innovation - submit an abstract! NBM Conference 9-11th June 2021 (Sweden and online), abstracts are due January 2021 http://ow.ly/Ehxq50Cu8Qy

18.01.2022 Happy book launch day to Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (RMIT)! The Smart Wife is out now in US/EU via MIT Press (Australia launch Oct/Nov). Celebrate with this book excerpt in Slate.com https://slate.com//gender-smart-home-devices-artificial-in... @mitpress @DigitalEthno @MonashInfotech RMIT University

18.01.2022 Interested in reading one of our publications but couldn't find it? Check out our new Publications section on our website https://www.monash.edu//research/our-pub/our-publications Monash University @pinkydigital @YolandeStreng @jathansadowski @LarissaNicholls @KariDahlgren @bajak70

18.01.2022 Watch Laurene Vaughan (RMIT), Sarah Pink, Shanti Sumartojo and Melisa Duque reflect on how their differing interdisciplinary design perspectives enabled an understanding of how people make, experience, and design psychiatric care facilities. 'The sum is the realisation of the parts: interdisciplinary perspectives on care' panel discussion was produced for DRS2020 http://ow.ly/qrqi50AZ3s1... The researcher's different perspectives came together to create an interdisciplinary understanding that would not have been possible otherwise: Sarah: design anthropological interest in human creativity and improvisation to find ways of making the spaces they move through work for them Shanti: interest in spatiality as a geographer, to understand how people experience space and movement Melisa: interest in everyday design as a design researcher, looking at how people are continually designing the spaces they use daily. Laurene: interest in spatial design and how this is articulated through peoples experience and construction of place. Monash Arts

17.01.2022 ETLab has three new research projects under the lead of Associate Professor Yolande Strengers: 1) Designing ethical digital voice assistants This research project explores how to design more ethical and gender diverse digital voice assistants using speculative design and more-than-human methods, such as design fiction.... 2) Digital Energy Futures The Digital Energy Futures ARC Linkage project is a partnership between the Australian Research Council, Monash University, AusNet Services, Ausgrid and Energy Consumers Australia. The project aims to understand and forecast changing digital lifestyle trends and their impact on future household electricity demand, including at peak times. 3) Redesigning future visions for the sustainable smart home This project aims to understand how to design smart home technologies that enable more sustainable digital lifestyles through the visions and practices they promote. Apply by Aug 17 at https://supervisorconnect.it.monash.edu/s/yolande-strengers Monash Information Technology Monash Energy Club #digitalenergyfutures

17.01.2022 The Digital Home virtual conference looks at how utilities can be defined and developed in a smart, connected way. This free webinar on Thursday July 30 at 2.45pm, includes guest speaker Yolande Strengers who will be discussing how everyday practices in Australian households are changing as new digital technologies emerge, and our social and work lives evolve. Additional presentations from Evoenergy, Accenture and Utility Magazine.... Register at http://ow.ly/VKHm50AGQu2 #digitalenergyfutures

16.01.2022 Join Associate Professor of Design Research Shanti Sumartojo, as she hosts the book launch of Experiencing 11 November 2018: Commemoration and the First World War Centenary. This unique collection of 15 case studies demonstrates that a new conceptualisation of commemoration is needed: one that attends to how it feels. Shanti's research examines how people experience their surroundings, and how this relates to concepts including national identity. In 201718 she held a Vice-C...hancellor’s Research Fellowship at RMIT University that she used to establish the Commemoration Reframed research network that led to this book. She is the editor of Experiencing 11 November 2018 . The launch will feature keynote speaker Prof Jay Winter followed by a panel discussion with Chantal Kesteloot, Laurence van Ypersele, David C. Harvey, Emma Hanna and Kathy Smits. Register at: http://ow.ly/3DxD50CaUNU

16.01.2022 Have you registered for the Australian book launch of #thesmartwife? Join ABC broadcaster Annabel Crabb in discussion with Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy on Nov 4th at 5pm. https://www.monash.edu//book-launch-the-smart-wife-present @MonashInfotech

16.01.2022 Over 250 utility professionals joined the Digital Home Conference last week, hosted by Utility Magazine. Watch Yolande Strengers speak about industry visions of technology and people and insights from the lab's #digitalenergyfutures project. https://youtu.be/tHeS2zE0zVY ... @MonashInfotech AusNet Services Ausgrid Energy Consumers Australia

16.01.2022 Modes of making smart cities: Or, practices of variegated smart urbanism, is the latest journal article from Dr Jathan Sadowski, co-authored with Dr Sophia Maalsen (University of Sydney). This paper uses three case studies of Australian cities with three different modes of smart urbanism: corporate-centric, citizen-centric, and planner-centric. https://www.sciencedirect.com//a/abs/pii/S0736585320301088 #smartcities

16.01.2022 Call for Papers: Reinventing Things - Panel for SIEF2021 Conference at Helsinki June 2021 ETLab member Melisa Duque Hurtado co-hosts Reinventing things transgressing the rules of the material world in times of crisis. In the context of a world in crisis, this panel invites to explore the effects of social, economic, environmental, political or spiritual ruptures in our material lives and how in response people are breaking the rules that condition our relationships with eve...ryday things and environments. Our material world - from urban spaces to mundane objects - is the result of complex frameworks that rule our ways of living. We are expected to cross the road at the traffic light, read user manuals of new appliances, get rid of things if they stop working, sit down properly. This panel aims to explore how people are breaking the rules of the material world in response to current multilayered crises produced by pandemics, migration, waste, social discontent, political oppression, etc. The panel invites discussions around (but not limited to): What happens when everyday objects make no sense due to current crises? How has COVID-19 changed the use of things and shifted perceptions of cleanliness and contamination? How are reuse, thrift and other sustainable behaviours contesting throwaway society? How is queerness challenging gendered objects? How is immigration reshaping urban and domestic spaces around the world? How are online and offline protests shaping new visual cultures by mixing-up political and commercial imagery? How are these transformations in our material lives shaping future post-crisis scenarios? Call for Papers due: 26th of November - with a 250 words abstract. Panel’s details and the link to submit your proposal: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2021/p/9592# Conference link: https://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2021/index.shtml Monash Arts

15.01.2022 What do commemoration statues communicate to the public? Listen to Shanti Sumartojo talk about memorials with Bruce Scates and Reema Rattan on #communicationmixdown sugarsugarmelbourne https://www.3cr.org.au///what-monuments-and-memorials-mean ... #commemoration #memorials Monash Arts

14.01.2022 Are digital helpers falling back on old gender stereotypes? Associate Professor Yolande Strengers spoke with Saturday Breakfast ABC Perth about her forthcoming book 'The Smart Wife', (co-authored with Jenny Kennedy) #smartwife Listen back to the interview here: https://www.abc.net.au//saturdaybreakf/smart-wife/12514836... Monash Information Technology MIT Press

14.01.2022 Tonight: Tune into the Philosophers Zone on @radionational at 5.30pm to hear Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (RMIT) discuss their book 'The Smart Wife'. https://www.abc.net.au/radionati/programs/philosopherszone/ #diversity MIT Press Penguin Random House #thesmartwife #feministreboot Monash Information Technology

13.01.2022 'You CAN Ask that: Social research methods during the time of Covid-19' You're invited to an informal one-hour Q&A panel discussion which will give early career researchers the opportunity to ask more experienced researchers about social research methods during the time of Covid-19. Panellists will share their knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods and relay their experiences of adapting these methods to the constraints caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.... The panelists: Brady Robards Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences. Mark Rickinson Associate Professor in the faculty of Monash Education. Yolande Strengers Associate Professor in the Department of Human-Centred Computing. In the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, she leads the energy futures research program. Date: Wednesday 29th July, 10am to 11am To register for the live event, and to submit questions, visit the ETLab website for the details. http://ow.ly/vL4050ADBZG

13.01.2022 When our voice assistants dont perform the way we expect them to, its easy to yell at them. Its not going to upset them, right? In 'The Smart Wife' by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (RMIT), the authors argue, We are really concerned about this trend to make these robots and devices likable ... Its not about protecting robot feelings as much as being concerned about how any form of abuse of an anthropomorphised and, especially, feminised object can help normalize ab...use of feminization. https://www.digitaltrends.com/f/siri-alexa-feminist-reboot/ MIT Press Monash Information Technology RMIT University Digital Trends

13.01.2022 ETLab Director, Sarah Pink, has three new research projects now accepting PhD applications: 1) Air Technologies in Times of Crisis This project will examine how experiences and needs relating to air and the technologies used to manage it (sensors; predictive data analytics; air purification; filters; masks; heaters; coolers) are shifting in relation to the Australian Climate (Bushfire) and Health (COVID-19) crises. ... 2)The Future of Work This project examines the Future of Work through a focus on ethical and equitable uses of automated technologies. 3)Future Regional Mobilities: imagining interspecies futures This project examines Future Mobilities through a focus on how regional travel and transportation (of people, animals and things) is being experienced and re-imagined in relation to climate, public health and economic crisis. Apply by Aug 17 at https://supervisorconnect.it.monash.edu/supervis/sarah-pink Monash Information Technology Monash University Art Design & Architecture

13.01.2022 Free copies for the first 50 people with this link! Thanks Sarah Pink

12.01.2022 Melisa Duque presents today at DRS2020 about The Design for Wellbeing Project and her co-authored paper 'The sum is the realisation of the parts: interdisciplinary perspectives on care'. The Design for Wellbeing Project is led by Sarah Pink (Monash) with co-CI Laurene Vaughan (RMIT), and Shanti Sumartojo (Monash), and in collaboration with Exemplar Health and Bendigo Hospital. For more information on DRS Virtual head to: http://drs2020.org/virtual/... To read the report and key findings from The Design for Wellbeing Project, visit: https://www.monash.edu//rese/projects/design-for-wellbeing Monash Arts

12.01.2022 Who owns the future city? Dr Jathan Sadowski 's article in the Journal Urban Studies integrates established research on smart urbanism with emerging work on platform urbanism, to analyse how various techno-political trends are connected yet distinct. http://ow.ly/itUB50Alov5

11.01.2022 Watch Assoc. Professor Yolande Strengers, Dr Brady Robard and Assoc. Professor Mark Robinson discuss social research methods during #covid. Produced for You CAN Ask That! an informal Q&A linking Early Career Researchers with experienced academics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1XXZx9otL8&feature=youtu.be ... Monash Arts Monash Education Monash Information Technology

11.01.2022 Drawing on ethnographic research, ETLab PhD Rex Martin discusses the importance of the everyday to energy flexibility in Australian households. Watch his presentation here http://ow.ly/Jkwd50EcOra #digitalenergyfutures

10.01.2022 The #digitalenergyfutures team reviewed digital tech & energy reports to create six aggregated industry visions for the future home. These scenarios are not our visions. They're synthesised (pre-COVID) trends and predictions found in digital tech & energy industry reports. They're skewed towards affluent and tech-savvy households, and represent extended visions of the present. We're about to start testing these industry scenarios in household ethnographic research as part of ...our ARC Linkage Project with Energy Consumers Australia AusNet Services Ausgrid Scenario 1: Cool and comfortable in extreme weather. Increasing days of extreme weather and poorer air quality will result in you spending more time indoors with climate control and air purification technologies. Scenario 2: Stay at home life. Working, studying, entertaining and shopping will all be done from your home, with the help of telecommuting, virtual reality, augmented reality, voice assistants and other emerging tech. Scenario 3: Ageing at home. More older people will be able to safely age in place for longer, with the help of wearable tech, robot companions & carers, digital voice assistants, self-driving cars, smart appliances and in-home sensors.

10.01.2022 Sarah Pink discusses design anthropology for emerging technologies: Trust and sharing in autonomous driving futures in her article on Science Direct http://ow.ly/dLRt50Ah3Zj #automation #selfdrivingcars @technology #trust #cars @sciencedirect

09.01.2022 'New geographies of commemoration' by Shanti Sumartojo argues that one aim of commemoration to reinforce the contours of national identity is disrupted by a focus on the experiential world. Associate Professor Shanti Sumartojo leads the Future Shared Environments research program. Shanti has experience in commemoration; public space; digital memorials and place-making. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309132520936758 Monash University Art Design & Architecture

09.01.2022 In the The Jetsons, the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series set in the future, Rosie the robot did the chores that nobody else cared to do cleaning and cooking, scratching George Jetson on the back, and shooting basketball hoops with young Elroy. Funnily enough, the original Rosie was an older-model robot, which was all the Jetsons could afford. But the family grew to love her, and refused an upgrade. Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (RMIT) argue that the female voices on... our smartphones and networked home devices such as Google Home are re-creating an old-fashioned feminine stereotype, where a little lady can be called upon to help us out. Read more about #thesmartwife and the smart-home technology in need of a gender reboot: https://lens.monash.edu//smart-home-technology-in-need-of- MIT Press Monash Information Technology

09.01.2022 The Monash Energy Institute is holding their third Net Zero webinar on November 11th. Panel members Dr Declan Kuch (Western Sydney University & University of New South Wales), Dr Sophie Adams (University of New South Wales), Associate Professor Yolande Strengers (Monash University) and Mark Boulet (BehaviourWorks Australia) will explore how automation and changes in distributed energy resources are enabling greater participation from energy users to engage with emerging energ...y futures, and how this may vary across different contexts and settings. #digitalenergyfutures http://ow.ly/3PtK50C2hAv

08.01.2022 Article from @pinkydigital 'Sensuous futures: re-thinking the concept of trust in design anthropology' - how the anticipatory concept of trust can be re-worked theoretically and ethnographically through a sensuous approach to scholarship in design anthropology and futures anthropology http://ow.ly/W2ij50E5LqA

08.01.2022 Our first #digitalenergyfutures study, as featured in Life Begins At Magazine. Read more about our report on how the energy and tech sectors predict our everyday lives and how this will change in the home of the future. https://www.monash.edu//release-of-digital-energy-futures-... Monash Information Technology

07.01.2022 In Australia, robots in public spaces aren't yet the norm - but in places like Korea they are part of everyday life. Watch the virtual discussion about robots in public space on the 7th April with our very own 'spatialities' expert Associate Professor Shanti Sumartojo - tickets are available here http://ow.ly/JzVa50E5FKm Monash University #spatialities #robotsinpublicspace

06.01.2022 Deadline reminder: Expressions of Interest for our PhD research projects with Associate Professor Yolande Strengers or ETLab Director Sarah Pink, close on August 17th. Find out more at: https://www.monash.edu/emerging-tech-resear//study-with-us ... @MonashInfotech @MonashEnergy #digitalenergyfutures

06.01.2022 Study with us! We have six PhD interest areas open for EOI (due 17 August 2020): - Designing ethical digital voice assistants... - Digital Energy Futures - Air technologies in times of crisis - The Future of Work - Future Regional Mobilities: imagining interspecies futures - Redesigning future visions for the sustainable smart home Learn about all the opportunities here: https://www.monash.edu/emerging-tech-resear//study-with-us Monash Information Technology

06.01.2022 LISTEN to Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (RMIT) on ABC Radio National discussing the ways AI-powered home devices are really "smart wives" passive, compliant + modelled on the 50s American housewife. How far have we really progressed? Smart home devices make life easier, and they're increasingly popular. But are they gender-neutral entities? Learn about a host of issues around women's roles, "women's work" and how far we've really progressed as a society toward gender... equity. https://www.abc.net.au//ai-home-devices-a-feminis/12564584 MIT Press Monash Information Technology

06.01.2022 Who really benefits from smart technology? In 'Too Smart', Research Fellow Jathan Sadowski, looks at the proliferation of smart stuff in our lives and asks whether the tradeoff is worth it. https://www.monash.edu//book-release-too-smart-by-jathan-s

06.01.2022 Automated Decision-Making (ADM) is making important but often invisible choices for us and our society. Late last year, ETLab hosted the first meeting of the Re-Humanising Automated Decision Making Network. Led by Martin Berg (Malmö University), the project aims to unpack how the research and design of ADM can be humanised.... Head to the link below to watch Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki) discuss the ethical questions that arise from ADM; Listen to Julian Thomas (RMIT University) take a technology-neutral approach to AI; and Listen to Ann Nicholson (Monash University) present the challenges of developing AI systems in light of the rapid progress of society. http://ow.ly/rGMg50AlnTI

06.01.2022 Now available in Spanish!

05.01.2022 Pre-order 'The Smart Wife', co-authored by Associate Professor Yolande Strengers and Dr Jenny Kennedy (out September via MIT Press) In 'The Smart Wife', the authors examine the emergence of digital devices like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home that carry out wifeworkdomestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpersdesigned in male-dominated industriesis the 1950s housewife: white, mid...dle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. Strengers and Kennedy remind us that the design of gendered devices re-inscribes these outdated and unfounded stereotypes and show that advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. The Smart Wife offers a Smart Wife manifesta, proposing a Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-wife #diversity

05.01.2022 You CAN Ask that: Social research methods during the time of Covid-19 Youre invited to an informal one-hour Q&A panel discussion which will give early career researchers the opportunity to ask more experienced researchers about social research methods during the time of Covid-19. Panellists will share their knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods and relay their experiences of adapting these methods to the constraints caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.... The panelists: Brady Robards Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences. Mark Rickinson Associate Professor in the faculty of Monash Education. Yolande Strengers Associate Professor in the Department of Human-Centred Computing. In the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, she leads the energy futures research program. Date: Wednesday 29th July, 10am to 11am To register for the live event, and to submit questions, visit the ETLab website for the details. http://ow.ly/vL4050ADBZG

05.01.2022 Our research about the work of child protection social workers during COVID-19 shows how creatively they've continued to work, do home visits & protect children during lockdowns. https://www.theguardian.com//social-workers-efforts-to-pro Learn more about our other Future of Work and Learning projects and research program at:... https://www.monash.edu//our-re/future-of-work-and-learning

04.01.2022 Tomorrow is the online book launch for 'Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship through Data' featuring Sarah Pink, Jolynna Sinanan, Larissa Hjorth and Heather Horst, subscribe through the link @pinkydigital @jolynnasinanan @hahhh @micronarrative

04.01.2022 "I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's full of insight with some jaw-dropping moments and really thoughtful research. " Thank you to ABC broadcaster Annabel Crabb for hosting the Australian launch of The Smart Wife, by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy. Watch the video or listen to the podcast here https://www.monash.edu//can-smart-wives-end-the-wife-droug @MonashInfotech

03.01.2022 Shanto Sumartojo writes in Mediapolis Journal about how COVID-19 has encouraged an increase in the use of robotic technologies, and how their presence demands our attention in shaping future cities. "The startling emptiness of usually busy shared spaces therefore provides a productive backdrop to thinking about the capacities and limits of these technologies." Read the article at: https://www.mediapolisjournal.com//robotic-logics-of-publ/Monash Information Technology Mediapolis Journal Monash University Art Design & Architecture

03.01.2022 What If Technology Belonged to the People? VICE explores non-market, publicly-owned alternatives to big tech referencing Jathan Sadowski's book "Too Smart" (available via MIT Press and Penguin Random House) https://www.vice.com//what-if-technology-belonged-to-the-p @MonashInfotech

03.01.2022 Did you catch Sarah Pink's Jean Monnet Lecture about Future Automated Mobilities and Possible Worlds? Catch it here https://youtu.be/wqU5SzRVpRM @monashuni #futuremobilities #automation

02.01.2022 WINNER of the AI in Innovation category at the #WAIAwards2021ANZ is Associate Professor Yolande Strengers. Congratulations from all the team! Read the news at https://www.monash.edu//yolande-strengers-wins-at-the-wome Monash University Monash Information Technology Women in AI

02.01.2022 Next month is the More-Than-Human Design and AI workshop which will be held as part of the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference, check it out here http://ow.ly/r81H50AgqXv #ai #design #human

01.01.2022 Welcome our new PhDs! Robert Lundberg researches the relationship between attention, chance, and sociality in physical-digital public realms. Sara Daly considers the impact of energy usage through climate control and the underlying systemic and structural forces behind air conditioning.... http://ow.ly/TpUg50AoAXz Monash University

01.01.2022 Our research in the Guardian today, well done Sarah Pink