Date and time: Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:00-15:00 CEST
Speaker: Neha Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Post-growth and Feminist Tech
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR Zoom
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
OR
Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69560887455
NOTE: Digital Futures faculty who are not registered participants to the Focus Period workshop are welcome to join online.
Host: Jooyoung Park jooyoung@kth.se
Bio: Neha Kumar is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She conducts research on responsible and sustainable human-centered computing, investigating infrastructures of care, to inform the design and maintenance of such infrastructures leveraging emerging technologies. Pursuing community-engaged research, she foregrounds worker-centered perspectives and community wellbeing in contexts surrounding care. Her work on planetary care bridges scholarship on sustainability and development in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
Neha’s research has received over a dozen awards and recognitions at premier HCI venues. She has served as President of ACM SIGCHI since 2021 and Chair of ACM’s SIG Governing Board since 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in Information Management Systems from UC Berkeley, Master’s in Computer Science and Education from Stanford University, and Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Applied Math from UC Berkeley.
Abstract: This seminar will begin with an introduction to post-growth HCI, which has very much been shaped by a feminist tech orientation. It will then serve as an exploration into how a post-growth orientation might open up new ways of viewing and investigating feminist tech.
