Date and time: Tuesday 10 March 2026, 09:00 – 13:00
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
Designing Care, Refusing Harm: Feminist Red and Green Lines for AI in Gendered Health
AI systems in health are often framed as neutral tools for efficiency, prediction, and care. Feminist and critical scholarship, however, has long demonstrated that health technologies are never merely technical: they embed assumptions about bodies, responsibility, risk, normalcy, and worthiness.
This workshop explores how feminist approaches to AI in health can help articulate not only how systems should be designed, but whether they should be designed at all. Using the framing of red lines (systems that should be refused) and green lines (systems that may be cautiously explored), the workshop invites participants to collectively examine the limits and possibilities of AI in gendered health contexts.
Drawing on feminist science and technology studies, ethics of care, reproductive justice, disability studies, and data justice, participants will identify classes of AI health systems that warrant resistance, alongside areas where feminist values might guide careful experimentation. The workshop foregrounds gendered and intersectional harms, grounding discussion in participants’ disciplinary, professional, and lived expertise, and aims to leverage critique toward shared principles for feminist refusal and responsible exploration in AI health design.
Participation by invitation only. Questions? Contact Rob Comber rcomber@kth.se
Agenda
09:00 – 9:30 | Arrive & Coffee
09:30 – 10:00 | Opening remarks – Introductions
10:00 – 11:00 | Panel with Anna Brynskov, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Sanna Kuoppamäki, and Amir Hossein Payberah
11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 | Small Group Discussions
12:00 – 12:15 | Wrap-up
12:15 – 13:00 | Lunch at Syster & Bror (4 minute walk)
End of Day
