Provocation, Conflict, and Appropriation: The Role of the Designer in Making Publics

Karin Hansson is an artist and researcher at The Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm and a docent in Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. Through a practice-based research approach she has explored the norms and values embedded in the systems and aesthetics of the design. She has written extensively about technology-based participation from a critical design perspective, contributing to diverse research areas, such as urban planning, arts sociology, and crisis informatics.

Laura Forlano is an associate professor of Design at the Institute of Design and Affiliated Faculty in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology where she is director of the Critical Futures Lab. Forlano's research is focused on the aesthetics and politics at the intersection between design and emerging technologies. She is co-editor with Marcus Foth, Christine Satchell, and Martin Gibbs of From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (MIT Press 2011). She received her PhD in communications from Columbia University.

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi is a vice-chancellor's senior research fellow at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and Design & Creative Practice ECP at RMIT and the founding chair of SIGCHI FoodCHI. Previously, she was the director of the QUT Urban Informatics Research Lab. Her current research explores designing novel technologies and services for care across self-care and mutual aid, social entrepreneurship, and co-creative urban transformation.

Carl DiSalvo is an associate professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he directs the Public Design Workshop: a design research studio that explores socially-engaged design and civic media. He is also a co-editor of the MIT Press journal Design Issues. DiSalvo's scholarship draws together theories and methods from design research and design studies, the social sciences and the humanities, to analyze the social and political qualities of design, and to prototype experimental systems and services. DiSalvo holds a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University (2006).

Teresa Cerratto Pargman is an Associate Professor of HCI and Head of the Interaction Design and Learning Research unit at Stockholm University. She is currently working with design issues at the intersection of civic participation, mobile apps, and social media analytics.

Shaowen Bardzell is an associate professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. A common thread throughout her work is the exploration of the contributions of design, feminism, and social science to support technology's role in social change. She is the co-editor of Critical Theory and Interaction Design (MIT Press, in press) and co-author of Humanistic HCI (Morgan & Claypool, 2015).

Silvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information, with a courtesy appointment in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. Lindtner's research and teaching interests include innovation and technology entrepreneurship; making and hacking cultures; and shifts in digital work, labor, industry, policy, and governance. This work unfolds through a deep engagement with issues of gender, inequality, and enactments of masculinity in engineering and computer science fields; politics and transnational imaginaries of design; contemporary political economy; and processes of economization. Her research has been awarded support from the US National Science Foundation, IMLS, Intel Labs, Google Anita Borg, and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation.

Somya Joshi is an associate professor in Human Computer Interaction at Stockholm University. Her area of specialization intersects the fields of Sustainability and Participatory Decision Making, in which innovative technological tools and practices mediate sustainable development.