Laura Forlano
Biographic Data
| ID | 248891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Forlano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Forlano |
| SIGNATURE | FORLANO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3997-7180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
World(coin) in the AI future: How sociotechnical fictions are instrumental to the cyberlibertarian transition
World is a crypto identity and financial infrastructure created by Sam Altman to face the challenges of what he calls the “Intelligence Age”. Building on science and technology studies, this paper examines how sociotechnical fictions are instrumentalised to enable both the emergence of this technology and broader cyberlibertarian politics. These fictions, forms of imagination produced within science and technology but unrecognised as such due to …
From Data Doubles to Data Demons: Reflections on a CripTech Collaboration
This article describes a collaboration between the authors around a series of robotic sculptures that were created by Barrio with data from Forlano’s “smart” insulin pump and sensor system. Forlano, a type 1 diabetic for over 10 years, expands upon previous writing about her experience as a “disabled cyborg.” As CripTech art, the robotic sculptures, discussed here as data demons, complicate and expand contemporary discourses on artificial intelli…
Bodies of Knowledge
No abstract available
Living Intimately with Machines: Can AI Be Disabled
research-article Open Access Share on Living Intimately with Machines: Can AI Be Disabled? Author: Laura Forlano Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 30Issue 1January - February 2023pp 24–29https://doi.org/10.1145/3572808Published:11 January 2023Publication History 2citation1,549DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations2Total Downloads1,549Last 12 Months1,549Last 6 weeks114 G…
Care-full co-curation: Critical urban placemaking for more-than-human futures
Can participatory engagements in the form of more-than-human co-creation be a generative form of socially and ecologically-just and critical urban placemaking? In recent years, there has been growing interest across sectors in bringing together diverse needs, desires, and experiences through co-creative processes that foster transformative futures, which involve caring with, and for, specific stakeholders. However, institutionalised and increasin…
The Uncommon Good: Making Room for Radical Transition Imaginaries
Public, social and community organizations are, in many locales, driving systems change toward social and economic equity, and environmental justice. But their visions for what achieving systems change should look like and what it will take to realize them are as diverse as the organizations pursuing them. Organizational coalitions are spaces where diverse groups converge to negotiate their distinct transition imaginaries: "collectively held, ins…
Laura Forlano
No abstract available
Foreword to Part 1
DigitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
More-than-human participation: Design for Sustainable Smart City Futures
In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the diversity of approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor
Critique as Collaboration in Design Anthropology
Design anthropology is an emerging field at the intersection of design and anthropology with a distinct style of knowing. This paper argues that in order to create transdisciplinary practices around collaboration for design anthropology, the field must understand existing practices of critique in the field of design. Based on a two-year National Science Foundation funded study of collaboration with designers and design educators in four countries…
From Design Fiction to Design Friction: Speculative and Participatory Design of Values-Embedded Urban Technology
This paper discusses the results of the Designing Policy project, which engages current debates about urban technology through the creation of a visual toolkit and a series of workshops. The workshops were held in Chicago, New York, and Boston during 2012–2013 with funding from the Urban Communication Foundation. The purpose of the project was three-fold: (1) to open up the “black box” of urban technology in order to reveal the politics embedded …
Making waves: Urban technology and the co–production of place
Over the past several years, as cities in the United States have faced increasing fiscal pressures, there has been a reinvigorated interest in the promise of smart cities, intelligent cities, digital cities, open source cities and media cities, which advocate the use of digital technologies to make cities more efficient, productive, innovative and attractive. However, the appropriation and use of urban technologies have transformed the aesthetic,…
Flash Mob Ethnography Workshop
WiFi Geographies: When Code Meets Place
This article argues that as our homes, offices, cities, and spaces get layered with digital information networks, it is vital that we develop new conceptual categories that integrate digital and physical spaces. With that objective in mind, it examines how WiFi networks interact with socioeconomic factors to reconfigure people, places, and information in physical spaces. Drawing on empirical research from ethnographic observations, a survey, and …
More-than-human participation: Design for Sustainable Smart City Futures
In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the diversity of approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor
WiFi Geographies: When Code Meets Place
This article argues that as our homes, offices, cities, and spaces get layered with digital information networks, it is vital that we develop new conceptual categories that integrate digital and physical spaces. With that objective in mind, it examines how WiFi networks interact with socioeconomic factors to reconfigure people, places, and information in physical spaces. Drawing on empirical research from ethnographic observations, a survey, and …
Care-full co-curation: Critical urban placemaking for more-than-human futures
Can participatory engagements in the form of more-than-human co-creation be a generative form of socially and ecologically-just and critical urban placemaking? In recent years, there has been growing interest across sectors in bringing together diverse needs, desires, and experiences through co-creative processes that foster transformative futures, which involve caring with, and for, specific stakeholders. However, institutionalised and increasin…
Foreword to Part 1
WiFi Geographies: When Code Meets Place
This article argues that as our homes, offices, cities, and spaces get layered with digital information networks, it is vital that we develop new conceptual categories that integrate digital and physical spaces. With that objective in mind, it examines how WiFi networks interact with socioeconomic factors to reconfigure people, places, and information in physical spaces. Drawing on empirical research from ethnographic observations, a survey, and …
Flash Mob Ethnography Workshop
Making waves: Urban technology and the co–production of place
Over the past several years, as cities in the United States have faced increasing fiscal pressures, there has been a reinvigorated interest in the promise of smart cities, intelligent cities, digital cities, open source cities and media cities, which advocate the use of digital technologies to make cities more efficient, productive, innovative and attractive. However, the appropriation and use of urban technologies have transformed the aesthetic,…
From Design Fiction to Design Friction: Speculative and Participatory Design of Values-Embedded Urban Technology
This paper discusses the results of the Designing Policy project, which engages current debates about urban technology through the creation of a visual toolkit and a series of workshops. The workshops were held in Chicago, New York, and Boston during 2012–2013 with funding from the Urban Communication Foundation. The purpose of the project was three-fold: (1) to open up the “black box” of urban technology in order to reveal the politics embedded …
Critique as Collaboration in Design Anthropology
Design anthropology is an emerging field at the intersection of design and anthropology with a distinct style of knowing. This paper argues that in order to create transdisciplinary practices around collaboration for design anthropology, the field must understand existing practices of critique in the field of design. Based on a two-year National Science Foundation funded study of collaboration with designers and design educators in four countries…
DigitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies
More-than-human participation: Design for Sustainable Smart City Futures
In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the diversity of approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor
Laura Forlano
No abstract available
Foreword to Part 1
Bodies of Knowledge
No abstract available
Living Intimately with Machines: Can AI Be Disabled
research-article Open Access Share on Living Intimately with Machines: Can AI Be Disabled? Author: Laura Forlano Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 30Issue 1January - February 2023pp 24–29https://doi.org/10.1145/3572808Published:11 January 2023Publication History 2citation1,549DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations2Total Downloads1,549Last 12 Months1,549Last 6 weeks114 G…
Care-full co-curation: Critical urban placemaking for more-than-human futures
Can participatory engagements in the form of more-than-human co-creation be a generative form of socially and ecologically-just and critical urban placemaking? In recent years, there has been growing interest across sectors in bringing together diverse needs, desires, and experiences through co-creative processes that foster transformative futures, which involve caring with, and for, specific stakeholders. However, institutionalised and increasin…
The Uncommon Good: Making Room for Radical Transition Imaginaries
Public, social and community organizations are, in many locales, driving systems change toward social and economic equity, and environmental justice. But their visions for what achieving systems change should look like and what it will take to realize them are as diverse as the organizations pursuing them. Organizational coalitions are spaces where diverse groups converge to negotiate their distinct transition imaginaries: "collectively held, ins…
From Data Doubles to Data Demons: Reflections on a CripTech Collaboration
This article describes a collaboration between the authors around a series of robotic sculptures that were created by Barrio with data from Forlano’s “smart” insulin pump and sensor system. Forlano, a type 1 diabetic for over 10 years, expands upon previous writing about her experience as a “disabled cyborg.” As CripTech art, the robotic sculptures, discussed here as data demons, complicate and expand contemporary discourses on artificial intelli…
World(coin) in the AI future: How sociotechnical fictions are instrumental to the cyberlibertarian transition
World is a crypto identity and financial infrastructure created by Sam Altman to face the challenges of what he calls the “Intelligence Age”. Building on science and technology studies, this paper examines how sociotechnical fictions are instrumentalised to enable both the emergence of this technology and broader cyberlibertarian politics. These fictions, forms of imagination produced within science and technology but unrecognised as such due to …
Computer Science (10 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works) · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)