SARAH HOMEWOOD
This NordiCHI 2022 workshop "Speculations on Feminist Reproductive Health Technologies" invited participants to discuss possibilities of designing with and for reproductive bodies by taking feminist vantage points to rethink approaches to reproductive health and broadening understandings of reproductive bodies beyond the category of women’s health.
Through collective and speculative explorations, we found new directions within reproductive health research, to disrupt binary understandings of reproductive bodies, and to explore interpersonal/relational issues when talking about in/fertility that extend beyond the female body. The aim of the workshop was to bring together HCI researchers that are working with or are interested in bodies and bodily experiences including, but not limited to, in/fertility, menopause, menstruation, transitions, interpersonal as well as more-than-human relations, and are motivated to unpack and expand current practices, but also to imagine inclusive directions of design and research in these areas.
In collaboration with Lara Reime, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Joo Young Park, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Deepika Yadav and Vasiliki Tsaknaki.