There will be shuttle bus transportation from the Dream Inn to the UCSC Haybarn. Pickup times are 5:00 and 5:30 pm. Here's a map of the pickup location.
Local attendees will enjoy dinner and have the chance to engage with a handful of local UC Santa Cruz research demos, followed by a conversation between Donna Haraway and Fred Turner.
HttF is honored to host this ‘fireside chat’ style conversation–Haraway’s work has had a powerful influence on many thinkers in the Human Computer Interaction and Design fields, and resonates with key themes to be taken up at the event, which include more-than-humanness, plurality of humanness, ways of knowing, and reflective practices with artificial intelligence (AI). We are delighted that Fred Turner has agreed to engage Haraway in conversation–Turner’s early work reflecting on the rise of cyberculture in the midst of regional counterculture action resonates with HttF’s situating our discussion of the past/present/future of HCI/design work here in Santa Cruz, another longstanding nexus of countercultural thought.
Donna and Fred will begin with a few initial remarks, and then Fred will engage Donna in an extended conversation tracing the development of her thought and work from her early engagements with feminist technoculture to her most recent work on inter-species socialites.
Donna Haraway is a professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies and antiracist multispecies studies. She has also contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a contributor to contemporary ecological feminism. Her work criticizes anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism, emphasizes the distributed co-organizing powers of nonhuman processes, and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking ethical practices.
Fred Turner is a cultural historian who focuses on how new media technologies have changed American life since World War II. He is the author of a number of books, including From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism and most recently, with Mary Beth Meehan, Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America.
There will be shuttle bus transportation back to the Dream Inn.
Coffee and breakfast will be served during registration
The General Chairs will welcome attendees and introduce the symposium’s aims and agenda.
10:00 am Core voice talk: Paul Dourish
10:30 am Paper presentations:
11:00 am Break
11:20 am Core voice talk: Kia Höök
11:50 am Paper presentations:
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12.20 Roundtable discussion
This panel will be moderated by Raquel Robinson, as one of the theme’s chairs.
2:30 pm Core voice talk: Terry Winograd
3:00 pm Paper presentations:
3:30 pm Roundtable discussion
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This panel will be moderated by Nik Martelaro, as one of the theme’s chairs.
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The symposium’s first interactive forum will start with a round of lightning talks (1-minute micro presentations) where all presenters will have a chance to briefly introduce their work. Following, we will move to the presentation area where presenters and other attendees will have a chance to engage in informal conversations around each author’s presentation space. Coffee and snacks will be served during the forum. This interactive forum will feature the following works related to the New ways of knowing, Reflective practices with AI, and Plurality of Humanness themes of the symposium:
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This interactive forum will be moderated by the chairs of the themes New ways of knowing, Reflective practices with AI, and Plurality of Humanness who are present.Â
We will host an informal conversation where attendees will be invited to share their thoughts about Days 1 & 2 of the symposium. Coffee and breakfast will be served
The symposium’s second interactive forum will start with a round of lightning talks (1-minute micro presentations) where all presenters will have a chance to briefly introduce their work. Following, we will move to the presentation area where presenters and other attendees will have a chance to engage in informal conversations around each author’s presentation space. This interactive forum will feature the following works related to the More-than-humanness theme of the symposium:
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This interactive forum will be moderated by the chairs of the More-than-humanness theme.
10:30 am Core voice talk: Ron Wakkary
11:00 am Paper presentations:
12:00 pm Roundtable discussion
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This panel will be moderated by Andy Quitmeyer, as one of the theme’s chairs.
1:30 pm Core voice talk: Shaowen Bardzell
2:00 pm Paper presentations:
2:45 pm Roundtable discussion
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This panel will be moderated by Sarah Fox, as one of the theme’s chairs.
We will host an open conversation where people can share their takeaways from the symposium and discuss their ideas and expectations for Halfway to the Future moving forward. We hope to consolidate the key take-aways from the symposium and set the foundations for its next edition(s). Coffee and snacks will be served during the conversation.
