Nadia Campo Woytuk / Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard / Karey Helms
SE/NO/US
Nadia Campo Woytuk (she/her) is a designer, artist and researcher exploring ecofeminist perspectives of technologies. She makes use of body-centric design methods, participatory design, digital fabrication and new media art. She is currently exploring more-than-human design of menstrual care products and composting menstrual blood in a collaborative project at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and will soon begin a PhD in Interaction Design with a focus on women’s health. Previously, Nadia has worked on topics of software art, postcolonial computing, and textile and soft materials. Website: nadiacw.com | twitter: @nadiacw
Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard (she/her) is an interaction designer and design researcher exploring critical-feminist design of intimate technologies for menstrual and sexual health. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Design at AHO The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She has a PhD degree in Interaction Design from Aarhus University, Denmark. Website: www.mljuul.com | twitter: @mljuul
Karey Helms (she/her) is an interaction designer and PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her research explores the more-than-human implications of technological assemblages that proactively operate on the behalf of humans by designing within intimate settings of care. Such situations are often difficult to quantify and where an unintended consequence of technology can be revealing, shameful, or devastating for a diversity of bodily beings. This includes designing within queer scales of human bodily fluids, such as urinary infrastructures and breastmilk entanglements. Within autobiographic and speculative design methods, she draws upon feminist new materialisms and queer theories to implicate herself and unsettle bodily boundaries for a more careful design of technology. Website: kareyhelms.com | twitter: @kareyhelms
Workshop: Scaling Bodily Fluids for Utopian Fabulations through Collage-Making WATCH