CSE590W: Accessibility Research Seminar
Instructors
Who can attend? CREATE members and students at any level who are excited about topics of Time, Disability, and Access. Those who can't register directly for the course should reach out to Aashaka or Gina.
Seminar Expectations
Please remember to help us create an inclusive, respectful, and accessible environment for all participants. This means many things but some examples are: taking turns when speaking, identifying yourself while speaking, remembering to do the reading if any is required, listen and avoid assuming you know what others experience; do the work to teach yourself and learn together; check in regularly; and let others speak before speaking again.
To sign up for the seminar and mailing list after the first week of the quarter, please email Aashaka at aashakad@cs.washington.edu.
Seminar Format
This quarter, we will explore crip notions of time. Each week, we will be examining one aspect of technology and/or tech culture through the lens of crip time. We will be engaging with disability studies theories as well as other forms of popular media. Please be sure to do the readings before class and engage respectfully in our discussions. Please note the below schedule is tentative -- check the mailing list announcement for confirmed readings and links to accessible copies.
Schedule
9/30/24: Introduction
Welcome! Go over the expectations and schedule for the course.
10/7/24: Setting the Stage: Time and Access
Readings:
- Price: Crip Spacetime Chapter 2: Time
- Samuels: Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time
10/14/24: Self-Care
Readings:
- Kim and Schalk: Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care
- Hershey: Dreaming to Decolonize: An Excerpt from Rest is Resistence
- Sherwood: Is there time for self care in a climate emergency?
10/21/24: Attention Economy
Readings:
- Forlano: Data Rituals in Intimate Infrastructures
- Odell: How to do Nothing Chapter 4: Exercises in Attention
10/28/24: Slow Scholarship
Readings:
- Mountz et al: For Slow Scholarship: a Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective ACtion in the Neoliberal University
- Meyerhoff and Noterman: Revolutionary Scholarship by Any Speed Necessary: Slow or Fast but for the End of This World
- Optional: Explore this collection of alter-academies put together by Shannon Mattern
11/4/24: Reflecting on Research Methods
Readings:
- (Tentative) Oogies and Desjardins: A temporal vocabulary of Design Events for Research through Design
- (Tentative) Benford et al.:From interaction to trajectories: designing coherent journeys through user experiences
11/11/24: Holiday
No seminar.
11/18/24: Strategies for Survival
Readings:
- (Tentative) Johnson et al.: Resisting Normality with Cultural Accessibility and Slow Technology
- (Tentative) Katzman et al.: Everything is down to the minute’: clock time, crip time and the relational work of self-managing attendant services
12/2/24: Closing Thoughts
Readings:
- Kafer: After Crip, Crip Afters