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Design AsDesign As HumanityDesign As Humanity features Lee Moreau in conversation with Susan Fabry, Laura Forlano, Mahsa Ershadi, and Sheng-Hung Lee. Follow Design Observer on Instagram to keep up and see even more Design As content. A full transcript of the show can be found hereCheck out the Design Observer hosted job board.Season two of Design As draws from recordings taken at the Design Research Society 2024 Conference hosted in Boston in June 2024.2025-02-0447 min
This Machine Kills359. We Are All Cyborgs (ft. Danya Glabau, Laura Forlano)We are joined by Danya Glabau and Laura Forlano, authors of Cyborg, a new book that explores how this archetype of sci-fi stories is also a critical theory for understanding the tangle of socio-technical relations that constitute our lives. The cyborg helps us think in terms of embodiment and environments, break down boundaries and barriers, and trace the dialectics of control and freedom that come with being cyborgs.
••• Cyborg | Danya Glabau, Laura Forlano https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
••• Danya on Twitter: https://x.com/allergyPhD
••• Laura on Twitter: https://x.com/laura4lano
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Urgent Futures with Jesse DamianiLaura Forlano & Danya Glabau: Living Well with Machines, Real-World Cyborg Futures, and Critical Cyborg Literacy | Urgent Futures #14Welcome to the Urgent Futures podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each week, I sit down with leading thinkers whose research, concepts, and questions clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.Cyborg. When you hear the word, you probably think of something like Blade Runner, Westworld, or the Terminator. Shiny tech with a dash of dystopia. But what if I told you there’s a totally different way of thinking about and understanding cyborgs? This other way of understanding cyborgs, cyborg theory, also seeks to understand the relationship between humans and machines—but it’s...2024-07-031h 42
The Podcast for Social ResearchPodcast for Social Research, Episode 79: CYBORG — A Conversation on Technology, Feminism, and the Future of a ConceptHave 21st century technologies—from smartphones to medical devices to the commonplace use of artificial intelligence—made cyborgs of us all? In this episode of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live at BISR Central, BISR faculty Rebecca Ariel Porte sits down with fellow faculty Danya Glabau and co-author Laura Forlano to parse what the latter, in their recent book Cyborg (MIT Press), have termed “critical cyborg literacy”: a lens through which to critically examine the constitutive role technology plays in the ways we think, behave, know, and interact. Glabau and Forlano begin with a synthetic overview of the history...2024-05-171h 12
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsCyborg: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) by Danya Glabau, Laura ForlanoPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753688to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Cyborg: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Author: Danya Glabau, Laura Forlano
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Release date: April 9, 2024
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and engineering education, Laura...2024-04-094h 09
Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsCyborg: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) by Danya Glabau, Laura ForlanoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cyborg: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Author: Danya Glabau, Laura Forlano Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and engineering education...2024-04-0930 min
Unleash Your Imagination, Through Free AudiobookCyborg: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Audiobook by Danya GlabauListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 753688
Title: Cyborg: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Author: Danya Glabau, Laura Forlano
Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:09:03
Language: English
Release date: 04-09-24
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Genres: Politics, Political Advocacy
Summary:
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and...2024-04-094h 09
The Good RobotFeminism, Disability, and the Politics of Technology with Laura ForlanoIn this episode we chat to Laura Forlano, Associate Professor of Design at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology. This is a special episode because Laura reads us some of her work on life as a Type 1 diabetic, or in her words, a disabled cyborg calibrated to an insulin pump. Laura’s writing gives us a different kind of insight into good technology, tech that in her case literally keeps her alive, but can also let you down in alarming ways. 2023-05-2321 min
COVIDCallsEP #421 - 2.21.2022 - Danya Glabau Returns to COVIDCallsToday I welcome medical anthropologist Danya Glabau, author of the forthcoming book Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care back to COVIDCalls.
Danya Glabau is an STS scholar and medical anthropologist, and Industry Assistant Professor and Director of the Science and Technology Studies program in the department of Technology, Culture, and Society at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her research examines health activism, the political economy of biomedicine, and how human bodies become valuable data.
Her book Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care (University of Minnesota Press 2022), examines the reproductive...2022-02-231h 03
DiabreadicAnadama Bread & Diabetic Algorithms of Care/Harm w/ Dr. Laura Forlano"This thing is keeping me alive, but it's also ruining my life"Diabetic treatment devices, such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), make SO MANY things about life with Diabetes easier. They are also... built by people, and can make some everyday things more complicated. Dr. Laura Forlano, Associate Professor of Design and Director of the Critical Futures Lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology, talks about her complicated relationship with her devices and the ways that design-thinking can help us make sense of it--and imagine a more just future.2022-02-091h 18
Data & SocietyBecoming Data Episode 4: Data & InfrastructureScholars Laura Forlano and Ranjit Singh join our host, Natalie Kerby, to explore the different infrastructures that data interacts with and flows through. Whose values get embedded into the algorithms that increasingly govern our lives? How are these data infrastructures complicating what it means to be human?Ranjit Singh (@datasociety) is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Data & Society.Laura Forlano (@laura4lano) is associate professor at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology."Becoming Data" is co-produced by Data & Society and Public Books.
2021-06-0754 min
Public Books 101Data and Infrastructure (with Laura Forlano & Ranjit Singh)Scholars Laura Forlano and Ranjit Singh join our host, Natalie Kerby, to explore the different infrastructures that data interacts with and flows through. Whose values get embedded into the algorithms that increasingly govern our lives? How are these data infrastructures complicating what it means to be human?
This season, "Becoming Data," is a partnership between the magazine Public Books and the research institution Data & Society. Follow us on Twitter @PublicBooks and @DataSociety.
View full episode notes and a transcript here.2021-06-0754 min
Diseño 4.0Posthumanism and becoming Cyborg with Laura Forlano (english)En este episodio tenemos una conversación con la PhD. Laura Forlano, platicamos sobre investigación de diseño para desarrollo tecnológico y sobre pensar en diseño centrado en los objetos en lugar de en las personas. Podras encontrar la transcripcion del episodio en español aqui: http://bit.ly/posthumanismoydiseno
Mas información sobre Laura Forlano en:
Medium: https://medium.com/@lef45
Web page: https://lauraforlano.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laura4lano
Nos encanta escucharte, puedes continuar la conversación dejando un mensaje e...2021-01-1342 minCOVIDCallsEP #137 - 9.29.2020 - The Pandemic and the Patient's Experience of IllnessToday I speak with medical anthropologist Danya Glabeau and ID social scientist Emily Rogers.
Danya Glabau is an STS scholar and medical anthropologist, and Industry Assistant Professor and Director of the Science and Technology Studies program in the department of Technology, Culture, and Society at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She has also been Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research since 2015. She earned her PhD from the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Cornell University. Her research examines health activism, the political economy of biomedicine, and how human bodies become valuable data.
2020-09-301h 13
Charlottesville Community EngagementSeptember 29, 2020: New pandemic metric places region "at moderate community transmission"Today’s show is brought to you by the dozens of people who have decided to help pay for it through either a monthly contribution through Patreon or a subscription through Substack. Thank you for supporting community journalism and the launch of this new venture.* The Virginia Department of Health has launched a new dashboard to give the public a better glimpse into how the pandemic is affecting different parts of the state. The COVID-19 website now has daily updates for how each region of the state is doing, a weekly update on something called “trans...2020-09-2909 min
Diseño y Diáspora118. Emerging technologies and alternative futures (EEUU). An interview with Laura ForlanoLaura Forlano es investigadora en diseño interesada en tecnologías emergentes y futuros alternativos. Ella es profesora en el Institute of Design en el Intituto de tecnología de Illinois y ahí dirige el Critical Futures Lab, laboratorio de futuros críticos. En esta charla nos cuenta de su investigación en diseño en el área de movilidad y de un trabajo autoetnográfico que está haciendo midiéndose a sí misma con sensores de algunos dispositivos médicos. Ella investiga las conexiones íntimas entre lo humano y lo no humano, La charla es en inglés.
2020-04-0944 min
MEX Design TalkLaura Forlano, Associate Professor, IIT Institute of DesignLaura Forlano's diverse work as a writer, teacher and consultant bridges social sciences, design and emerging technology. She talks to MEX founder Marek Pawlowski about the wide range of projects she's involved with, from a book imagining what the Bauhaus might look like if it was practicing today through to the impact of autonomous vehicles on urban architecture. The conversation touches on techniques for communicating futuristic design ambitions to the practical challenges in encouraging positive collaboration across disciplines.Get in touch with feedback and questions @mexfeed on Twitter or email designtalk@mobileuserexperience.com.Show notes with links to everything discussed...2019-03-2851 min
Seminario Sociedad, Diseño y TecnologíaSeminario SDT#5: Laura ForlanoQuinta sesión realizada el jueves 10 de enero de 2019 en el campus Lo Contador PUC, Santiago. Contamos con la presentación de Laura Forlano, directora del Critical Futures Lab y profesora asociada del Instituto de Diseño del Illinois Institute of Technology. Su presentación se tituló "Plans and Situated (Algorithmic) Actions: Networked Medical Devices as Sites of Feminist Technoscience or Encountering the More Than Human in the Middle of the Night". Laura abordó sobre sus más recientes trabajos que se basan en una concepción posthumanista o más-que-humana y que apuntan hacia una aproximación feminista del diseño y l...2019-01-101h 41
The Smart Community PodcastSCP E19: Designing for the Socio-Technical, with Laura ForlanoIn this episode of The Smart City Podcast, I interviewed social scientist and design researcher Laura Forlano. Laura and I had a really great discussion about the socio-technical aspects of design and how humans and machines come together. Laura talks about a number of her projects ranging from driverless technology to reimagining work and going back in history to think about technology. She is also very passionate about the active engagement of citizens and rethinking that way we do this engagement through design. We also discuss about the differences in the imagined futures of technology verses the reality.
Find the...2018-04-2629 min
The Idealist.org PodcastsFreeing the Internet: Outdoors and Online with NYCwirelessIn the latest Community Podcast, we look at an organization that's working to bring the internet to all New Yorkers, in and outside of their apartments. Most of us think of using the internet as a solitary, indoor activity. NYCwireless thinks differently. By "lighting up" public parks with free wi-fi access, they're allowing New Yorkers to connect outdoors and helping everyone to create and participate in a new community.We talk with Dana Spiegel and Laura Forlano from NYCwireless about their mission and projects. We also look at the challenges they face as they work to make internet acc...2008-08-2516 min