Greetings from silicon heaven: Postcards from the IoT afterlife

Namrata  Primlani; Dimitrios Paris Darzentas; Joseph Lindley; Paul Coulton; Neelima Sailaja; Lachlan Urquhart; Mike Stead; Teresa  Castle-Green; Susan Lechelt; Violet Owen; Nidhi Dubey

doi:10.1145/3677045.3685474

Greetings from silicon heaven: Postcards from the IoT afterlife

Namrata Primlani, Dimitrios Paris Darzentas, Joseph Lindley, Paul Coulton, Neelima Sailaja, Lachlan Urquhart, Mike Stead, Teresa Castle-Green , Susan Lechelt, Violet Owen, Nidhi Dubey

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As the importance of minimising e-waste and increasing sustainability increase, exploring the design matters impacting the transience of digital technologies has become a key concern. In this workshop we will explore this through the metaphorical lens of the lives, deaths, and afterlives of electronic objects. The workshop creatively engages with this by participants creating obituaries for IoT objects and postcards from the afterlife that will help us question the emotional, ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of objects reaching the end of their life. Drawing upon our work for the EPSRC Fixing the Future Project, we anticipate that the discussions and collaborations that emerge through the workshop will generate design themes that contribute to the wider agendas and communities advocating for the Right-to-Repair of IoT devices globally.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NordiCHI '24 Adjunct
Subtitle of host publication	Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Place of Publication	Uppsala, Sweden
Publisher	ACM Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-8
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9798400709654
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685474
Publication status	Published - 13 Oct 2024
Event	NordiCHI '24: Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Uppsala, Sweden Duration: 13 Oct 2024 → 16 Oct 2024

Conference

Conference	NordiCHI '24
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Uppsala
Period	13/10/24 → 16/10/24

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Internet of Things
e-waste
design fiction
design workshop
speculative design
participatory design
more-than-human design

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10.1145/3677045.3685474

PrimlaniEtal2024GreetingsFromSiliconHeavenAccepted author manuscript, 449 KBLicence: Creative Commons: Attribution (CC-BY)

Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT
Luger, E. & Terras, M.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/05/22 → 30/03/25
Project: Research

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Primlani, N., Darzentas, D. P., Lindley, J., Coulton, P., Sailaja, N., Urquhart, L., Stead, M., Castle-Green , T., Lechelt, S., Owen, V., & Dubey, N. (2024). Greetings from silicon heaven: Postcards from the IoT afterlife. In NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 1-8). ACM Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685474

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Greetings from silicon heaven: Postcards from the IoT afterlife. / Primlani, Namrata ; Darzentas, Dimitrios Paris; Lindley, Joseph et al.
NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Uppsala, Sweden: ACM Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. p. 1-8.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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