Rachel Clarke
Senior Lecturer
I am an interdisciplinary design researcher working between interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI), feminist science and technology studies (STS). My work focuses on the gendered politics of participatory design practice for design livelihoods in international development, socio-technical infrastructures of material resources and smart urbanisation in more-than-human worlds. My current research projects are funded by the British Academy, EPSRC and Research England. Projects include ISSRAR: Young Palestinians’ Sustainable Development, Visualising Ugandan Youth Futures and More than Human Data Interactions.
Prior to joining Open Lab, I was a Global Challenges Research Fellow at the Centre for International Development and CoCreate at Northumbria University.
I completed my PhD at Culture Lab, Newcastle University in 2014, working between the School of Computing and the International Centre for Cultural Heritage Studies, focussing on the role of socially engaged arts and craft for wearable IoT technologies with immigrant women’s social care groups. I trained in the visual and performing arts, collaborating with national and international theatre companies and arts organisations for over a decade prior to starting a research career.
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2018
Avoiding Ecocidal Smart Cities: Participatory Design for More-than-Human Futures
2018 – PDC '18 Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference
More-than-human urban futures: speculative participatory design to avoid ecocidal smart cities
2018 – PDC '18 Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference
2016
Situated Encounters with Socially Engaged Art in Community-Based Design
2016 – 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2016
Re-configuring Participatory Media for Citizen Elders in Urban Planning
2016 – Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Media Architecture Biennale
Urban HCI: (Re)adapting the city together
2016 – DIS 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse
2014
Socially engaged arts practice in HCI
2014 – CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '14)