Call for Participation

To participate, submit a 2-3 page paper (more details below) to: lata@ itu.dk

Deadline: 28. August 2022 (AoE)

We have a few more spots available, send in your submission if you’re interested in participating.

Different aspects and phases of reproductive bodies have become of interest in HCI research and design, such as menstruation, in/fertility, menopause and menarche. However, reproductive health is often equalized with women’s health, resulting in essentializing understandings of reproduction, bodies and gender. It is therefore important to reflect on how we understand reproductive bodies and how we account for their multiplicity, including male, non-binary, queer, trans* and infertile bodies as well as the ways they are entangled in interpersonal and more-than-human relations. To open this conversation, this one-day workshop invites researchers and designers working with or being interested in reproductive bodies and bodily experiences including, but not limited to, in/fertility, menopause, menstruation, or transitions, and on feminist perspectives on bodies as well as bodily experiences, more broadly. The workshop will invite participants to unpack and expand current practices around these themes and imagine inclusive future directions. It will be structured around three themes exploring different aspects of design practices related to reproductive bodies:

  1. Rethinking approaches/methods we use to understand the different pluralities and temporalities of reproductive bodies
  2. Exploring feminist perspectives on bodily data of reproductive health
  3. Discussing emerging practices for designing with and for reproductive bodies

We welcome submissions from interested participants in the form of a short description (2-3 pages) of their work around reproductive health or research that focuses on bodies and bodily experiences with a focus on feminist approaches.

👉 We also welcome autobiographical/ethnographical explorations of one’s own lived experiences of inhabiting reproductive bodies.

👉 Furthermore, we gladly receive contributions that are interested in exploring feminist theories in relation to bodies without having done prior research in this area.

The workshop outcomes, in the form of speculative sketches, collages, and stories, will be collected and published in an online catalog, which will be circulated to a broader audience after the conference.