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DIS 2026
Best paperFrom Nowhere to Now-here: Centering Black Senses of Place and Placemaking in Speculative Design
Lu, A.J., Umoren-Olorunnisomo, C., Crutcher, C.Speculative design risks reproducing three layers of “nowhereness”: rendering Black lives out of place, making Black futures nowhere to locate, and speculating from/to nowhere. Centering impacted communities’ situated senses of place and existing labor of placemaking is critical in the shift from nowhere to now-here. That is, the alternative is happening here and now, and it is already happening.
C&C 2026Reading Children's Books and Imagining Together: Knowledge Dissemination as Collective Community Building in Design Research
Lu, A.J. & Crutcher, C.If we are all relational beings, how are we related to one another in the participatory speculative design space? How does the encounter of differences shape who we are, what we know, and how we imagine bottom-up imaginaries together?
FAcct 2026How We Are Cursed in Data Disclosure: Privacy Sensemaking in AI Fortune-Telling among Young Chinese
Zhu, S. & Lu, A.J.If we are all relational beings, how are we related to one another in the participatory speculative design space? How does the encounter of differences shape who we are, what we know, and how we imagine bottom-up imaginaries together?
CSCW 2026Impasse of Data-Drivenness: Bureaucratic Data Work and Reproduced Siloed Governance in Coordinating Smart Cities
Lu, A.J. & Sun, Y.If we are all relational beings, how are we related to one another in the participatory speculative design space? How does the encounter of differences shape who we are, what we know, and how we imagine bottom-up imaginaries together?
CSCW 2026In the Meantime of Informal Care: Navigating Temporal Tensions in Timebanking
Sun, Y., Ma, X., Lu, A.J. If we are all relational beings, how are we related to one another in the participatory speculative design space? How does the encounter of differences shape who we are, what we know, and how we imagine bottom-up imaginaries together?
UbiComp/ISWC 2026Ubiquitous Lingering Technologies: What's Left Behind by the Past “Proximate Futures”?
Lu, A.J. & Sun, Y.If we are all relational beings, how are we related to one another in the participatory speculative design space? How does the encounter of differences shape who we are, what we know, and how we imagine bottom-up imaginaries together?