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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the fashion industry, impacting various stages of the fashion lifecycle and offering promises of enhanced operational efficiency, personalized consumer experiences, and contributions to sustainability and innovation. This paper outlines the main trends, implications, constraints, and potential risks associated with AI in fashion design and production. In particular, the paper delves into biases in AI-powered systems, emphasizing data, algorithmic, and transparency gaps that can perpetuate discrimination. Bringing ethics and pluralism into AI-powered design, the paper introduces intersectional feminism and feminist design principles, which can help envisioning a more inclusive, equitable, and unbiased fashion discourse. In conclusion, the paper contends that feminist design principles can inspire the development of more inclusive and ethical AI-powered fashion. By challenging norms, promoting diverse representations, and incorporating user perspectives, feminist design can contribute to a socially responsible and equitable future for fashion technology.

Introduction to dossier. Urbanism, arquitectures and feminist design

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In this article, we address data visualization as a political artifact in light of the work of the Observatory of Data and Statistics on Gender and Intersectionalities (ODEGI). We show how a feminist approach explores political dimensions in data and turns data visualization into a tool of subversion and resistance against the systems of oppression, in an unequal society like the Chilean. The reflections in this article seek to create dialogue around the question of how data visualization can be transformed into a tool of non-oppression and liberation, from a feminist approach. In line with this, the first part of the article provides a brief contextualization of the political and ethical attributes of data visualization. Then, we reflect on a framework that allows us to understand it as a feminist tool. We will finally delve into the ODEGI case and our use of data visualization to contribute to the fight against patriarchy and other systems of oppression, giving concrete examples of the categories of analysis we use in our design and decision processes.

In this article, we address data visualization as a political artifact in light of the work of the Observatory of Data and Statistics on Gender and Intersectionalities (ODEGI). We show how a feminist approach explores political dimensions in data and turns data visualization into a tool of subversion and resistance against the systems of oppression, in an unequal society like the Chilean. The reflections in this article seek to create dialogue around the question of how data visualization can be transformed into a tool of non-oppression and liberation, from a feminist approach. In line with this, the first part of the article provides a brief contextualization of the political and ethical attributes of data visualization. Then, we reflect on a framework that allows us to understand it as a feminist tool. We will finally delve into the ODEGI case and our use of data visualization to contribute to the fight against patriarchy and other systems of oppression, giving concrete examples of the categories of analysis we use in our design and decision processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a world where technologies often serve to amplify the persistent rendering of disability as an undesired deficit, what we need are empowering utopias concerning bodies, disabilities and assistive technologies. Specifically, I use Barad's article 'Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings' to illustrate how we might speculate on technologies that understand disabled bodies as affording potentials. The Transreal Tracing Device reimagines our bodies as surfaces of possibility, encouraging explorations into how disabled bodies do and could look like. The speculative device offers an opportunity for positive renegotiations of disabled bodies as malleable and desirable – as ontologically indeterminate and transcendent. In traversing theoretical approaches and using them to design queer-feminist utopias centring disabled people, the concept challenges dominant notions of disabilities and assistive technologies alike. I close by discussing implications for ability-based, participatory but even more so self-determined design, and how to shift the focus of disabled technologies towards potential, from support to appreciation, from isolation to kinship and, ultimately, from shame to pride. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using both interviews and participant observations, this article examines feminist design initiatives in hacker and maker cultures, unpacking their possible contribution to a world of more equitable digital technology development, use, and re(de)construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Devices equipped with sensors to track mobility, such as through Global Position Systems (GPS) and accelerometery, are increasingly being used for research. Following Canadian, US, and International guidelines there is a need to give special consideration when conducting research with vulnerable populations. This paper examines specific ethical concerns for conducting research with mobile sensing devices for use by vulnerable populations, considering aspects of both research design and research process. Drawing on insights from feminist design and aligned fields, such as participatory design and action research, we contend that any research design and process for working with vulnerable populations must be developed in collaboration with the particular groups and communities who are part of the research. As part of this process of collaborative research, we discuss risks in terms of the lack of control over data associated with choosing commercial devices, as well as practicality and obtrusiveness of devices for the wearer. We also discuss the significance of informed consent and refusal and issues relating to security and safety during research. As part of the collaborative research design and process, we argue that participants should be given as much control over their data as possible. Based on this discussion, we provide recommendations for researchers to consider, which are broadly relevant for research using mobile sensing devices but particularly significant in relation to vulnerable populations. • Ethical considerations of mobile sensing research neglect vulnerable populations. • Feminist design principles help frame ethical considerations of mobile sensing work. • Recommendations for ethical mobile sensing research with vulnerable groups considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]