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General topics: menstrual cycles, menstrual care, intimate and sexual health, biomaterials, feminist HCI, data feminism, biodata and biosensors, more-than-human design, textiles & craft, queer perspectives

Methods: research through design, cultural probes, prototyping, speculative design, wearables, digital fabrication, interviews, workshops, biomaterials, crafting, textiles, soft materials

Some specific topics/ideas:

• Intimate sensors and sensors for the menstrual cycle. Researching and prototyping custom wearable sensors for sensing temperature, pH, glucose, mucus conductivity, among other things.
  • Example project: Designing and building a prototype of a wearable temperature sensor. A study with users.
  • Example project: Hosting workshops and creating speculative designs of potential new sensors.
• Intimate data from menstrual apps, fertility apps, or smart sex toys. Using intimate data to make feminist visualizations/representations. Data feminism. Interviews, workshops, prototyping.
  • Example project: Study with users of smart sex toys. Interviews, workshops. Data visualizations and representations of intimate sexual data. For example, users of the Lioness vibrator.
• More-than-human design. Decentering the human in the design process and instead focusing on the needs of other species, like animals, plants, microbes.
  • Example project: Prototype tools for encouraging microbial activity in the soil, in the context of gardening
• Design for supporting PCOS and irregular cycles
• Design for sexual & reproductive health of LGBTQ+ communities
  • Example project: Workshops with LGBTQ+ users of intimate technologies
• Food an the menstrual cycle
  • Example project: Designing tools for syncing menstrual cycle tracking to diet/food nutrition. Unpacking the tensions between wellness trends such as detox, clean eating, and pressure and labor women feel to regulate and normalize their cycles via diet.
• Menstrual cycles and environmental pollution → raising awareness of how these two are connected. Unpacking the tension between individual responsibility to avoid toxins and the ever-growing burden of women to live a “clean” life.
  • Example project: Speculative designs for pollution & plastic toxicity awareness
  • Example project: Design and develop a prototype that tracks menstrual cycles and environmental pollution
• Biomaterials and menstrual care
  • Example project: expanding Biomenstrual project, creating new prototypes of biodegradable menstrual care products
• Vaginal microbiome
  • Example project: designing a toolkit for noticing vaginal microbiome, culturing petri dishes, making pH biosensors
• Designing to support and destigmatize the experience of abortion
  • Example project: designing a care kit/package for people to use at home when experiencing a medical abortion
• Menstrual cycles sharing
  • Example project: designing a prototype of a device or wearable for sharing menstrual tracking with partners, friends. reflecting on data privacy.
• Menstrual cycles and light
  • Example project: designing for syncing light and menstrual cycles, unpacking tensions between spiritual/magical beliefs and scientific approaches.
• Working with Solo (collaborator company)
  • Example project: helping prototype and designing workshops for exploring the sensations of Solo, a sensory device that combines vibrations, heat and cold. Use of soma design methods
• Craft & technologies. Use of knitting, crochet, embroidery, textiles, jewelery making, ceramics, collage
  • Example project: Data representations using textiles
  • Example project: Crafting jewelery wearables for tracking biodata