Greetings from Silicon Heaven : Postcards from the IoT Afterlife

Primlani, Namrata and Paris Darzentas, Dimitrios and Lindley, Joseph and Coulton, Paul and Sailaja, Neelima and Urquhart, Lachlan and Castle-Green, Teresa and Stead, Michael and Lechelt, Susan and Owen, Violet and Dubey, Nidhi (2024) Greetings from Silicon Heaven : Postcards from the IoT Afterlife. In: NordiCHI '24 Adjunct : NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. ACM, SWE. ISBN 9798400709654

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Abstract

As the importance of minimising waste and increasing sustainability increase, exploring the design matters impacting the transience of digital technologies has become a key concern. In this workshop we will explore this through the metaphorical lens of the lives, deaths, and afterlives of electronic objects. The workshop creatively engage with this by participants creating obituaries and postcards from the afterlife of IoT objects. This will help us question the emotional, ethical, aesthetic and ecological implications of objects reaching the end of their life. Drawing upon our work for the EPSRC Fixing the Future Project, we anticipate that the discussions and collaborations that emerge through the workshop will generate design themes that contribute to the wider agendas and communities advocating for the Right-to-Repair of IoT devices globally.