Amanda Windle, Chair
Nerea Cavillo
Priyank Chandra
Laura Forlano
Helene Mialet
Misria Shaik Ali
Teun Zuiderent-Jerak
The Making and Doing Awards Committee worked closely with the Toronto Making and Doing Organising Committee to evaluate all in-person sessions. The Awards Committee awarded five winners and three commendations this year.
Winners
Feminist Theory Theater:by incorporating key ideas of feminist theory into the act of reading a text, this project changes the ways academics “talk about” and “do” reading that could have important implications for how we engage with the complex world we live in.
– Yelena Gluzman, Christina Ashurina Aushana, Sarah Klein
Solar Protocol: for building personalised digital media storage infrastructure through shareable how-to materials (zine) and by doing so enable people to prioritise the personal and the local while circumnavigating the need for big tech infrastructure. The shareable zine enables STS making and doing to go beyond an academic audience.
– Anne Pasek, T?ga Brain, Alex Nathanson, Benedetta Piantella
Clinical Dinner:for a live performance of surgery training through the experience of home cooking, for example by baking derma bread. Juxtaposing the skills of cooking/baking with surgery is a feminist demonstration of making and doing with pedagogic significance.
– Anna Harris, Kaisu Koski, Noemie Soula, and Anne van Veen.
Xcol—an ethnographic inventory: for creating an ethnographic inventory through an open source platform as a way to archive aspects of ethnography that aren’t always shared or shareable.
– Adolfo Estadella, Tomás Criado
Helium Rising:for a creative intervention that brokers public dialogue between a diverse set of stakeholders through collaborative imagination and making. The process shows how complicated and controversial problems can be engaged with through creating spaces of negotiation and expression.
– Noa Bruhis, Elizabeth Keyes, Sakshi Hegde, Kirk Jalbert
Commendations
Relata: for developing a tool that goes beyond explicit citations to explore interpretative non-citations within STS literature. Demonstrated through STS literature was an alternative method for reconfiguring citation practice.
Poets for Science:for a sensory and relational curation of poetic materials and exhibits that bring alternative ways of experiencing science through poetry.
– Charles Malone
Future Perfect:for an interactive adventure whereby participants—be they in bars or a public library—can take on the role of council members in a neighbourly context. An example of democratizing speculative futures.
