IMAGINARIES OF WORK:
New Technological Narratives of Tending, Caring, & Maintaining
A design research study lead by Ben Hooker to generate “hybrid drawings” containing a mix of people, data, and objects that nuance discussions of future techno-maintenance work.
With support from Intel.
Research Lead: Ben Hooker
Research Assistant: Stephanie Marie Cedeño
Student Researchers: Alan Amaya, Arianne Borgeson, Yining Gao
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[Image Alt-Text:
Below, a screenshot of a Zoom call where Ariana has shared her screen of a GoogleSlides presentation. On the right, our thumbnails show Ben, Tim, Ariana, & I listening to Yining explain the abstract illustration she has made. Yining’s drawing is an illustrative collage of node workers working within a future interface, maintaining the data that is constantly input and output.]
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With support from Intel.
Research Lead: Ben Hooker
Research Assistant: Stephanie Marie Cedeño
Student Researchers: Alan Amaya, Arianne Borgeson, Yining Gao
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[Image Alt-Text:
Below, a screenshot of a Zoom call where Ariana has shared her screen of a GoogleSlides presentation. On the right, our thumbnails show Ben, Tim, Ariana, & I listening to Yining explain the abstract illustration she has made. Yining’s drawing is an illustrative collage of node workers working within a future interface, maintaining the data that is constantly input and output.]
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be88696238c855483c94665fe98b182ae91676d526e5e41aac4f60b85aed5358/Maintaining-data-Systems-w-Node-Workers-imaginaries-of-work.png)