Crip Ecologies: Designing with Data across Bodies and Worlds

Interaction design and HCI have traditionally focused on the body and the environment as separate, discrete sites of operation.How can we reach across these boundaries to think and design with their entangled relations?In my dissertation work, I bring together critical disability studies and more-than-human scholarship through creative and material engagements with data to design transcorporeally across bodies and environments.Specifically, I share three design projects that use research through design with first-person methods to explore more-than-human entanglements through the lens of chronic illness and bring the environment into relation with the body.Through this, my work seeks to build alliances between disability and ecological justice and open new possibilities of engaging with environmental problems through design in an uncertain time.