Greetings from Silicon Heaven: Postcards from the IoT Afterlife
Authors: 
Namrata Primlani, Dimitrios Paris Darzentas, Joseph Lindley, 
Paul Coulton, Neelima Sailaja, Lachlan D Urquhart, Teresa Castle-Green, 
Michael Stead, Susan Lechelt, Violet Owen, Nidhi DubeyAuthors Info & Claims
Article No.: 58, Pages 1 - 8
Abstract
As the importance of minimising e-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 engages with this by participants creating obituaries for IoT objects and postcards from the afterlife that 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.
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