qVita: The first two years (2019-20)

Host Institutions: Waterloo, MRU, UIUC, York

Facilities: Games Institute, Waterloo; Department of Communication Arts, Waterloo

Research Partners

Universities: National University of Colombia (UNAL)

Waterloo Region: Green Light Arts, Community Justice Initiatives, Elizabeth Fry Society, Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, InterArts Matrix

International: Tumaco Diocese, Agencia de Modelos “La perla del Pacífico”; Asociación de Reciclaje FENIX; AMSMUD; Institution Educativa Iberia; Fundación TUMAC; the community of the neighborhood Buchelli; DASAN; “Mar es Vida” (Colombia)

Research Groups

Feminist Think Tank (FTT)

Collaborative Digital Heritage Studio (CoDHerS)

The Fountain Collective

Active, Funded Research Projects

Aesthetic Resistance (Feminist Do Media)

Design for Peace

LetUsSpeak

Theatre for Relationality

The Aesthetics of Accessibility

Staging Better Futures (pending grant results)

Haptic Storytelling (pending grant results)

Awards, Appointments, and Promotions

Shana MacDonald — Tenured Associate Professor

Milena Radzikowska — Full Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier 2 (applied)

Brianna Wiens — PhD Candidate

Grants

Kadir, Aynur (PI), Jennifer Roberts-Smith (Co-applicant), and Jean Becker, Paul Cegys, KC Collins, Shana MacDonald, Susan Roy, Glenn Stillar, et al. “Collaborative Digital Heritage Studio (CoDHerS).” Canadian Foundation for Innovation. $325,000. In progress; for submission Feb 15, 2020.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (PI) and Nicole Nolette (Co-applicant). “Staging Better Futures: Anti-racism, decolonization, equity, diversity, and inclusion in theatre in higher education in Canada.” UW HSS Endowment. $6928.21. Submitted; results expected February 2021.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (PI) and The Fountain Collective. “ ‘…the Fountain of Youth’ Aesthetics of Accessibility Design Workshop. Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create – Research and Creation. $16,000. Submitted; results expected in February 2021.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (PI) and The Fountain Collective. “ ‘…the Fountain of Youth’ Aesthetics of Accessibility Design Workshop. Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter Arts Projects. $10,000. Submitted; results expected in February 2021.

MacDonald, Shana (Principal Investigator). 2019. “Building Feminist Toolkits for the Digital Era.” Early Researcher Award 2019. $150,000. Submitted; results expected January 2021.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (Co-applicant). “Incorporating Social Justice into Haptic VR Storytelling.” PI Oliver Schneider. SSHRC/NSERC New Frontiers in Research Fund. $200,000. LOI accepted; full application submitted; results expected in early 2021.

MacDonald, Shana (PI). “Feminist Digital Media (2016-2020): Building Affective and Activist Worlds.” SSHRC Insight Grant. $266,000. Submitted; results expected April 2021.

Wiens, Brianna I. “Reclaiming Digital Space During and After COVID-19: Networked Advocacy and Activism in Times of Crisis.” SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. $90,000. Submitted; results expected in early 2021.

Radzikowska, Milena (Co-applicant). 2020. “Web mapping for collaborative place-based storytelling.” PI: Teresa Dobson. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. $70,500.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (PI). 2020. “ ‘…the Fountain of Youth’ Aesthetics of Accessibility Design Workshop.” Waterloo Region Arts Fund. $7500.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (PI). 2019. “Guarded Girls: Post-performance talk with Senator Kim Pate.” University of Waterloo He For She Sponsorship. May. $1265.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (PI). 2019. “Design for Peace, Tumaco 2019-20.” Global Affairs Canada Emerging Leadership in the Americas Program Faculty Mobility Grant. $7,000.

Radzikowska, Milena (PI). Design for Peace Matching Grant. Mount Royal University. $5,000.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (PI), Fabio Enrique Fajardo Tolosa, Milena Radzikowska (Co-applicants), Paul Cegys, Ivan Jurakic, Shana MacDonald, Stan Ruecker, Jessica Thompson (Collaborators), et al . “Design for Peace (Tumaco) Exhibition and Workshop.” SSHRC Connection 2019. $45,866.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (PI), Matt White (Co-applicant), Carin Lowerison and Stan Ruecker (Collaborators). 2019. “Theatre for Relationality: Increasing Green Light Arts’ Capacity to Engage Waterloo Region Audiences in Action towards Social Justice.” SSHRC Partnership Engage. $24,992.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer and Shana MacDonald. 2019. “Launching the qCollaborative in English and French Canada (Ottawa and Montreal).” Games Institute Research Travel Fund. $5500.

Radzikowska, Milena and Stan Ruecker. 2019. [Two lectures, one workshop]. Games Institute Visiting Scholars Series. $4000.

Books

MacDonald, Shana, Milena Radzikowska, Michelle MacArthur, Brianna I. Wiens, eds. Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices. Lexington Press. In press.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, Milena Radzikowska, and Stan Ruecker, Eds. Prototyping Across the Disciplines: Designing Better Futures. Intellect Books. In press.

Chapters in Books

Radzikowska, M., Kelle, A. & Snell. M. Prototyping in the Motorcycle Shop: The Milking Machine for Text Analysis. In Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M. & J. RobertsSmith (Eds.), Better Futures: How Prototyping Improves the World. Intellect Books, In press.

Dobson, T., Peña, E. & Radzikowska, M. To Design is to Pretend: Observational Modeling and Analysis by Children. In Ruecker, S., Radzikowska, M. and J. RobertsSmith (Eds.), Better Futures: How Prototyping Improves the World. Intellect Books. In press.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, Shana MacDonald, and Brianna Wiens. “I can(‘t) do that: the multimangle of theatrical vibrancy.” Theatre and New Materialisms/Théâtre et Nouveaux matérialismes. Ed. Hervé Guay, Jean-Marc Larrue and Nicole Nolette. In press.

Aikman, Lisa and Jennifer Roberts-Smith, with Kate Crozier, Jessica Hutchison, Carin Lowerison, Signy Lynch, May Nemat Allah, Julie Thompson, Matt White, and Hannah Watts. “Theatre for Relationality: A Case Study in Restorative Pedagogy, Relational Design, and Audience Engagement.” Impacting Audiences. Ed. Matt Omasta and Dani Snyder-Young. Routledge. The Routledge Theatre and Performance Series in Audience Research. Ed. Kirsty Sedgman. In press.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer and Shawn DeSouza-Coelho. “Shakespeare, Game, and Play in Digital Pedagogical Shakespeare Games.” Games and Theatre in Early Modern England. Ed. Tom Bishop, Gina Bloom, and Erika T. Lin. Routledge. In press.

MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens. “Not Influencers, but Amplifiers: @Aesthetic.Resistance as Feminist IG Hack.” In Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook, edited by Beth Fischer and Hannah Jacobs. MIT Press. Forthcoming 2021.

MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens.. “Feminist Memes: Digital Community, Identity, and Resistance from the Shadows.” In Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision, edited by Toija Clinque and Jordan Beth Vincent. Bloomsbury. Accepted by editors.

Wiens, Brianna I. “Virtual Dwelling: Orientations to Feminist Digital Communities.” Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices. Ed. Shana MacDonald, Milena Radzikowska, Michelle MacArthur, and Brianna I. Wiens. Lexington Press. Accepted by editors.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Sehn, T.C.M., G.F. Pereira, S. Ruecker, J.L.F. Aymone. 2020. “Reading Together: A way to bring older adults closer and increase place attachment.” PIXO – Revista de Arquitetura, Cidade e Contemporaneidade. Pelotas, Brazil: UFPel. [Portuguese]

Wiens, Brianna, Stan Ruecker, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Milena Radzikowska, and Shana MacDonald; with Sid Heeg, Sabrina Low, and Khartiki Bhatnager. 2020. Materializing Data: New Research Methods for Digital Humanities. Digital Studies/Le champ numérique . Special Issue: Papers Arising from the 2019 Conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société Canadienne des humanités numériques. Ed. Barbara Bordalejo and Luis Meneses.

Wiens, Brianna I. and Shana MacDonald. 2020. “Turning (it) Up: #MeToo and the Poiesis of Hashtag Feminism,” Feminist Media Studies. Online. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1770312.

MacDonald, Shana. 2020. “What do you (really) meme?: Pandemic memes as social political repositories” Leisure Sciences Special Issue: Leisure in the time of coronavirus. Online. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2020.1773995

MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I Wiens. 2019. “New Materialist Research Methods in Public Participatory Art: “Mobilizing the ‘Multi-Mangle’” Leisure Sciences 40.1: 366-384.

Radzikowska, Milena, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Xinyue Zhou, and Stan Ruecker. 2019, July. “A Speculative Feminist Approach to Project Management.” SDRJ: Strategic Design Research Journal. 12(1), 94-113.

Ferronato, Priscilla, Lisa Mercer, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, and Stan Ruecker. 2019. Living Labs and the DH Centre: Lessons for Each from the Other. KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies 3(1): 14. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/kula.46

Ruecker, Stan. 2019. “Every Day I Write the Book: Use of the First Person Singular in Personas and Scenarios.” Formy. Vol. 1 pp. 1-35. [English and Polish]

Moon, E., Schneider, S., Ferronato, P., Salah, M., Ruecker, S., and McDonagh, D. 2019, May. The Role of Empathic Design Research in the Prototyping of Interactive Visualizations. The Design Journal, 22(Sup 1), 1515-1527.

De la Rosa, Juan and Stan Ruecker. 2019. The unintended consequences of embedded values in socio-technical systems: A critical reflection using formal analysis of speedometers in customer vehicles. The Design Journal, 22(Sup 1), 1723-1734.

Funded Creative Research and Prototypes

MacDonald, Shana, Brianna I. Wiens, et al. 2019-20. Feminists Do Media (@Aesthetic.Resistance on Instagram).

MacDonald, Shana, Brianna I. Wiens, et al. 2019-20. Let Us Speak (@LetUsSpeak4 on Instagram, @LetUsSpeak4 on Twitter).

Radzikowska, Milena, with Stan Ruecker and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, July 26—August 14. “El Taller de Diseño e Innovación Comunitaria (TaDIC) Project and Community Design and Innovation Workshop.” Series of experimental design research workshops on Feminist Design Thinking, Prototyping for Social Good, and Design for Preferred Futures. (https://tadicomunitario.wixsite.com/tumaco). Tumaco, Colombia.

Professional Journals and Proceedings

Aikman, Lisa and Jennifer Roberts-Smith, with Kate Crozier, Jessica Hutchison, Carin Lowerison, Signy Lynch, May Nemat Allah, Julie Thompson, Matt White, and Hannah Watts. 2020. “Relational Audience Engagement in Guarded Girls: A Critical Reflection.” Review: the Journal of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019. “Forget to Clean Up When You’re Done.” Proceedings of the 2019 DRS Learn X Design Conference: Insider Knowledge. Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers. 9-12 July 2019. Middle East Technical University. Ankara, Turkey. Ed. Naz A.G.Z. Börekçi, Dalsu Özgen Koçyıldırım, Fatma Korkut, and Derek Jones. METU Department of Industrial Design. 361-374.

Derksen, Gerry, Zhabiz Shafeiyoun, and Stan Ruecker. 2019. “Prototyping a New Economy.” Proceedings of the Design Research Society (DRS) Learn X Design 2019: Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, July 9-12, 2019.

Brakke, Aaron, Susan Liepert, and Stan Ruecker. 2019. “Design for the Non-Human.” Proceedings of the Design Research Society (DRS) Learn X Design 2019: Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, July 9-12, 2019.

Farzinfar, Mahshid and Stan Ruecker. 2019. “Why Design Needs Application Programming Interfaces.” Proceedings of the Design Research Society (DRS) Learn X Design 2019: Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, July 9-12, 2019.

Ruecker, Stan, Aaron Brakke, and Susan Liepert. 2019. “Prototipos por el Diseño Non-humano.” Proceedings of Imagenfest 2019: Festival Internacional de la Imagen año 2019. Manizales, Colombia. June 10-15, 2019. [Spanish]

Ferronato, Priscilla and Stan Ruecker. 2019. “Provoke, Experiment and Produce: Teaching design research with prototypes.” In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Design Research (CIDI3). Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. March 20-22, 2019.

De la Rosa, Juan and Stan Ruecker. 2019. The nature of design-produced knowledge: The use of prototypes as tools to produce high-resolution maps of possible future states of the system. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Design Research (CIDI3). Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. March 20-22, 2019.

Conference Presentations and Talks

Wiens, Brianna I. and Shana MacDonald. 2020, September 30-October 2. “Fostering Feminist and Queer Futures: Instagram ‘Hacking’ for the Resistance,” Futures of Feminist & Queer Solidarities: Connectivity, Materiality, and Mobility in a Digital World. International Online Conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Wiens, Brianna I. and Shana MacDonald. 2020, October. “Remixing Technocultures: Feminist Interventions into Platform Conformity,” International Conference on Communication and Media Studies, Toronto, ON.

MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens. 2020, July. “From Influencer to Amplifier: @aesthetic.resistance as Feminist IG Hack,” Methods, Theories, and Taking Action Through Gender and Feminisms in HCI workshop, Hanover, Germany.

MacDonald, Shana. 2020, May. “Performing Feminism in Networked Spaces Online and Offline” Chair and organizer with Michelle MacArthur, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Montreal, QC. Conference moved to an online platform.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer. 2020, May 25-18. “What Might a Relational Approach Offer to Artistice Research?”. Canadian Association for Theatre Research. “Articulations of Division and Unity: Re-evaluating Practices of Artistic Research.”Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

MacDonald, Shana. 2020, May. “Performing Feminism in Networked Spaces Online and Offline” Chair and organizer with Michelle MacArthur, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Montreal, QC.

MacDonald, Shana. 2020, April. “Contemporary and Historical Feminisms: Continuities, Comparisons, and Contradictions,” Panel chair and respondent. Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Denver, CO.

Wiens, Brianna I. 2020, April. “Feminists Do Instagram: @aesthetic.resitance as Hacktivism and Amplifier.” Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Denver, CO.

MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens. 2020, Feb 27. “Creative Research Design for the Resistance.” 2020. Invited public research talk for the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo.

Aikman, Lisa and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, November 7-9. “What are you thinking/saying/doing differently, now? And now? And now? An iterative, relational method for assessing audience impact.” Seminar: Impacting Audiences: Methods for Studying Change. American Society for Theatre Research. Arlington, Virginia.

Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Shana MacDonald, and Brianna Wiens. 2019, October 22. “Feminist Prototyping for Better Futures.” Invited public lecture for the THINC Lab. University of Guelph.

Ruecker, Stan. 2019, October 22. “Transformational Interdisciplinary Research.” Invited public lecture for the Games Institute. University of Waterloo, Canada.

Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Shana MacDonald, and Brianna Wiens. 2019, Aug 13. “Materializing Better Futures: 11 Intersectional Feminist Design Principles in Action.” Invited public lecture for the National University of Colombia, Bogota.

Radzikowska, Milena. 2019, October 21. “What we can learn from the intersection of feminism and HCI.” Invited talk for the University of Waterloo Games Institute Visiting Scholar Series.

Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, July 9-12. “Forget to Clean Up When You’re Done.” Design Research Society (DRS) Learn X Design 2019: Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Wiens, Brianna I. with Shana MacDonald. 2019, June 24. “From Influencer to Amplifier: @aesthetic.resistance as Feminist IG Hack.” Paper presented at Designing Interactive Systems, San Diego, CA, USA.

Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, June 19-20. “A Critical Feminist Critique of Design Thinking.” Design Decoded: Design Thinking as the New Commodity. MARA University of Technology. Sungai Petani, Malaysia.

MacDonald, Shana. 2019, June. “Dwelling, collecting, remediating: the work of the artist-scholar in the academy,” Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Vancouver, BC.

Radzikowska, Milena, Courtney Clarkson, and Lucy Randal. 2019, June 3. “Materialized Discomforts: What tampons as data can teach us about UX design.” Presentation in the panel Materializing the Digital: Feminist Spaces for Young Audiences’ Agency in Digitally Mediated Environments at the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN). Vancouver.

Radzikowska, Milena, Stan Ruecker, and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, June 3. “Entryways and Material Persistence: Environments for Digital Humanities Teaching.” Presentation in the panel Materializing the Digital: Feminist Spaces for Young Audiences’ Agency in Digitally Mediated Environments at the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN). Vancouver.

MacDonald, Shana, and Brianna Wiens. 2019, June 3. “Let Us Speak: Mediating Stories of Feminist Intersectionality on Campus.” Presentation in the panel Materializing the Digital: Feminist Spaces for Young Audiences’ Agency in Digitally Mediated Environments at the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN). Vancouver.

MacDonald, Shana and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, June 3. “Dank Digitality, Material Memes, and the Performance of Agency.” Presentation in the panel Materializing the Digital: Feminist Spaces for Young Audiences’ Agency in Digitally Mediated Environments at the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN). Vancouver.

MacDonald, Shana, and Jennifer Roberts-Smith “I Can Do That: The Multi-modal, Durational Vibrancy of Theatrical Matter.” Société québécoise d’études théâtrales: Theatre and New Materialisms. Université de Montréal. Montréal, Canada. May 27-29, 2019.

Ruecker, Stan and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, April 26-27. “Four Ways From Sunday: How Design Creates Knowledge.” Invited presentation at the Symposium on Methodologies, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

MacDonald, Shana, Milena Radzikowska, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker, and Brianna I. Wiens. 2019, April 25. “Feminist Placemaking: Mapping the histories (and futures) of feminist media tactics.” Presentation in the panel, The qcollaborative: a critical feminist design research approach to exploring performance and technology in public practice. Mediating Performance Experiences: Cultures and Technologies in Conversation. University of Ottawa, April 25 – 27, 2019.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Brianna I. Wiens, and Shana MacDonald. 2019, April 25. “Design for Restorative Justice: relationality, performance, technology, and design.” Presentation in the panel, The qcollaborative: a critical feminist design research approach to exploring performance and technology in public practice. Mediating Performance Experiences: Cultures and Technologies in Conversation. University of Ottawa, April 25 – 27, 2019.

Radzikowska, Milena, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker, Shana MacDonald, and Brianna I. 2019, April 2r. Design Research & Intersectional Feminism in Prototyping for Reconciliation Presentation in the panel, The qcollaborative: a critical feminist design research approach to exploring performance and technology in public practice. Mediating Performance Experiences: Cultures and Technologies in Conversation. University of Ottawa, April 25 – 27, 2019.

Ruecker, Stan, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Milena Radzikowska, Shana MacDonald, and Brianna I. Wiens. 2019, April 25. Presentation in the panel, The qcollaborative: a critical feminist design research approach to exploring performance and technology in public practice.” Mediating Performance Experiences: Cultures and Technologies in Conversation. University of Ottawa, April 25 – 27, 2019.

Ruecker, Stan and Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, April 26-17. “Four Ways From Sunday: How Design Creates Knowledge.” Invited presentation at the Symposium on Methodologies, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Ruecker, Stan, Hernan Perez, Farly Leon, Luis Marmolejo, Jairo Rodriguez, Claudia Grisales, Fabio Fajardo, Milena Radzikowska. 2019, March 27. “Applied Research in Post-Conflict Zones.” Invited keynote for the Design Research Roadshow, Department of Building, Renovation & Refurbishment. Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA). Copenhagen.

MacDonald, Shana, and Brianna I. Wiens. 2019, February 20. “Public Feminist Technologies.” Presentation in the panel, Learning to Practice: Intersectional Feminist Design Research in the qcollaborative. W3 REPRESENTS: A Research Symposium 2019, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, Stan Ruecker, and Milena Radzikowska. “Design for Restorative Justice.” Presentation in the panel, Learning to Practice: Intersectional Feminist Design Research in the qcollaborative. W3 REPRESENTS: A Research Symposium 2019, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

Ruecker, Stan, Milena Radzikowska, Jennifer Roberts-Smith. 2019, February 20. “Re-Conceptualizing the Academy.” Presentation in the panel, Learning to Practice: Intersectional Feminist Design Research in the qcollaborative. W3 REPRESENTS: A Research Symposium 2019, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.

Workshops

Radzikowska, Milena and Stan Ruecker. 2020, Nov 25. “Visual Matters II: Reconceiving Voyant-Tools for Large Public Displays.” Design methods for the digital humanities. University of Alberta.

Radzikowska, Milena and Stan Ruecker. 2020, June 15-16. “Visual Matters: Design for Public Data Walls.” Design methods for the digital humanities.

Radzikowska, Milena 2020, April 15—May 18. “Materializing Data.” Seminar for Advanced Interaction Design class, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Institute of Design.

Radzikowska, Milena and Jillian Mah. 2020, March 5-7. “Design for Peace & Reconciliation: Imagining Our Ideal Futures.” Community workshop and exhibit at the Riddell Library 360 Studio, Mount Royal University.

MacDonald, Shana and Brianna I. Wiens. “Amplifying Activist Influence: @Aesthetic.Resistance as Feminist IG Hack,” Methods, Theories, and Taking Action Through Gender and Feminisms in HCI workshop, Hanover, Germany: Postponed until further notice due to COVID-19 (accepted December 2019).

Radzikowska, Milena. 2019, October 20 and November 20. technoTampons: Menstrual Hygiene Products as Technologies. University of Waterloo, Games Institute and Mount Royal University, Makers Studio.

Service to the Profession

MacDonald, Shana, May Nemat Allah, Milena Radzikowska, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker, and Brianna Wiens. (2020, July). Qcollaborative’s Commitments, Second Edition. Retrieved from http://www.qcollaborative.com/what-we-do/commitments/

MacDonald, Shana, Milena Radzikowska, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker, and Brianna Wiens. 2019, January. Qcollaborative’s Commitments. Retrieved from http://www.qcollaborative.com/what-we-do/commitments/

MacDonald, Shana, Milena Radzikowska, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker, and Brianna Wiens. Establishing qCollaborative as a member lab of the University of Waterloo’s Games Institute.

graduate student mentorship
facilitating the establishment of the GI’s working group on anti-racism, decolonization, equity, diversity, and inclusion
access for research partners and student assistants to GI infrastructure and networks

Public Knowledge Mobilization

MacDonald, Shana. 2020, February. “Feminists Do Media – The Art of Social Media Activism” X-Camera Speakers Series, Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener ON.

MacDonald, Shana, Milena Radzikowska, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker, and Brianna Wiens. 2019. qCollaborative Colouring Feminist Activists. Colouring book. The first in a series of books designed by the lab to celebrate and contemplate the vital work done by leading feminist activists of the past and present.

Graduate Student Research Assistants

Lisa Aikman (PhD, Toronto; Postdoc)

Justin Carpenter (PhD, Waterloo)

Claudia Grisales (PhD, Illinois)

Signy Lynch (PhD, Toronto)

Juan de la Rosa (PhD, Illinois)

Hannah Watts (PhD, Waterloo)

Brianna Wiens (PhD, York)

Undergraduate Student Research Assistants

Kartiki Bhatnager (Waterloo)

Sid Heeg (Waterloo)

Sabrina Low (Waterloo)

Jillian Mah (Mount Royal)

May Nemat Allah (Waterloo)