"Crafting Shared Praxes of Hope" - an Open Lecture by Angelika Strohmayer, Northumbria University

Welcome to the open keynote lecture by Angelika Strohmayer, Northumbria University: "Crafting Shared Praxes of Hope – Opportunities for Feminist, Participatory Research for the Digitalisation of Research Methods".

In this talk, Angelika Strohmayer will explore research opportunities that sit at various intersections of participatory research, feminist ways of understanding the world, and digitalisation. She will do this by first charting some of her own disciplinarily-messy career path in academia and then discussing some of the digitally-augmented craft work she has been involved with alongside women with support needs, support workers, craft practitioners, and academics. At the end of her talk, Angelika will ask questions about what it might mean to design, develop, use, and evaluate technologies and other design interventions with and for support services that work towards more socially just worlds. She will ask questions about the role of academia in this process and advocate for the need for more hopeful practice.

Dr Angelika Strohmayer’s work sits at various intersections of collaborative craft practice, digital technologies, safety, and feminist theories. She works closely with support services for people with multiple unmet needs, policymakers, commissioners, and of course people with lived experience to make positive changes in the world. Angelika is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University’s School of Design, Arts, and Creative Industries and Director of a social enterprise called Crafting Hope CIC.