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  1. Session 1: Critical Technical Practice: Motivation and Methods

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Session 1: Critical Technical Practice: Motivation and Methods

This working group is for people who:

  • Want to get support to tackle the doubts in research and technical practice
  • Want to get support to improve the sense of meaning regarding the technical and research agendas and purposes
  • Want to increase the real-world contribution from one’s technical professional

The goals of the working group:

  • Conduct critical examinations and improve the critical reflections of group members’ own technical work or technical field
    • Outcomes: some inspiration, alternative perspectives of understanding technology, side projects, or improvements in your existing projects, etc.
  • Interested group members work together to summarize our critical technical practice experience/processes as formal methods that can be taught and delivered to technical and non-technical audiences
    • Outcomes: tutorials, courses, toolkits, website, papers, etc.

Tentative format of the working group:

  • Group members bring each doubt and skepticism in each own research and technical practice into critical discussion and feedback
  • Each time we present some examples of critical analysis, regarding the technical problem formation, design, evaluation, deployment

Duration:

  • Summer 2026, can be extended depending on participants’ interest
  • Meet biweekly