A peer-reviewed paper published at ICLS 2024, produced under Research Catalyst Grantee Dr. Jim Slotta’s Critical Action Learning Lab (CALL): Facilitating Students’ Critical Action on Urban Problems, supported by UTIF’s Research Catalyst Grants 2024-2025. The study documents outcomes of an international design workshop where 39 educators across 14 countries developed curricula addressing pressing socio-environmental issues
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Making Space for Critical Action: Re-visioning Computational Thinking
A peer-reviewed paper published at CSCL 2024, produced under Research Catalyst Grantee Dr. Jim Slotta’s Critical Action Learning Lab (CALL): Facilitating Students’ Critical Action on Urban Problems, supported by UTIF’s Research Catalyst Grant 2024-2025. The study reports on the co-design of a culturally relevant school makerspace in Bengaluru, India, integrating computational thinking with critical action pedagogy.
Read moreDiversifying Understanding of Participatory Action Research for Critical Learning Curricula in Indian Classrooms
A peer-reviewed paper published at ICLS 2025, produced under Research Catalyst Grantee Dr. Jim Slotta’s Critical Action Learning Lab (CALL): Facilitating Students’ Critical Action on Urban Problems, supported by UTIF’s Research Catalyst Grant 2024-25. The study examines a Participatory Action Research curriculum co-designed by teachers at a K-12 school in Bengaluru, India, addressing plastic waste through community-engaged learning
Read moreMaking the Sacred: Craft, Ritual, and Computational Imaginaries in Postcolonial HCI
A peer-reviewed paper published at CHI 2026, produced under Dr. Nusrat Jahan Mim’s project Urban Heritage and Social Sustainability: Empowering Kolkata’s Idol-Makers through Generative Artificial Intelligence, supported by UTIF’s Research Catalyst Grant 2025-2026. Drawing on a four-month ethnography in Kumartuli, Kolkata, the study examines how idol-maker communities bring sacred forms into being through devotional craft, challenging secular assumptions in Human-Computer Interaction research
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