Fernanda Soares da Costa

Making Seafoam: An Autobiographical Design Journey Engaging Local Ecologies Through Making

Sustainable HCI (SHCI) Researchers are increasingly attuned to environmental issues in material creation, guided by a posthumanist framework that decentres the human-maker, accounting for nonhuman agencies. Applying ‘noticing’ as a method, we sourced sea-derived matter—often dismissed as waste—to make a tangible mater…