Alex Jiahong Lu

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Everyday Design with Surrounds: Rehearsing Alternatives Amid Urban Sociotechnical Changes

This paper rethinks everyday design by shifting from materially available, physical ``surroundings'' as design resources to the unsettled, open-ended, and politically entangled ``surrounds'' as sites of practice. Drawing from ethnographies in New York City and Detroit, we describe how urban communities rehearse altern…

CHI '26CorrespondingParticipatory Design +2

Confronting the Discursive–Material Power of Storyboards: Toward Participatory Storyboarding

Storyboarding is a key method in design research and practice, widely used for ideation, communication, and critique of design prototypes. This article repositions storyboards as critical design artifacts with discursive and material power that mediates expertise and imaginaries of design futures. Drawing from a case…

CHI '261st AuthorTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +3

Counter-Visual Artifacts: Negotiating Surveillance and Carceral Visuality in Public Housing through Videovoice

U.S. public housing is historically a site of racialized and carceral surveillance. Digital surveillance technologies reinforce this containment by mediating carceral visuality, the institutionalized visual and analytic lenses that shape perceptions and governance of public housing spaces and residents. This paper pre…

CHI '261st AuthorParticipatory Design +2

Rethinking Knowledge Sharing as (Re)Orientations through Intergenerational Participatory Speculative Design

This paper reconsiders knowledge sharing as a relational process of disorientation and reorientation, which is a way of turning toward others, the world, and possible futures. Drawing on an intergenerational participatory speculative design project in a historically Black neighborhood, we show how seniors and youth sh…

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