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Workshop Feminist Search Tool UU Libary
Name	Feminist Search Tool
Location	University of Utrecht
Date	2017/06/04
Time	[[]]
PeopleOrganisations	Read-in, Hackers & Designers
Type	Meetup
Web	Yes
Print	No

On 4th of June Hackers & Designers will host a small workshop together with Read-in, testing the the Feminist Search Tool,–a digital interface that invites users to explore different ways of engaging with the records of the Utrecht University Library, putting forth the question: Why are the authors of the books I read so white, so male, so Eurocentric?.

Hackers & Designers was invited by Read-in to collaborate on developing an alternative, potentially feminist approach to search in the context of the project Unlearning My Library. Bookshelf Research and functions as an awareness-raising tool to stir conversations about the inclusion and exclusion mechanisms that are inherent to our current Western knowledge economy. To this end, the Feminist Search Tool invites us all to reflect about our own search inquiries, and how the latter may be directed by our own biases and omissions. More broadly, it raises the question about the different decisions taken that influence our searches: Who is taking responsibility for which part of the search process: we, the users, the researcher, the library, the algorithm? And how does this influence our search result?

Read more about the Feminist Search Tool

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-In collaboration with Utrecht-based art & research collective [[Read-in]] Hackers & Designers developed the Feminist Search Tool*,–a digital interface that invites users to explore different ways of engaging with the records of the Utrecht University Library, putting forth the question: Why are the authors of the books I read so white, so male, so Eurocentric?. It has been developed by Read-in in collaboration with James Bryan Graves & Anja Groten in the context of the project Unlearning My Library. Bookshelf Research and functions as an awareness-raising tool to stir conversations about the inclusion and exclusion mechanisms that are inherent to our current Western knowledge economy. To this end, the Feminist Search Tool invites us all to reflect about our own search inquiries, and how the latter may be directed by our own biases and omissions. More broadly, it raises the question about the different decisions taken that influence our searches: Who is taking responsibility for which part of the search process: we, the users, the researcher, the library, the algorithm, ect.? And how does this influence our search result?
+On 4th of June [[Hackers & Designers]] will host a small workshop together with [[Read-in]], testing the
+the [[Feminist Search Engine|Feminist Search Tool]],–a digital interface that invites users to explore different ways of engaging with the records of the Utrecht University Library, putting forth the question: Why are the authors of the books I read so white, so male, so Eurocentric?.
+[[Hackers & Designers]] was invited by [[Read-in]] to collaborate on developing an alternative, potentially feminist approach to search in the context of the project ''Unlearning My Library. Bookshelf Research'' and functions as an awareness-raising tool to stir conversations about the inclusion and exclusion mechanisms that are inherent to our current Western knowledge economy. To this end, the Feminist Search Tool invites us all to reflect about our own search inquiries, and how the latter may be directed by our own biases and omissions. More broadly, it raises the question about the different decisions taken that influence our searches: Who is taking responsibility for which part of the search process: we, the users, the researcher, the library, the algorithm? And how does this influence our search result?
+Read more about the [[Feminist Search Engine|Feminist Search Tool]]