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Prof. Catherine D'Ignazio
Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning
Director, Data + Feminism Lab
Primary DLC
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
MIT Room:
10-485M
(617) 258-6634
dignazio@mit.edu
http://www.kanarinka.com/
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Civic Participation
Community Development
Computation
Feminism
Gender Studies
Health
Machine Learning
Postcolonialism
Public Art
Public Participation
Social Equity
Urban Information
Technology, and Media and Analytics
Visualization
Research Summary
Catherine D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial equity. D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run reproductive justice hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. With Rahul Bhargava, she built the platform Databasic.io, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her forthcoming book from MIT Press, Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & social justice has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org and the Knight Foundation and exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston. She holds an MFA from Maine College of Art, an MS from the MIT Media Lab and a BA (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Tufts University.
Recent Work
Projects
January 2, 2024
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Data + Feminism Lab
Principal Investigator
Catherine D'Ignazio
Books
Publication date:
June 1, 2021
Books
Edited by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Daniela Agostinho, Annie Ring, Kristin Veel,
Prof. Catherine D'Ignazio
Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data
Publication date:
March 15, 2020
Books
Lauren F. Klein,
Prof. Catherine D'Ignazio
Data Feminism
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