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Pauline Gourlet

I design (re)mediation tools and techniques and study their effects.

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Pauline  Gourlet works at the intersection of design research and STS,  developing an action research approach that experiments with collective  inquiries dispositifs.  Participatory practices of documentation and  representation are thus at the heart of her research. She is interested  in situated developments of digital technologies, focusing on their  effects on collective actions and decision-making processes. Pauline founded and works within the designers' collective L'Atelier de Chercheurs since  2013; she obtained a PhD in ergonomics in 2018 at the University of  Paris 8, in partnership with Ensadlab. In New York from 2016 to 2019,  she was a visiting teacher and researcher at The New School and served  as the Data and Innovation Lead at the Department of Political Affairs  of the United Nations. As a postdoctoral fellow at Sciences Po's  médialab as part of the Shaping AI project,  she studied the development of AI in France and led a three-year effort  to animate and structure a co-inquiry to re-problematize AI from  situated practices. The multiple sites of inquiry she has invested  in—from French elementary schools to the United Nations—enable her to  politicize and pluralize public issues related to digitization and  computation.

Her  work takes the form of publications in academic journals in design and  STS (Big Data and Society, Sciences du design, DIS...), digital tools  (do•doc, studio notebooks...) and multimedia objects, such as the research report of the Shaping AI project.

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