Bronwyn Cumbo

Very happy to be able to share a new paper from the Our Water Futures project. It describes a four-part participatory film method project I developed with Rowena Potts and a group of children from Yarra City precinct. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

We made it to #idc2024 in Delft and hosted a workshop to identify avenues for CCI research to engage with environmental sustainability. Please get in touch with me, Andrea Gauthier, or Mina Vasalou (UCL Knowledge Lab) if would like to be part of these ongoing discussions!

A Monash Lens piece describing a participatory film method I developed with Rowena Potts to support children to participate in how we imagine and realise water futures 💦 . @emergingtechlab @MonashInfotech @technology/2024/05/23/1386742/giving-children-a-voice-on-their-water-futures?amp=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lens.monash.edu/@technology/20…

Final call to participate in our workshop "Exploring research at the intersection of children, emerging technology, and environmental sustainability" to be held at IDC'24. EOI due 15th April. @avasalou @AndreaDGauthier @IDC_ACM @ozchiconf @sigchi idcandourenvironment.wordpress.com.

💧 Today is #WorldWaterDay 💧 Through "Our Water Futures", @broncumbo adopts a film-based approach to document how children experience water everyday - helping us better address tomorrow's water-related challenges. Learn more: ourwaterfutures.com @emergingtechlab #HCC

Researchers working at the intersection of children, digital technology, and environmental sustainability, we are hosting a workshop at IDC’24 that may be of interest! Submissions (600 words) due 15 April. @emergingtechlab @uclknowledgelab idcandourenvironment.wordpress.com

My latest for @Nature: AI's environmental costs are soaring. The new energy-hungry models for video, text, and image could create an energy crisis - and impact drinking water reserves. We urgently need action from industry, researchers, and legislators. nature.com/articles/d4158…

We have kicked off our fieldwork at the Digital Future School in partnership with @MonashTS and @MonashDFI. Supporting student-led imaginings of the future school that considers AI and climate scenarios with @YolandeStreng @Neil_Selwyn @Kari_LDahlgren @fakaviani @MWagnerRedChair

🎧NEW PODCAST! 🎧 Want to understand AI with deeper context? We've launched a pod series on how AI is trained to interpret the world. Each ep has a research theme: from the social, legal, cultural, environmental & political impacts of generative AI. knowingmachines.org/podcast 👇📻

Researchers working in #children #environment and #digitaltechnology are invited to submit a paper to this International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction special issue. Due 1 March 2024. @avasalou @AndreaDGauthier @IDC_ACM @ozchiconf @sigchi #a-call-for-social-imaginaries-at-a-time-of-climate-crisis-the-role-of-technology-in-children-s-environmental-sustainability" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/journal/intern…

New book out by the fabulous @lucipangrazio and @Neil_Selwyn!

@lucipangrazio @Neil_Selwyn @DeakinREDI @digitalchildau @trickywalsh Huge congratulations luci and Neil!!

We are so excited to announce that our film #Requiem has been selected to screen in Paris as part of the Pariscience International Science Film Festival in October. It was a joy composing the music for this work. Congrats to the @archivalfuturescollective @festival_pariscience.

A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-…

HOLON An interactive, solar powered installation of 130 cybernetic creatures that listen to their environment and communicate through light and sound. jonmccormack.info/project/holon

Huge congratulations @YolandeStreng! 👏 👏

As part of #IT4EnvironmentalSustainability at #MonashOpenDay, Professors @YolandeStreng, Juliana Sutanto and Bernd Meyer explored the topic 'AI, Data Science and the Environment - Collision or Collaboration?', and raised new questions/possibilities/considerations @monashinfo.

Using bioacoustics for biodiversity monitoring. @mohaimenz Prof Bernd Meyers.

#OurWaterStories led by myself and Rowena Potts where we support child researchers to explore water in their everyday and possibilities for water futures.

Today we have been showcasing some of the wonderful #IT4EnvironmentalSustainability projects going on within @MonashInfotech as part of #MonashOpenDay. Thanks to all the wonderful researchers who took part!