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Miranda Marcus

HCD is Not OK. An Argument For Relational Design in the Age of Climate Crisis.

The world doesn’t actually revolve around us so pretending it does and ignoring everything else seems like a bad idea. Here are some of my…

7 min readJan 24, 2022

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HCD is Not OK. An Argument For Relational Design in the Age of Climate Crisis.

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Miranda Marcus

Being Objects / Being AI— a workshop

Two design fiction activities to decentre the human perspective

3 min readDec 5, 2021

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Being Objects / Being AI— a workshop

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Miranda Marcus
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Wellcome Data

How can we balance equity and empowerment with open mental health science?

Wellcome is enabling the development of new, more personalised interventions in mental health but there are some significant challenges.

5 min readNov 9, 2021

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How can we balance equity and empowerment with open mental health science?

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Wellcome Data

The MindKind Study has launched in the UK- update and insights so far

What we’re learning about embedding young people in research, ensuring equity, and some of the inevitable technical hurdles we’ve faced.

7 min readSep 24, 2021

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The MindKind Study has launched in the UK- update and insights so far

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Miranda Marcus

Data is about relationships, not individuals

A post about pluralism in data and AI and considering non-Western ethical frameworks like Ubuntu.

6 min readJul 29, 2021

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Data is about relationships, not individuals

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The Black Box Body: Cultural Context and Machine Learning in Medical Diagnostics

A summary of an ethnographic analysis looking at medical uses of AI. It documents a San Fransisco based deep learning startup building a…

29 min readJun 20, 2021

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The Black Box Body: Cultural Context and Machine Learning in Medical Diagnostics

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UX Collective

Every data set has a setting — a workshop

Notes from a workshop I ran as part of the Uroboros 2021 Festival, organised by the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague. In the…

6 min readJun 20, 2021

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Every data set has a setting — a workshop

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UX Collective

Creative R&D for Data

Using creative R&D to go beyond ethics and build data technologies that embed a different set of values from the ground up.

9 min readJul 25, 2021

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Illustration of a hand holding a box of binary numbers.

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Wellcome Data

Moving from design to build — an update on the Global Mental Health Databank study

It’s been a while since we last updated you on the progress of the GMH Databank so here’s a quick update of where we’ve got to…

4 min readFeb 8, 2021

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Moving from design to build — an update on the Global Mental Health Databank study

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UX Collective

Do we need a new approach for designing with AI?

Thinking through the limitations of HCD for AI tech, and considering the value of relational design for data systems.

7 min readJan 20, 2021

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Coloured threads wound around spokes to form a network. Photo by Omar Flores on Unsplash

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Miranda Marcus

Miranda Marcus

Acting Head BBC News Labs / Wellcome Trust Data For Mental Health Research. ex Open Data Institute. Writes about data, design, digital, and anthropology.

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