LAURA FORLANO

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Forlano, L. (2019). “Stabilizing/Destabilizing the Driverless City: Speculative Futures and Autonomous Vehicles.” International Journal of Communication.
• Forlano, Laura, & Smith, Stephanie. (2018). Critique as Collaboration in Design Anthropology. Journal of Business Anthropology, 7(2). 
• Forlano, L. (2017). “Data Rituals in Intimate Infrastructures: Crip Time and the Disabled Cyborg Body as an Epistemic Site of Feminist Science.” Catalyst. Special Issue on Science out of Feminist Theory.
• Forlano, L. (2017). “Posthumanism and Design.” She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. Special Issue on Transforming Design Matters.
• Forlano, L. and Mazé, R. (forthcoming 2020). “Demonstrating and Anticipating in Distributed Design Practices.” Demonstrations. Inaugural Issue.
• Forlano, L. (2016). “Decentering the Human in the Design of Collaborative Cities.” Design Issues 32(3).
• Forlano, L. (2016). “Hacking the Feminist Disabled Body.” Journal of Peer Production. Special Issue on “Feminist (Un)Hacking.”
• Forlano, L. and Halpern, M. (2016). “Reimagining Work: Entanglements and Frictions around Future of Work Narratives,” Fibreculture(26). Special Issue on “Entanglements: activism and technology.”
• Forlano, L. (2015). “Towards an Integrated Theory of the Cyber-Urban: Digital Materiality and Networked Media.” Digital Culture & Society. Inaugural Issue.
• Forlano, L. and Jungnickel, K. (2014). “Hacking Binaries / Hacking Hybrids: Understanding the Black/White Binary as a Socio-technical Practice,” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Special Issue on “Hacking the Black/White Binary.”
• Forlano, L. and Mathew, Anijo. (2014). “From Design Fiction to Design Friction: Speculative and Participatory Design of Values-Embedded Urban Technology.” Journal of Urban Technology, Special Issue on Urban Informatics.
• Forlano, L. (2013). “Making Waves: Wireless Technology and the Co-production of Place.” First Monday, Special Issue on “Media and the City.”
• Forlano, L. (2010). “WiFi Geographies: When Code Meets Place.” The Information Society, 25: 1-9.
• Forlano, L. and D. Dailey. (2008). “Community Wireless Networks as Situated Advocacy.” In Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz and Mark Shepard, eds. Situated Advocacy. Situated Technology Pamphlet Series, New York: The Architectural League of New York.
• Forlano, L. (2007). “WiFi Hotspots.” IEEE Pervasive Computing, July – September 2007.
• Forlano, L. (2008). “Anytime? Anywhere?: Reframing Debates Around Municipal Wireless Networking.” Journal of Community Informatics, 4(1).
• Forlano, L. (2006). “Activist Infrastructures: The Role of Community Wireless Organizations in Authenticating the City,” Eastbound.

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

• Forlano, Laura. (2018). Posthuman Futures: Connecting/Disconnecting the Networked (Medical) Self In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self: Human Augmentics, Artificial Intelligence, Sentience. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Foth, M., Forlano, L. and Bilandzic, M. (2016). “The City is My Office: Mapping New Work Practices in the Smart City.” Handbook on Social Practices and Digital Life-Worlds. Springer.
• Vertesi, J., Ribes, D., Forlano, L., Loukissas, Y. and Cohn, Marisa. (2016). “Engaging, Critiquing, and Making Digital Systems: Crossings between STS and Design.” The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Forlano, L. (2015). “Case Study: Designing Policy.” In Gordon, E. and Mihailidis, P. Civic Media Project. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Forlano, L. (2011). “Ethnographic Research and Digital Media.” In Scholtz, T. Thinking with Digital Media: A Reader in Motion.
• Townsend, A., Forlano, L. and Simeti, A. (2011). “Breakout! Escape from the Office: Situating Knowledge Work in Sentient Public Spaces.” In M. Shepard (Ed.), Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Forlano, L. (2011). “Building the Open Source City: New Work Environments for Collaboration and Innovation.” In Foth, M. and L. Forlano, M. Gibbs and C. Satchell. From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.