Publications

"Tuning in and listening to the current": Understanding Remote Ritual Practice in Sufi Communities · Kozubaev, S. and Howell, N. · In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2633–2648 [pdf] [doi]

Futures in Things: Locating the Promise of Infrastructures in Public Libraries · Kozubaev, S., DiSalvo, C. · Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) [doi]

Cracking Public Space Open: Design for Public Librarianship · Kozubaev, S., DiSalvo, C. · In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. [pdf] [doi]

Expanding Modes of Reflection in Design Futuring · Kozubaev, S., Elsden, C., Howell, N., Søndergaard, M.L.J., Merrill, N., Schulte, B., Wong, R.Y. · In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. [pdf] [doi]

Future of Libraries as Convivial Spaces: A Design Fiction · Kozubaev, S., DiSalvo, C. · In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work. ACM. [pdf] [doi]

Spaces and Traces: Implications of Smart Technology in Public Housing · Kozubaev, S., Rochaix, F., DiSalvo, C., & Le Dantec, C. A. · In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 439). ACM. [pdf] [doi]

Stop Nigmas: Experimental Speculative Design through Pragmatic Aesthetics and Public Art · Kozubaev, S. · In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (p. 76). ACM. [pdf] [doi]

Futures in Things: Locating the Promise of Infrastructures in Public Libraries · Kozubaev, S., DiSalvo C. · Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference (EPIC) 2021 [link]

The Future of Service Design in a Post-Human World · Kozubaev, S. · Touchpoint Journal of Service Design, Vol 10-2. (p.44) Service Design Network [link] (paywall)

Futures as Design: Explorations, Images, and Participations · Kozubaev, S. · ACM Interactions, March-April (p.44). ACM. [link]

Service Design and Transmedia Storytelling: A Convergence of Practices · Kozubaev, S. · Touchpoint Journal of Service Design, Vol 8-1. (p.41) Service Design Network [link] (paywall)

How to Imagine Future(s) of Your Business · Kozubaev, S. · Fast Company [link]

Temporal Scales In Infrastructures: Locating Socio-Material Futures · Kozubaev, S. · Reconsidering Scale and Scaling In CSCW Research. CSCW 2020 Conference Workshop [link]

Applied Theater for Developing Participatory Design Fictions in Virtual Reality · Kozubaev, S. · Communicate, Critique and Co-create (CCC) Future Technologies through Design Fictions in VR Environments. DIS 2020 Conference Workshop [link]

Participatory Workbooks For Speculation: Exploring Library Futures · Kozubaev, S. · Speculative and Critical Design in Education: Practice and Perspectives. DIS 2020 Conference Workshop [link]

Libraries as Convivial Spaces – Lost In The Stacks Podcast · Kozubaev, S. · WREK Radio [link]

Games & Strategy: Exploring Participation and Design in Futures · Kozubaev, S. · Speculative Futures Atlanta Chapter Event. A workshop on using participatory design games to explore futures.

Questioning Futures through STS and Design · Kozubaev, S. · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. Presentation on how conceptual resources from Science and Technology Studies (STS) can be used in speculative design practices and research.

Long(er) Term Design Thinking · Kozubaev, S. · University of Washington. Workshop on the intersection of design and long-term thinking.

Utopian Objects: Vannevar Bush's Memex and Speculating with Things · Kozubaev, S. · Society of Utopian Studies Conference, Memphis, TN. A presentation exploring the relationship between design and utopian studies, using the Memex machine as an example.

Transmedia Storytelling for Service Design · Kozubaev, S. · Service Design Global Conference, New York, NY. A presentation exploring commonalities between the theory of transmedia storytelling to the practice of service design.

Ahead of the Game: Insights and Practicalities for Developing Foresight Games · Kozubaev, S. · World Future Society Conference, San Francisco, CA. A workshop aimed at scholars and practitioners about the application of games design in futures studies.

Future Worlding for Design · Kozubaev, S. · Academic Design Management Conference, London, UK. A workshop aimed at design management scholars and practitioners to teach futures studies and world-building.

Future Worlding for Service Design · Kozubaev, S. · ServDes Conference, Lancaster University, UK. A workshop aimed at service design scholars and practitioners to teach futures studies and its applications in service design.