Projects

Breakdown and Repair in the Gaza Strip

This project investigates how infrastructural, organizational, and technological breakdowns in Gaza impact health care delivery and the repair of medical devices in public hospitals and clinics. Initially funded by a 2023 New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration grant, the project aimed to inventory and assess Gaza’s medical equipment, develop processes for repair and triage, […]

Situating London’s AI Homelessness Model

In 2020, the City of London, Ontario introduced the Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) model, an algorithm designed to predict which individuals are most at risk of becoming chronically homeless. While the system is intended to improve resource allocation and prevention efforts, it also raises pressing questions about fairness, accountability, and the risks of embedding […]

Insights and Interventions for AI Policy

There is increasing and rapid deployment of Artificial Intelligence across all areas of life. While AI systems can be used in ways that improve well-being, health, service efficiency and decision-making, they can also be used in ways that discriminate, exacerbate inequality, infringe upon rights, socially sort, disrupt democratic processes, limit access to services, introduce error, […]

Toward a Canadian Right to Repair

Fixing the things we own has never been more difficult. From smartphones and laptops to tractors, wheelchairs, and home appliances, repair has become more costly, inconvenient, and in many cases, impossible. The growing barriers to repair are contributing to what some have called the “Great Canadian Breakdown.” The consequences of this problem ripple across society. […]

Social Justice in an Age of Datafied Governance

This project addresses key democratic challenges presented by the rapid implementation of AI and automation across government services without adequate transparency, accountability or public debate and participation in decision-making about if, where and how these systems should be used. The project focuses on: 1) Mapping and analysing where and how AI and automated systems are […]

The Glass Room