Restoring Quilts
"Restorying" engages high school youth in interrogating dominant narratives about computer science through collaborative, electronic textile quilt-making. Youth craft and code interactive quilt patches that are digitally "stitched" into a collaborative artifact, with each patch reimagining CS from youths’ perspectives, particularly regarding what CS is, who can participate in CS, and how CS is done. Take a look at the TFI STEM Scholars Digital Restorying Quilt.
Contributors
Mia Shaw, Yi Zhang, GaYeon Ji, Luis Morales-Navarro
Related Research
Shaw, M.S., Ji, G., Zhang, Y., & Kafai, Y.B. (2021). Promoting socio-political identification with computer science: How high school youth restory their identities through electronic textile quilts. Proceedings of RESPECT 2021. Link to PDF