Publications

Peer-Reviewed

• Kozubaev, S and Howell, N. (2024) “Tuning in and listening to the current”: Understanding Remote Ritual Practice in Sufi Communities. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2633–2648 || pdf doi
• Kozubaev, S., DiSalvo, C. (2021) Futures in Things: Locating the Promise of Infrastructures in Public Libraries. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC). || pdf doi
• Kozubaev, S., DiSalvo, C. (2021) Cracking Public Space Open: Design for Public Librarianship. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. || pdf doi
• Kozubaev, S., Elsden, C., Howell, N., Søndergaard, M.L.J., Merrill, N., Schulte, B., Wong, R.Y. (2020) Expanding Modes of Reflection in Design Futuring. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. || pdf doi
• Kozubaev, S., DiSalvo, C. (2020). Future of Libraries as Convivial Spaces: A Design Fiction. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work. ACM. || pdf doi
• Kozubaev, S., Rochaix, F., DiSalvo, C., & Le Dantec, C. A. (2019). Spaces and Traces: Implications of Smart Technology in Public Housing. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (p. 439). ACM. || pdf doi
• Kozubaev, S. (2016). Stop Nigmas: Experimental Speculative Design through Pragmatic Aesthetics and Public Art. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (p. 76). ACM. || pdf doi

Professional & Popular

• Kozubaev, S., DiSalvo C. (2021). Futures in Things: Locating the Promise of Infrastructures in Public Libraries. Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference (EPIC) 2021.
• Kozubaev, S. (2018). The Future of Service Design in a Post-Human World. Touchpoint Journal of Service Design, Vol 10-2. (p.44) Service Design Network (paywall)
• Kozubaev, S. (2018). Futures as Design: Explorations, Images, and Participations. ACM Interactions, March-April (p.44). ACM.
• Kozubaev, S. (2015). Service Design and Transmedia Storytelling: A Convergence of Practices. Touchpoint Journal of Service Design, Vol 8-1. (p.41) Service Design Network (paywall)
• Kozubaev, S. (2018). How to Imagine Future(s) of Your Business, Fast Company

Talks, Presentations and Workshops

• Temporal Scales In Infrastructures: Locating Socio-Material Futures. Reconsidering Scale and Scaling In CSCW Research. CSCW 2020 Conference Workshop (workshop site)
• Applied Theater for Developing Participatory Design Fictions in Virtual Reality. Communicate, Critique and Co-create (CCC) Future Technologies through Design Fictions in VR Environments. DIS 2020 Conference Workshop (workshop site)
• Participatory Workbooks For Speculation: Exploring Library Futures. Speculative and Critical Design in Education: Practice and Perspectives. DIS 2020 Conference Workshop (workshop site)
• Libraries as Convivial Spaces – Lost In The Stacks Podcast on WREK Radio
• Games & Strategy: Exploring Participation and Design in Futures – Speculative Futures Atlanta Chapter Event (Apr 2019)
  A workshop on using participatory design games to explore futures. Co-facilitated a play session of a newly developed game (soon to be released).
• Questioning Futures through STS and Design – Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, GA  (Apr 2019)
  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 – University of Washington (May 2018)
  Workshop on the intersection of design and long-term thinking. Demonstrated a participatory interactive demo called Speculative Footage Generator which focuses on the future of smart video surveillance in public spaces.
• Utopian Objects: Vannevar Bush’s Memex and Speculating with Things – Society of Utopian Studies Conference, Memphis, TN (Oct 2017)
  A presentation exploring the relationship between design and utopian studies, using the Memex machine as an example.
• Transmedia Storytelling for Service Design – Service Design Global Conference, New York, NY (Oct 2015)
  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  – World Future Society Conference, San Francisco, CA (Jul 2015)
  A workshop aimed at scholars and practitioners about the application of games design in futures studies.
• Future Worlding for Design – Academic Design Management Conference, London, UK (Sep 2014)
  A workshop aimed at design management scholars and practitioners to teach futures studies and world-building.
• Future Worlding for Service Design – ServDes Conference, Lancaster University, UK (Apr 2014)
  A workshop aimed at service design scholars and practitioners to teach futures studies and its applications in service design to enhance the understanding of long-term implications of services and ecosystems in which they operate.