Daniela K. Rosner

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Daniela K. Rosner is a leading scholar in human-computer interaction, design research, and feminist technoscience. Her work critically examines how technologies are shaped by—and in turn shape—social, cultural, and political values, often foregrounding marginalized practices and alternative forms of making. Among her most influential contributions is the provocative pictorial “Useful Uselessness?” (2020, 9 citations), which explores queer use through a collaborative human-robot knitting process. By documenting the messy, seemingly unproductive acts of teaching a cobot to knit, Rosner challenges conventional notions of efficiency and utility in design, opening space for more inclusive and speculative technological futures. Her broader research has earned widespread recognition, with her publications amassing thousands of citations and informing fields from design studies to feminist STS. Rosner is also the author of *Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design* (MIT Press), a foundational text that reimagines design history through the lens of care, craft, and counter-narratives. A professor at the University of Washington, she continues to inspire students and researchers to question the taken-for-granted assumptions embedded in our digital and material worlds.