Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS.

While cross-disciplinary collaboration continues to be a cornerstone of inventive work in interactive design, the infrastructures of academia, as well as barriers to participation imposed by our professional organizations, make collaboration between particular groups difcult. In this workshop, we will focus specifcally on how artist residencies are addressing (or not addressing) the challenges that artists, craftspeople, and/or independent designers face when collaborating with researchers afliated with DIS. By focusing on the question "what is mutual beneft?", this workshop seeks to combine the perspectives of artists and academic researchers who collaborate with artists (through residencies or other forms of sustained collaboration) to (1) refect on benefts or defciencies in what the residency research model is currently doing and (2) generate resources for our community to efectively structure and evaluate our methods of collaboration with artists. Our hope is to provide recognition of the research contributions of artists and pathways for equitable inclusion of artists as a frst step towards broader infrastructural change.