Topic / Focus

We close this unit by asking whether predictions are ever neutral once norms, bias, categories, and power are built into them, using Sidewalk Toronto as a case, and introduce the full anticipatory case-study framework you will use for the rest of the course.

Format: Full class · Lesson template: Case / BRAID Analysis

Guiding Questions

• Can a prediction be neutral once its categories are already contested?
• How are ‘normal’ and default groups constructed rather than simply observed?
• What does the full anticipatory case-study framework ask you to examine?

In This Class

In this meeting, we will:

• discuss Sidewalk Toronto as a case of contested categories and concentrated harm
• connect ‘normal’ as constructed to knowledge/power co-production
• introduce the anticipatory case-study framework used in later units