Welcome to the STREET Lab
STREET (Socio-Technical ResistancE and Ethical Technologies) Lab is an interdisciplinary research collective at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, and housed at the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI). The lab is focused on understanding and supporting the sociotechnical practices of marginalized communities around the world, with an emphasis on resistance, informality, and social justice. (see Research)
Our research is influenced by Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information and Communication Technologies & Development (ICTD), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Social Computing, Development Studies, Political Science, Feminist and Queer theories, Postcolonial Studies, and Critical Theory.
Our work is funded by NSERC, SSHRC, UofT’s School of Cities, SDGs@UofT, among others.
We currently do not have any research assistant positions at the Lab but are open to Masters Thesis or incoming/current PhD students (more info)
News
August 18, 2025
Aarhus 2025 Workshop: 'Reimagining Social Media and Social Movements in Crisis'
July 17, 2025
SSHRC Insight Development Grants (IDG) Grant: 'ICTs, Diasporic Social Movements, and Transnational Repression'
April 07, 2025
SDG@UofT Synthesis Grant Award: 'Precarity in the City: Environmental hazards and Gig Labour in Urban India'
February 15, 2025
2024-25 Black, Indigenous, Racialized Scholar/Research Fellowship: 'The Afterlife of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Coalitions - ICTs, Coalitions, and Social Movements'