Hello! I’m Silvia Cazacu

📝spell Silvia with two ‘i’s, not ‘y-i’ & pronounce Cazacu as ‘Kah-zah-koo’. TY!

PhD Researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium at SADL

Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at ODECO

Research fellow at The Open Data Institute

🦋 Ongoing Reflections

• Exposing the ‘hands that touch the data’ (to cite data feminist scholars Cathrine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein) through data physicalisation

• Entanglements between power and data in participatory processes

• Infrastructuring as ongoing process towards (more) ethical data practices

✨ Recent Work

• Disentangling the Power Dynamics in Participatory Data Physicalisation Silvia Cazacu, Georgia Panagiotidou, Thérèse Steenberghen, and Andrew Vande Moere. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). arxiv
• The EnviroMapper Toolkit: An Input Physicalisation that Captures the Situated Experience of Environmental Comfort in Offices Silvia Cazacu, Stien Poncelet, Emma Feijtraij, and Andrew Vande Moere.In Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA’25). arxiv

🍳 Something’s Cooking

• April 2025 – Presenting “Disentangling Power Dynamics in Participatory Data Physicalisation” at CHI2025 in Yokohama, Japan

• May 2025 - Organising, presenting, discussing my PhD research under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network initiative ODECO final conference in Athens, Greece

🦄 Thanks for visiting!