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It proposes situating, figuration, diffraction, and critical fabulation/speculation as methods that can be productively operationalized in ML system design. The paper argues that interdisciplinary actualisation depends less on translation and more on transposition: a creative, critical adaptation of feminist theory into machine learning contexts for grounded, responsible practice.","Feminist epistemology for machine learning systems design  \nGoda Klumbytė  \nDepartment of Participatory IT Design, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kassel, [goda.klumbyte@uni-kassel.de](goda.klumbyte@uni-kassel.de)  \nHannah Piehl  \nDepartment of Participatory IT Design, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kassel, [hannah.piehl@stud.uni-frankfurt.de](hannah.piehl@stud.uni-frankfurt.de)  \nClaude Draude  \nDepartment of Participatory IT Design, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kassel, claude.draude@uni-kassel.de  \nThis workshop paper presents a series of feminist epistemological concepts as tools for developing critical, more accountable, and contextualised approaches to machine learning systems design. Namely, we suggest tha t the methods of situated knowledges or situating, figurations or figuring, diffraction or diffracting, and critical fabulation or speculation can be productively actualised in the field of machine learning systems design. We also suggest that the meta-method for doing this actualisation requires not so much translation but transposition – a creative and critical adaptation to speak to machine learning contexts.  \nCCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing • Interaction design • Interaction design process and methods  \n• Computing methodologies • Machine learning  \nAdditional Keywords and Phrases: Feminist epistemology, Situated knowledges, Figurations, Diffraction, Critical fabulation, Machine learning systems design  \nACM Reference Format:  \nGoda Klumbytė, Hannah Piehl, and Claude Draude. 2023. Feminist epistemology for machine learning systems design. Workshop: A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder: Theories and methods that can make a difference, Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing CSCW ’23, October 14-18, 2023, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 5 pages.  \n1 INTRODUCTION  \nFeminist approaches and concepts have been increasingly used in HCI [1, 2, 3, 4] . With focus on fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics in and ofAI/machine learning (ML) systems and their design and emergence of human-centred AI/ML paradigms [5, 6, 7], feminist concepts are gaining ground in AI/ML systems design as well [8, 9, 10] . Here we present our experience of working with feminist epistemology and specifically the methods of situated knowledges, figuration, diffraction, and critical fabulation/speculation to develop more grounded, contextualised, and accountable approaches to ML systems design. We argue that a meta-method for doing such interdisciplinary work is transposition [11,  \n12]. In music, transposition refers to a variation of melody produced in a different register. In feminist ethics [11] and in our work, it deals with finding creative and critical ways to actualise critical concepts from feminist theory for a context of ML systems design. We first introduce the concepts that we worked with and then describe the main outcomes of such work.  \n2 SITUATED KNOWLEDGES, FIGURATIONS, DIFFRACTION, AND CRITICAL FABULATION  \nThe method of situating stems from the concept of situated knowledges and draws on Black feminist scholarship [13] as well as feminist epistemological concerns [14, 15, 16] . It describes how knowledge cannot be seen as universal, objective, or neutral, but rather is partial and always embedded in its contexts [14, 17], and structured by various intersecting positionalities [13] . Closely related to standpoint theory [18, 19, 20], the concept of situated knowledges suggests that (scientific and technological) knowledge is to be understood with regard to the embodied and embedded perspectives it was produced in. Through acknowledging this partiality and grounding different perspectives in their broader technological, social, political, cultural context, one is able to situate knowledge and foster response-ability [13, 14]. 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