3-6 September, 2008
University College Falmouth
Cornwall UK

Networks of Design “responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of interactions that inform knowledge formation and design. Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things.”

Thematic Strands

Networks of Texts: including images, documents & databases
Networks of Ideas: including theories, disciplines & concepts (among them ANT)
Networks of Technology: including mechanical & virtual technologies
Networks of Things: including material & technological artefacts
Networks of People: including collectives & individuals

The themes will be composed of a number of sub-strands that may include panels on particular aspects of networks of sustainability, the media, gender, consumerism, ‘race,’ globalisation, communication, leisure, tourism, the exotic, actor network theory, theory and practice, metaphor, memory, cross-cultural networks, inter-disciplinary networks (art, craft, architecture, design, science), professional networks, networks of practice, narrative, or dissemination

http://www.networksofdesign.co.uk/