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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, [...]