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networks of design

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:11:55+02:00October 29th, 2007|conferences/workshops, design, research|0 Comments

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, [...]

speculative realism

Speculative Realism is a philosophical current taking its name from a conference held at Goldsmiths College, University of London in April, 2007. The conference was moderated by Alberto Toscano of Goldsmiths College, and featured presentations by Ray Brassier of Middlesex University, Iain Hamilton Grant of the University of the West of England, Graham Harman of the American University in Cairo, and Quentin Meillassoux of the École normale supérieure in Paris. Credit for the name "speculative realism" is generally ascribed to Brassier, though Meillassoux had already used the term "speculative materialism" (matérialisme spéculatif) to describe his own position. Speculative Realism focuses in providing a robust defense of philosophical realism in the wake of the challenges posed to it by post-Kantian critical idealism, phenomenology, post-modernism, deconstruction, or, more broadly speaking, "correlationism". While often in disagreement over basic philosophical issues, the speculative realist thinkers have a shared resistance to philosophies of human finitude [...]