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>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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>http://www.ist-palcom.org/activities/matterealities
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>matterealities, mobilities, innovation. Karen Barad @ Lancaster
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>In the detailed how of 'how matter comes to matter' (Barad 2003) the
social
>is inextricably conjoined with the material. However, the very practices
>that join also often conceal such entanglement. In this
interdisciplinary
>workshop we seek to explore a particular set of connections between
>'matterealities', mobilities and innovation:
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>Matterealities: As new computing, sensor and actuator technologies
become
>increasingly powerful and small, they converge with everyday materials,
>including the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, and the places we
live,
>play and work in. Whereas research into socio-technical settings and
>practices has tended to look at 'the virtual' (cyberspace and life
online),
>research must now also look towards the physical and to the
>'materealization' of socio-technical reality. How can interdisciplinary
>insights and approaches come together productively and creatively?
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>Mobilities: A new 'movement-driven' social science (Urry 2007) is
emerging,
>in which movement, potential movement and blocked movement are
>conceptualised as constitutive of economic, social, political,
>environmental and material relations.
>How do mobilities depend on and, at the same time, help produce material
>infrastructures? How does matter move? How are material agencies
mobilized?
>How can we mobilize interdisciplinary initiatives to investigate these
>questions?
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>Innovation: With everything in flux, viable and desirable innovation
cannot
>be a top-down, mainly conceptual process. It has to be experimental and
>participatory, engaging all - material and human - agencies. Can
studies of
>how matter comes to matter inform innovation?
>Can they foster participation and bottom-up innovation?
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>For this workshop we invite participation from a broad field of
interested
>parties, spanning the natural sciences, art, design, engineering,
>humanities, the social sciences, the public and commerical or industrial
>organizations.
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>IMPORTANT DATES
>A maximum of 40 participants can be accepted. Registration takes
place on a
>first come first served basis.
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>The deadline for registration is 12 October. Registration will cost
>approximately £ 80.00. Details will be published on our website:
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>http://www.ist-palcom.org/activities/matterealities
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>A limited number of student bursaries are available. For information
about
>these or an expression of interest please contact
>m.buscher(at)lancaster.ac.uk
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>WITH ART BY
>Fiona Jane Candy, UK - http://www.a-brand.co.uk Irene Janze and Anton
>Dekker, The Netherlands, http://home.tiscali.nl/burojanze/ Dr.
Jennifer G.
>Sheridan, Alice Bayliss, Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns
>http://www.jennifersheridan.com/
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>ORGANIZERS
>Buscher, Monika, mobilities.lab, Lancaster University -
>m.buscher@... Coulton, Paul, Infolab21, Lancaster
University -
>p.coulton@... Dennis, Kingsley, mobilities.lab, Lancaster
>University - k.dennis1@... Hemment, Drew,
Imagination@Lancaster
>- hemment@... Rooksby, John, Infolab21, Lancaster
>University - rooksby@... Sangiorgi, Daniela,
>Imagination@Lancaster - d.sangiorgi@...
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