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Making Things Better - a series of public lectures and seminars brought to you by UCL and The British Museum (sponsored by Novartis and The Wellcome Trust).
Date: Thurs Feb 9
Time: 4.30pm-6.00pm
Venue: Sackler Room, Clore Education Centre, The British Museum, Great Russell St, London
Titled "Technologies of the Imagination", the panel will involve presentations by:
Rebecca Empson (Cambridge) - prophetic regimes in Mongolia
James Leach (Cambridge) - Open Source software designers in Europe.
Exploring ethnographically the ways in which diverse and often unexpected imaginative effects are generated by people's interactions with specific and culturally salient objects, the presenters will be exploring how their subjects engage with different forms of technology in their attempts to grapple with what they perceive as a 'runaway present', and how these engagements generate contrasting imaginative effects in each case. While Mongols' prophetic interpretations of the contemporary world anticipate future calamity, open software designers envision their practices as interventions that will bring about a utopian state of freedom.
The presentations will be introduced by David Sneath (Cambridge) and discussed by Martin Holbraad (UCL) and Morten Pedersen (Copenhagen) - the three co-editors of an upcoming volume on Technologies of the Imagination.
The five panelists are participants on an ongoing collaborative project on this theme that also includes Lars Hojer, Caroline Humphrey, David Napier, Charles Stafford and Henrik Vigh.
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