Networks of Design 2008 Conference of the Design History Society
University College Falmouth
September 3rd – 6th 2008
The theme Networks of Design responds to recent academic interest in the
fields of design, technology and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of
interactions within processes of knowledge formation. The interest in
networks emerges from actor-network theory (ANT) and the work of, among
others, the social theorist Bruno Latour who, along with the international
designer and Droog collaborator Jurgen Bey, is a keynote speaker at the
conference.
Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes,
strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between
people and things. Within the wider context of post-modernism we are, it
seems, experiencing a paradigm shift in design history and this conference
offers an opportunity to address, explore and assess that shift, providing
a platform for international debate and exchange.
Networks can include people, social groups, artefacts, devices, entities
and ideas. Papers will be organised around five broad themes:
Networks of People including collectives and individuals
Networks of Texts including images, documents, databases
Networks of Technology including mechanical and virtual technologies
Networks of Things including material and technological artefacts
Networks of ideas including theories, disciplines and concepts (among them
design history and ANT)
Proposals for papers are welcome from individuals and/or panels (of not
more than three papers). Please visit the web site:
http://www.networksofdesign.co.uk/ or email Fiona Hackney at
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End of Call for Papers: 25th February 2008
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