Dear List, here is a call for abstracts for our Workshop associated with the Design Research Conference Bangkok 2012. This might be of interest to some of you: We are looking for researchers that are looking at Humans and Technology Relationships, if you are passionate about the topic here is the call:
DRC Bangkok 2012 Workshop: Humans and Technology
Relationship
CALL FOR ABSTRACT PROPOSALS
Dates: Deadline for abstracts 29 February 2012
Dates: Workshop 1 July 2012
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Website: http://drs2012bangkok.org/index.php?page=Workshops#workshop9
This workshop invites paper presentations discussing the
relationship between humans and technology and how this relationship informs
design.
Recent debates in the fields of artificial consciousness,
human enhancement, technology design and art, amongst others, indicate that
there is a crisis in the current perception of the relationship between humans
and technology. The disputes and deliberations exploring this crisis are
pivoting around two opposing views: Posthumanism and Technoantagonism.
Posthumanism, gaining wide-spread support from
philosophers, artists and technology designers argues that humans cannot be
seen as separate from their natural and technological environment. That
consciousness spreads beyond the confines of the brain, through body’s
technological extensions into an ever-changing system.
Technoantagonsim offers a conflictingly diverse vision,
believing the relationship between humans and technology to be of antagonistic
nature and any radical technological agency behind change as having the ability
to distress, dislodge and ultimately destroy an inherent human nature or soul.
Both
fractions, however, place strong emphases on the importance active debates have
within the field and the impact these have on any practical development of new
and emerging technologies which further impacts upon the relationship between
humans and their technological environment.
This is a call for papers that consider practical,
theoretical and philosophical positions that place the relationship between
humans and technology at its pivotal core. These papers could discuss new and
emerging technologies and their applications, philosophical positions within
the field, technology design theory amongst many other subjects, however they
have to contribute and consider the debate that explores and pushes the
boundaries of our current understanding of the relationship between humans and
technology.
Submissions:
Please prepare an abstract submission of a maximum of 500
words including title, your names and affiliations and references and send it
to [log in to unmask] before 29
February 2012. All abstracts will be pier reviewed. Further information will
follow by e-mail.
Important dates:
29 February 2012: Abstracts submission
30 March 2012: Paper submission
15 April 2012: Accepted papers notifications and reviews
30 April 2012: Deadline for the presenters registration
15 May 2012: Final papers submissions
1 July 2012: Workshop will take place
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