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Dear all (and apologies for cross posting),
Just a reminder that the first Data Practices seminar (Design and Social Science Seminar Series 2013-2014) is taking place next Wednesday, the 27th, at Goldsmiths. This seminar features a chaired discussion with the seminar organisers including Jennifer Gabrys, Evelyn Ruppert, Noortje Marres and myself.
Wednesday November 27th
Series introduction: a “thing to talk with”
With Alex Wilkie, Jennifer Gabrys, Evelyn Ruppert & Noortje Marres
16:00 – 18:00 | RHB143
Here's the original announcement for the seminar series:
This is to announce this year's Design and Social Science Seminar series Data Practices, to be held throughout the academic year (2013-2014) at Goldsmiths. Data Practices will explore the burgeoning analytic interest and methodological preoccupation with ‘data’ and the shifting terrain of data practices across design and social science. Incorporating lectures, workshops and demonstrations, the seminar series brings together a resonant range of events on data practices that provoke questions about the formation and force of data, the claims made for and through data, and the altered practices and politics of data.
Presently, and according to recent sociological thought, the social sciences are in the midst of a ‘crisis’ where innovations in and practices associated with ‘big data’ are challenging the discipline’s authority to describe and explain the patterning of social and cultural life. Here, emphasis is placed on the role that information technologies play in the pervasive production and harnessing of social data. In what ways do new modalities of data generate altered regimes of intellectual accountability and governance? How do assemblages of data production that are deployed and administered by institutional actors with primarily commercial or governmental interests give rise to novel forms of biopolitics? And how do changing patterns of data inform the emergence of new sociological methods?
At the same time, therefore, such developments, set alongside developments in ‘digital sociology’ and ‘digital methods’, are viewed as an opportunity for sociology to rejuvenate its methods, where bespoke tools of social research are purposively designed to engage with novel data practices. Sociological methods concerned with data begin to intersect with design in compelling ways, in this way, by bringing questions of the practices of data to the fore.
For design, emerging technologies and practices associated with data production provide opportunities to territorialize novel modes of living. Such data practices may take the form of reworking or speculating on data as a market-based or market-forming activity; or may give rise to design research that explores sociotechnical presents and futures where data practices manifest through distinct socio-material means. Here, arguably, data has a Janus-faced role. On one side data is produced by or as a product of design’s outcomes and the materialization and enactment of social worlds. On the other side, data is a new material for designers to work with and the object of social science research methods.
The seminars are open to all and require no advance booking. Times and locations are noted below and on the attached PDF. All seminars will take place in the Richard Hoggart Building, (RHB) Goldsmiths.
Autumn Term
Wednesday November 27th
Series introduction: a “thing to talk with”
With Alex Wilkie, Jennifer Gabrys, Evelyn Ruppert & Noortje Marres
16:00 – 18:00 | RHB143
Wednesday December 4th
Materialising, practicing and contesting environmental data
Citizen Sense Lab (Goldsmiths)
16:00 – 18:00 | RHB137
Spring Term
Wednesday January 22nd
Through thick and thin: data as source and resource
Interaction Research Studio (Goldsmiths) & Noortje Marres (Goldsmiths)
16:00 – 18:00
RHB137a
Tuesday January 28th
The data practices of citizen science
Jerry Ravetz (University of Oxford) & Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths)
16:00 – 18:00
RHB137
Wednesday February 5th
Dresses and data: methods for making archival materials matter
Kat Jungnickel (Goldsmiths)
16:00 – 18:00
RHB137
Wednesday February 19th
Big data practices: Panel from the Journal Editorial Team, Big Data & Society, SAGE
14:00 – 17:00
RHB137a
Wednesday March 12th
Machines of the code-sharing commons, a mid-way report on a slightly large scale analysis of software repositories
Matt Fuller (Goldsmiths)
16:00 – 18:00
RHB143
Wednesday March 19th
Mapping participation
Chris Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles)
16:00 – 18:00
RHB137
Wednesday April 2nd
Data collaboratories: gleaners, heroes and packers
Adrian MacKenzie (Lancaster University) & Ruth McNally (Anglia Ruskin University)
16:00 – 18:00
RHB137a
Wednesday April 30th
What was visual data?
Isaac Marrero-Guillamon (Goldsmiths) & Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths)
16:00 – 18:00
RHB137a
Friday 23rd May
Database imaginary: from deep sea to flat file and back
Tahani Nadim (Zoological Museum, Berlin)
16:00 – 18:00
RHB137a
best wishes
Alex
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Dr. Alex Wilkie
Programme Leader, MA Design: Interaction Research
Programme Leader, MPhil/PhD Design
Interaction Research Studio
Department of Design
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW, UK
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