Dear all

We would like to invite you to participate in a workshop on mobilities &
design with:
 
Ole B. Jensen - Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies, Aalborg
University, Denmark
Thomas Binder, Danish Design School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paul Coulton, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster
University

Nick Dunn, Imagination, Lancaster University

Anne Galloway, School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
(Video/Skype)

Kim Sawchuk, Mobile Media Lab, Concordia University, Canada (Video/Skype)

Jesper Simonsen, Department of Communication, Business, and Information
Technologies, Roskilde University, Denmark


Please find details below and at:

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/mobilities-and-design/


It'd be great if you could come.

Please register at

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mobilities-and-design-registration-1098886499
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The event is free.

Feel free to forward to others who have an interest. There is a limit of
30 participants.

Looking forward to seeing you in Lancaster,

Monika, Ole, Dennis & Michael





Mobilities & Design - 29-30 April, Lancaster University, Conference Centre
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The most interesting and productive design approaches and theories today
draw on science and technology studies, phenomenology, feminist theory and
process philosophy and, more recently, mobilities research to explore ways
of Œstaging¹ mobilities (Jensen 2014), to acknowledge the Œworlding¹ of
design through approaches of Œdesign in use¹, Œdesign after design or
Œthing design¹ (Binder et al. 2011), and to develop inventive,
collaborative and mobile methods that seek to insert design creatively,
accountably and radically carefully into the indigenous inventiveness
(Suchman 2002, Latour 2008, Simonsen et al. 2010, Sangiorgi 2011, Lury and
Wakeford 2012, Owen and Sawchuk 2012, Kimbell 2013). There is a need to
respond creatively and circumspectly to the Œtransductions¹ that ensue
from the ontogenetic joining of designed objects into the flux of everyday
life ­ especially around the technicity of code in urban code/space
(Mackenzie 2006, Kitchin and Dodge 2011, Southern 2012). This requires
engagement with design publics (Nowotny et al. 2001, Latour & Weibel 2005,
Yaneva 2012, Clark 2013) and forms of design that can engender multi-party
experimentation, such as speculative, critical design and design noir
(Dunne and Raby 2001, Wilkie and Michael 2011, Michael 2012, Galloway
2013, Marres 2013), effects driven design (Hertzum & Simonsen 2011),
gameful design (Coulton 2013), and the use of mapping, narrative and
interpretation in collaborative urban design (Brook & Dunn 2011). Last,
but not least, studies of existing and emergent future practices are
critical for anchoring invention in an understanding of everyday life and
often part of design (Büscher 2005, Brown 2013, Shove 2012). In this
workshop we bring a selection of practitioners and scholars from
mobilities research and design together to explore the analytical and
creative leverage enabled by mobilising design in view of some of the most
pressing challenges and opportunities in contemporary urban life.

Speakers
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Thomas Binder, Danish Design School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Thomas Binder is an associate professor at The Danish Design School. His
research is about understanding how design processes generate new
knowledge, and how an emphasis on knowledge building and learning can
connect the designer¹s classic design skills with more open design
processes based on dialogue with users, for example in the fields of
service design, strategic development and change processes.

Paul Coulton, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster
University
Paul's main research interests relate to the theories and practices
associated with the design of novel hybrid physical/digital interactive
games, playful experiences and artefacts. A significant proportion of this
research is conducted using techniques he helped pioneer relating to an,
'in the wild' evaluation methodology utilising 'app stores' and social
networks as an experimental platform. His work also encompasses both the
non-entertainment use of Œgameful design¹ across a range of application
areas and, Increasingly, the use of Design Fiction as a way of exploring
digital futures for areas such as the Internet of Things and Digital
Empathy

Nick Dunn, Imagination, Lancaster University
Nick Dunn is Professor of Urban Design at ImaginationLancaster and
Associate Director of Research of the Lancaster Institute for the
Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University. He is formerly of the
Manchester School of Architecture where he was Principal Lecturer,
Director of Studies and Co-director of the [Re_Map] atelier, whose
research is concerned with the mapping and representation of urban
networks, data and conditions. His work responds to the contemporary city
as a series of systems, flows and processes, and is explored through
experimentation and discourse addressing the nature of urban space: its
perception, demarcation and appropriation.

Anne Galloway, Design Culture Lab, New Zealand - Aotearoa NZ (Video/Skype)
My research brings together social studies of science and technology,
cultural studies, and design to explore relations between humans and
nonhumans. I am particularly interested in creative research methods for
understanding - and supporting public engagement with - issues and
controversies related to science, technology and animals. My current
research, supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund,
combines ethnography and speculative design to create possible future
scenarios for the use of wireless technologies in the production and
consumption of NZ merino.

Ole B Jensen, Department of Architecture and Media Technology
Ole is professor of Urban Theory in the Department of Architecture and
Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His background is in
sociology and associated to the Urban Design research group. My research
interests are within the fields of mobilities research, urban studies,
urban design, infrastructure architectures and city branding/cultural
planning. Ole is a board member of the Center for Mobility and Urban
Studies (C-MUS, http://www.c-mus.aau.dk/) at Aalborg University, and on
the Cosmobilities Network Taskforce
(http://www.cosmobilities.net/network.php). He is affiliated to the
Pan-American Mobilites Network, and have strong links to Centre for
Mobilities Research (CeMore, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/),
Lancaster University, UK and The Center for Mobilities Research and Policy
(mCenter, http://mcenterdrexel.wordpress.com/), Drexel University,
Philadelphia, USA.

Kim Sawchuk, Mobile Media Lab, Department of Communication Studies,
Concordia University, Canada (Video/Skype)
Professor Kim Sawchuk is the editor of the Canadian Journal of
Communication (www.cjc-online.ca) and co-editor of wi: journal of mobile
media (www.wi-not.ca). A feminist media studies scholar, her research and
writing has long addressed the relationship between embodiment, discourses
and experiences of technology. Her current work on this subject traverses
two major areas: wireless, mobile communications and biomedical imaging.
She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies,
University of Bologna. She was also an invited lecturer at the University
of Silesia, Poland and the University of Lancaster and the University of
Manchester, England.

Jesper Simonsen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Jesper is Professor of Participatory Design in the Department of
Communication, Business, and Information Technologies, Roskilde
University, Denmark. He is also Director at the University Strategic
Research Initiative Designing Human Technologies. Since 1991 he has
conducted Participatory Design research in collaboration with industry -
focussed on how information technology designers can cooperate with users
and their management especially when relating to the clarification of
goals, formulation of needs, and design and evaluation of coherent visions
for change.



Preliminary Programme
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29th April 2014

11:00 ­ 11:30    Introduction: Mobilities & Design - Monika Buscher, Ole
Jensen, Dennis Zuev
11:30 ­ 12:30    Imaginarium - Themes & People
12:30 ­ 13:30    Lunch
13:30 ­ 14:15    Mobilities Design - towards a new Œmaterial turn¹ - Ole
B. Jensen
14:15 ­ 15:00 Nick Dunn
15:00 ­ 15:30 Kim Sawchuk (Video/Skype)
15:30 ­ 16:00    Coffee
16:00 ­ 16:30 Jesper Simonsen
16:30 ­ 17:00 Anne Galloway (Video/Skype)
17:00 ­ 18:00 Imaginarium & Play
19:00 ­       Dinner

 
30th April
09:00 ­ 09:30    Coffee & Q&A with Anne ­ about sheep
09:30 ­ 10:00 Allison Hui
10:00 ­ 10:30    Game Design as Rhetoric - Paul Coulton
10:30 ­ 11:00    Coffee
11:00 ­ 11:30 Thomas Binder
11:30 ­ 12:30    Closing Discussion
12:30 ­       Lunch & End
 
 

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