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Dear colleagues,
We would like to share details of our open track entitled "Unravelling craft, technology and practical knowledge" at the joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Barcelona, August 31 - September 3, 2016.
This hands-on session addresses the re-conceptualisation, re-invention and re-enactment of craft practices in contemporary life. Through creative contributions bringing together craftspeople/practitioners/artists and academics/theorists it will explore intersections of craft and thought, making and knowing, tradition and innovation.
More details below. Please forward to anyone you think might be interested!
Warm regards,
Anna Harris and Ruth Benschop
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Open track at the joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST): "Science and technology by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures", Barcelona, 31 August - 3 September 2016
Unravelling craft, technology and practical knowledge
Organisers: Anna Harris<http://www.annaroseharris.wordpress.com/> and Ruth Benschop<http://www.zuyd.nl/onderzoek/lectoraten/autonomie-en-openbaarheid-in-de-kunsten>, Faculty of Arts, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
Craftwork has long been synonymous with handmade, bodily engagements with tools and materials. New, often digital, technologies are currently reconfiguring craftwork in unexpected ways, and these emerging craft-technology practices are opening up new domains for generative material thinking and sensory practical knowledge. This intersection of craft and thought, making and knowing, tradition and innovation is the focus of this session.
This panel invites creative contributions that engage with the re-conceptualisation, re-invention and re-enactment of craft practices in contemporary life, using a broad definition of craft. We specifically call for reflexive collaborative work that brings craftspeople/practitioners/artists and academics/theorists together in dialogue, not necessarily only verbally.
Topics addressed might include:
* Alternative sites of craft and knowledge production such as the maker movement, fablabs and artistic research
* Intersections between craft and knowledge economy, in cases such as the textile industry
* Cases of sensory knowledge as shaped by/through (digital) technologies
* Changing notions of skilled work and craftsmanship in professional and artistic fields such as architecture, food, design, medicine and engineering
There are increasingly more hybrid, wild research practices reimagining ways of making, thinking and researching. We especially encourage contributions that utilise innovative methodologies - ethnographic experiments, re-enactments, artistic research or multimodal/multisensory design for example - to address shifts from method to craft. In keeping with this approach, the panel explicitly invites contributions that not only reflect on craft practices but also illustrate them with and for participants in a "hands-on" style. To the audience we encourage thinking along, and yes, bring your knitting!
Discussant: Heather Paxson<http://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/heather-paxson>, MIT, author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America
Deadline for submissions: 21 February 2016
If you would like to discuss the relevance of your paper to the open track or how a more practical session might work, then please contact either or both of us: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Links to:
The calls for all the tracks for the 2016 conference<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?View=All%20Themes>
Submit to our panel<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3932>
More details about the conference<http://www.sts2016bcn.org/>
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