Dear all,
Many of you have seen the call for participation for the 4S 2019
conference, to be held in New Orleans between 4 and 7 September
(https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/). Please consider
submitting a proposal for the Making and Doing programme - see details
below and on the M&D 2019 site (https://www.4s2019.org/making_doing/).
With best wishes,
Endre, Elaine and Jen
*Making & Doing at 4S 2019, New Orleans, 4-7 September 2019*
We invite STS practitioners, interdisciplinary and decolonial
artists-scholars, indigenous and queer participants, and assemblage
thinkers-activists to submit proposals for the 2019 Making & Doing
program. In 2015, 2017, and 2018, Making & Doing brought together
critical bodies of work that enact how STS “makes do” beyond traditional
modes of print and publication. In 2019, Making & Doing aims to build on
these and present mobilizations, expressions, and ecologies that call
attention to the multiple ways through which STS travels.
We would love to see proposals that enrich and complicate what it means
to “make” and “do” in times of massive environmental degradation and
anthropogenic climate change. Expanding on Making & Doing itself, what
might it mean to “make do”—that is, to challenge the modernist belief in
a Technoscientific Fix and the neoliberal fallacy that more is always
better? What might it mean to “make do” in New Orleans, a site that
grounds us all in both vibrant and brutal histories and futurities?
To address these questions, we invite 4S members to present experimental
works in any medium that engage speculative, empirical, reflexive and/or
aesthetic approaches to the study of science and technology, broadly
defined. Works might take the form of sonic ethnographies, experimental
videos, diagrams, interactive games, durational performances (by humans
or other species), virtual/augmented reality applications, immersive
projections, cooking demos, or other interventions, mundane patches, and
critical apparatuses that exceed the printed page.
Building on the successes of previous years and opening up to new
possibilities, we encourage 4S members to consider expanded modes of
inquiry, participation, and creative engagement. We are particularly
interested in proposals that move away from representation or the
illustration of research, and instead, actively explore sensorial,
experiential, collaborative, and spatiotemporal media as part of the
research process.
On the 4S submission site
(https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s19) you will be able to
propose a new project for Making & Doing. In addition to a title and a
general description of the project (200 words), we will ask you to
indicate what methods are associated with your project (200 words) and
how it relates to STS and the conference theme (100 words). You will be
able to select which thematic cluster your project belongs to and what
the technical requirements are. (Please keep in mind that 4S can provide
a 6-foot table, but cannot guarantee Internet access and provides no
assistance with supplies, set-up and maintenance during the conference
period.) As part of the submission, you’ll also be able to add a link to
your project and upload an image – both are optional.
If you have questions, please email the Organizing Committee at
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We look forward to your proposals and provocations!
Endre Dányi, Elaine Gan, Jen Henderson
Organizing Committee for Making & Doing
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