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Dear Colleagues, Just a quick reminder that the deadline for paper proposals to the panel New directions in anthropology, architecture and design, to be held at the ASA 2015 Conference in Exeter, UK, on the 13th-16th April 2015,is fast approaching! Please find the original call for papers below. Papers may be proposed via the panel page on the ASA website, until midnight on Monday, 1st December, 2014: This panel will explore synergies across anthropology, architecture and design, understood as modes of inquiry and aesthetic production. Following Tim Ingold's lead, the panel invites anthropologists and practitioners to focus on processes of making entailed in the production of new and experimental social and cultural forms. If all knowing can proceed only through real, local and material engagement, then this must apply to anthropology as well. Knowledge is not what can be said about the world; it is rather a way of making the world. The emergence of the creative commons, along with contemporary experimental interventions by citizens in many parts of the world, calls for new collaborative methodologies. Practices such as local, sustainable food provisioning and the use of alternative currencies, or the autonomous construction of distributed 'home' environments, could be understood as 'aesthetic productions', redesigning a 'self' which breaks the bounds of the neo-liberal subject. The disciplines of architecture and design have long been accustomed to confronting and cooperating with materials, places, and people, and have much experience to offer in this area. They have already developed collaborative and participatory methodologies which hold promise for anthropology. Architects Alberto Altés and Oren Lieberman propose the notion of 'intraventions'. Focusing to the collective production of the common, they develop situated and collective ways of doing and making immediately, transversally and diffractively. We call for papers which contribute to the creation of a conceptual and methodological common ground, and to laying We call for papers which contribute to the creation of a conceptual and methodological common ground, and to laying the foundations for innovative, responsible, generous, sustainable aesthetic productions. Please send your paper proposal directly to ASA15 using the the link bellow. Convenors Fabiola Jara Gomez (Utrecht University) Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) Cristina Grasseni (Utrecht University) Alberto Altes Arlandis (Umeå University) http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3367 Dr. Fabiola Jara Gomez, Docent /Onderzoeker Culturele Antropologie Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen Universiteit Utrecht. E-mail adres: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ; Padualaan 14 kamer A228 de Uithof Utrecht Spreekuur/ consult hours (op afspraak): dinsdagen tussen 14 en 16.30. Op afspraak. Bel hiervoor 030 2532111 ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************