This is an invitation to register for
Entanglements: materials, practices and design
Symposium: 5th/ 6th May 2011, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
‘Entanglements’ brings art, craft and design together with the human sciences to explore aspects of our relationships to the material world by thinking about materials themselves.
Symposium Themes
• What are materials? Between raw stuff and human effort
• The effects of stabilisations, closures and re-configuration of materials.
• Materials, objects, experience and playful/ sensual engagement
• Design’s role in practices; making strange/ new materials
• Materials and everyday life, sustainability and transitions
Confirmed speakers:
Tim Ingold: On Making a Hand-axe, Vanessa Brown: Cool and Sunglasses, Tim Dant: Carbon Fibre, Zoe Laughlin: The Performativity of Matter, Yolande Strengers: Competing Agencies of the Smart Energy Meter, Elizabeth Shove: The Material Culture of Room Temperature, Tom Fisher: Air: Medium, Material or Mataerial , Sarah Kettley: Forging a New Community of Craft Practice, Eiluned Edwards: Cloth, Nic Maffei: Gleam Culture: Finding Meaning in Stainless Stee,l Andy Jackson: Understanding the Experience of the Amateur Maker, Sabine Hielscher: Objects, competencies and Sensual Interactions in hair-care, Sophie Woodward: Old Denim Jeans: Interdisciplinary Methods for Understanding Materiality andTransformation
Format
Day 1: 11.30am – 6pm Day 2: 9am – 2.30pm
Enrolment
The cost of the symposium is £60, or £30 for Design Research Society members.
To enrol go to
https://onlinestore.ntu.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid=421&deptid=6&catid=34&prodvarid=0
(DRS members) or
https://onlinestore.ntu.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid=420&deptid=6&catid=34&prodvarid=0
(non DRS members)
Places are limited, so early booking is advised. Some accommodation has been reserved near to the university. To book this or for other enquiries, contact Melanie Bentham-Hill on [log in to unmask]
The symposium is sponsored by Nottingham Trent University and Design Research Society ‘OPEN SiG - Objects, Practices, Experiences, Networks’.
For more information on the Entanglements symposium, on the SiG and information on joining DRS go to: http://www.designresearchsociety.org/joomla/index.php/sig2/opensig.html
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