Conference Announcement: "What Affordance Affords"
November 25-27, 2013 - Darmstadt, Germany
www.goto-objects.eu
The interdisciplinary conference features contributions from the
perspectives of philosophy, sociology, psychology, science studies,
economics, architecture and design. It investigates the concept
‘affordance’, its history and transformations as it traveled through
different research fields and disciplines. The notion of affordance
originates and is frequently identified with ecological thinking, it
appears in considerations about interdependencies and interactions,
about relational configurations and ontologies. Digital objects, smart
materials, chemical devices, robots and the human body, geographical
information systems and neuronal activity, hydrological infrastructure
and landscape parks – all of these are presented and discussed as
providing or being affordances. A variety of epistemological positions
will be defended, different ontological claims advanced and relevant
background theories invoked. There will be advocates of the notion and
its heuristic value, and skeptics seeking to critique its current
popularity.
Speakers include Adrian Alsmith, Marcel Boumans, Claudia Carello, Harry
Collins, Karmen Franinović, Hajo Greif, Rom Harré, Harry Heft, Jannis
Kallinikos, Montana Katz, Irene Klaver, Alexander Koutamanis, Peter
Kroes and Maarten Franssen, Joel Krueger, Yvonne Latham, Jean-Pierre
Llored, Lorenzo Magnani, Paul Micklethwaite, Jens Ortmann, Hans Jörg
Rheinberger, Eran Tal, Michael Turvey, Emre Ugur and Erol Şahin, Cees
van Leeuwen, Catharine Ward Thompson.
The conference is part of a DFG and ANR-funded project on the genesis
and ontology of technoscientific objects: www. goto-objects.eu - it has
been organized by Astrid Schwarz: [log in to unmask] - if you
plan to attend, please send a short note to Jutta Braun:
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