The New Experimentalisms
A one day workshop at CISP/Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths,
University of London
Tuesday September 20th 2016, 10-5pm
Room RHB 137a
Organized by Michael Guggenheim, Dan Neyland, Alex Wilkie
Recent Science and Technology Studies (STS) work on experiments has
provided a basis for rethinking the terms, practices and consequences of
experimentation. This has opened up opportunities to question, for
example, experimental controls, provocative containments, training and
professional practice. This work has also broadened the traditional STS
focus on scientific laboratories to also include economic, social
scientific and commercial experimentation, exploring new territories of
experimentation and their attendant means of reproducing the world.
At the same time, scholars in STS, Sociology, Anthropology and Design
have pursued experiments not just as an object of study, but also as
something to do. Here we find, for example, experiments with algorithmic
walks, expertise and issues. An earlier critique of experiments as
artificial and interventionist has given way to a new embracing of
material staging of situations and problems.
Social researchers have come to acknowledge we can learn precisely
because of the non-naturalism of experiments. Experiments have become
legitimate forms to intervene in the world, and to invent new worlds.
In this way STS scholars have begun to think again about the realities
in which they participate. In this workshop we will feature recent
experimenters within STS with scholars who have analysed experiments in
specific fields.
Programme:
10.00: Welcome
10.15-11.30: *Pelle Ehn* (Design, Malmö):
/democratic design experiments (in the small)/
Commentator: Kim Kullmann (Sociology, Goldmsiths)
11.45-1pm: *Tomás Sánchez Criado* (STS, Munich):
/The Ethnographic Experiment, Revisited: Experimental Collaborations, or
the ‘Devicing' of Fieldwork for Joint Problem-Making/
Commentator: Isaac Marrero-Guillamón (Anthropology, Goldsmiths)
1pm – 2pm: lunch
2pm-3.15pm: *Claire Waterton* (Sociology, Lancaster):
/An Experimental Collective: Working Through Modalities and the
Enrichment of Land and Water/
Commentator: Jennifer Gabrys (Sociology, Goldsmiths)
3.30pm-4.45pm: *Tobias Bornakke Jørgensen* (Sociology, Copenhagen):
/Sensing Data: The Emergence of Sensor-Based Experiments in the Social
Sciences/
Commentator: Noortje Marres (Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick)
Attendance is free but places are limited, please register with Carole
Keegan: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
For further information please contact: [log in to unmask]
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