A never-ending story
All I want to do is roll Katamari.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE OF URBAN COMPUTING AND LOCATIVE MEDIA
by Anne Galloway
Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
To be defended in public on Friday 11 July, 2008 at 09:00 in Loeb Building A715
(image fibre design)
Supervisor
Rob Shields, Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor, Sociology and Art & Design, University of Alberta
Committee
Gitte Lindgaard, NSERC/Cognos Chair and Professor, Psychology, Director Human Oriented Technology Lab, Carleton University
Carlos Novas, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Carleton University
External Examiner
Mike Michael, Professor, Sociology, Goldsmith’s College, University of London
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Read the introduction (pdf)
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Labels: made of win
Networks of Design
3-6 September, 2008
University College Falmouth
Cornwall UK
Networks of Design "responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of interactions that inform knowledge formation and design. Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things."
Thematic Strands
Networks of Texts: including images, documents & databases
Networks of Ideas: including theories, disciplines & concepts (among them ANT)
Networks of Technology: including mechanical & virtual technologies
Networks of Things: including material & technological artefacts
Networks of People: including collectives & individuals
Labels: anthropology, conferences, design, sociology
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