Designing indistinct systems: theory and practice of transdisciplinary research
Rolf Hughes and Ronald Jones
Experience Design Group, Deprtment of Interdisciplinary Studies, Konstfack
The aim of the workshop is to compare the claims made for, through and in artistic research to those promised by transdisciplinary research methodologies. Rolf Hughes will introduce the core concepts of practice-based research and discuss whether these are rapidly becoming institutional “orthodoxies”. Ronald Jones will then present an introduction to transdisciplinary premises and potentialities. Rolf Hughes will then provide a theoretical framing of disciplinary logics such as “borders”, “edges”, “material” and substance”, relating such theoretical concepts to a methodology we are developing at the Experience Design group (EDG) around trandsisciplinary research in practice. Ronald Jones will conclude the presentation with a discussion of existing transdisciplinary case studies in research and in artistic practice, including a new EDG research project funded by the Swedish Knoweldge Foundation (KK-Stiftelsen) on the theme Experience Design: The Future of Play.
13.00 8th December, Svarta Havet
DESIGN ME A TOASTER
Ronald Jones
Experience Design Group, Konstfack
The creative disciplines are undergoing the most significant paradigm shift in living memory prompting substantial adjustments to the core-values at some university art, design and architecture programs. As a result, a few of the most advanced programs in the world are educating designers, artists and architects with one goal: to make optimal impact in bringing rapid change to increasingly complex problems to give their graduates greater reach, responsibility, influence and relevance.
15.00 9th December, Svarta Havet
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Friday, 28 November 2008
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice
Seminar
Saturday 6 December
1 pm – late (exhibition open from 11am)
Venue: Konstnärsnämnden, Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm
Free entrance, pre-registration only (limited availability): osa@iaspis.se
Language: English
Bar with food and drinks
Welcome to Iaspis seminar on design and critical practice!
Participants: Julia Born; Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell, Europa; James Goggin, Practice; Emily King; Zak Kyes; Armand Mevis, Mevis en van Deursen; Nille Svensson, Sweden Graphics
+ Ramia Mazé; Sara Kristoffersson; Jonas Williamsson, Reala; Martin Frostner; Magnus Ericson, Iaspis
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice comprises an exhibition, a seminar and a forthcoming publication on investigative, speculative and critical design practice.
What constitutes a critical approach in graphic design? What kind of strategies and methods are used by the practitioners in this field? What external conditions influence this kind of practice? What is the relation between critical practices in design, architecture and art?
Iaspis brings together several critical voices in contemporary graphic design, including Forms of Inquiry contributors, as well as curators, critics, and educators to discuss these issues, based on topics investigated within Forms of Inquiry and a set of conversations initiated for the seminar and the publication. Through an open format and a series of lectures, conversations and debates, the seminar aims to further discuss the importance and position of investigative, speculative and critical design practice.
As a manifestation, Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice intends to facilitate international exchange of ideas and knowledge within an expanded field of design. It aims to be a space for reflection and debate and to inspire to further studies, exchange and actions within the field of design, architecture and art. The reader will be co-published in 2009 by Iaspis and Sternberg Press.
Program Saturday 6 December
The seminar starts at 1 pm and continues until approximately 10pm. In the Project Room and Studio at Iaspis. The program includes breaks. You are free to decide what parts of the program you would like to attend (doors will be open). Coffee, tea, food and drinks will be served from the bar (Please note, cash only). Limited availability, pre-registration only.
1pm Introduction
by Magnus Ericson, Project Manager Iaspis, Jonas Williamson, Martin Frostner and Moderator Emily King
1.30pm Zak Kyes
Lecture on the exhibition Forms of Inquiry: the Architecture of Critical Graphic design
2.30pm Julia Born
Lecture on Secret Instructions and This Side Up, and her collaboration with the Swiss performance artist Alexandra Bachzetsis
Break
4pm James Goggin, Practice
Lecture on historical precedents of self-initiation and publishing in graphic design
5pm James Goggin, Practice och Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell; Europa
Conversation where Europa and Practise compare contemporary interpretations of ‘relational design’.-- both as strategy and as something already inherent -- with their own graphic design practices
6pm Armand Mevis, Mevis en van Deursen
Lecture: Simple ideas, easy work! On Mevis en van Deursen practice and projects such as the identity for Museum Boijmans van Beuningen etc.
Break (food and drinks are available from the bar)
8pm Nille Svensson, Sweden Graphics
A conversation with Emily King about design and ideology
9pm Reflections + Open discussion
Sara Kristofferson, Ramia Mazé and others
Bar
Iaspis
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international program for visual artists
Konstnärsnämnden
Maria Skolgata 83
118 53 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 (0) 8-50 65 50 00
http://www.iaspis.com
Saturday 6 December
1 pm – late (exhibition open from 11am)
Venue: Konstnärsnämnden, Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm
Free entrance, pre-registration only (limited availability): osa@iaspis.se
Language: English
Bar with food and drinks
Welcome to Iaspis seminar on design and critical practice!
Participants: Julia Born; Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell, Europa; James Goggin, Practice; Emily King; Zak Kyes; Armand Mevis, Mevis en van Deursen; Nille Svensson, Sweden Graphics
+ Ramia Mazé; Sara Kristoffersson; Jonas Williamsson, Reala; Martin Frostner; Magnus Ericson, Iaspis
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice comprises an exhibition, a seminar and a forthcoming publication on investigative, speculative and critical design practice.
What constitutes a critical approach in graphic design? What kind of strategies and methods are used by the practitioners in this field? What external conditions influence this kind of practice? What is the relation between critical practices in design, architecture and art?
Iaspis brings together several critical voices in contemporary graphic design, including Forms of Inquiry contributors, as well as curators, critics, and educators to discuss these issues, based on topics investigated within Forms of Inquiry and a set of conversations initiated for the seminar and the publication. Through an open format and a series of lectures, conversations and debates, the seminar aims to further discuss the importance and position of investigative, speculative and critical design practice.
As a manifestation, Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice intends to facilitate international exchange of ideas and knowledge within an expanded field of design. It aims to be a space for reflection and debate and to inspire to further studies, exchange and actions within the field of design, architecture and art. The reader will be co-published in 2009 by Iaspis and Sternberg Press.
Program Saturday 6 December
The seminar starts at 1 pm and continues until approximately 10pm. In the Project Room and Studio at Iaspis. The program includes breaks. You are free to decide what parts of the program you would like to attend (doors will be open). Coffee, tea, food and drinks will be served from the bar (Please note, cash only). Limited availability, pre-registration only.
1pm Introduction
by Magnus Ericson, Project Manager Iaspis, Jonas Williamson, Martin Frostner and Moderator Emily King
1.30pm Zak Kyes
Lecture on the exhibition Forms of Inquiry: the Architecture of Critical Graphic design
2.30pm Julia Born
Lecture on Secret Instructions and This Side Up, and her collaboration with the Swiss performance artist Alexandra Bachzetsis
Break
4pm James Goggin, Practice
Lecture on historical precedents of self-initiation and publishing in graphic design
5pm James Goggin, Practice och Mia Frostner, Robert Sollis, Paul Tisdell; Europa
Conversation where Europa and Practise compare contemporary interpretations of ‘relational design’.-- both as strategy and as something already inherent -- with their own graphic design practices
6pm Armand Mevis, Mevis en van Deursen
Lecture: Simple ideas, easy work! On Mevis en van Deursen practice and projects such as the identity for Museum Boijmans van Beuningen etc.
Break (food and drinks are available from the bar)
8pm Nille Svensson, Sweden Graphics
A conversation with Emily King about design and ideology
9pm Reflections + Open discussion
Sara Kristofferson, Ramia Mazé and others
Bar
Iaspis
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international program for visual artists
Konstnärsnämnden
Maria Skolgata 83
118 53 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 (0) 8-50 65 50 00
http://www.iaspis.com
THIS FORM FOLLOWS YOUR PERFORMANCE
Alex Schweder
THIS FORM FOLLOWS YOUR PERFORMANCE
The relationship between occupied spaces and occupying bodies is a shifting one; we subjectively make our built world; thereafter it constructs us as occupying subjects. Working at the intersection of art and architecture, I understand our built environment as a site for playing out fantasies about our bodies. Drawing from a history of buildings designed around perfect bodies, my work seeks to expand this discourse to the experience of lived fleshy bodies. Architecture does not often pose difficult questions to its occupying bodies; art does not often publicly explore uncomfortable topics outside of museums and private spaces. However, at their intersection art and architecture might more productively explore the complicated facets of being human.
Speaker: Alex Schweder is the 2005–2006 Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture. Since this time, Schweder has been experimenting with time and performance based architecture including Flatland at New York's Sculpture Center 2007, This Apple Tastes Like Our Living Room Used to Smell presented at Western Bridge in Seattle 2007, Melting Instructions presented at the Tacoma Art Museum 2007, Homing MacGuffin during New York's Homebase III project 2008, The End of Endless to be presented at the Santa Fe Center For Contemporary Art 2009, and A Sac of Rooms All Day Long to be shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2009. His work has also been exhibited nationally and internationally including Henry Urbach Architecture in New York, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, and the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma. Schweder is the author of 'Stalls Between Walls', in Ladies and Gents, the Gendering of Public Toilets. He is a three time artist in residence at the Kohler company and will be in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Fall of 09. Schweder has been a guest professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in the Fall 07 for the seminar How to Perform Your Own Building. He holds a Masters in Architecture from Princeton University (1998) and a Bachelor in Architecture from Pratt Institute (1993).
More.
THIS FORM FOLLOWS YOUR PERFORMANCE
The relationship between occupied spaces and occupying bodies is a shifting one; we subjectively make our built world; thereafter it constructs us as occupying subjects. Working at the intersection of art and architecture, I understand our built environment as a site for playing out fantasies about our bodies. Drawing from a history of buildings designed around perfect bodies, my work seeks to expand this discourse to the experience of lived fleshy bodies. Architecture does not often pose difficult questions to its occupying bodies; art does not often publicly explore uncomfortable topics outside of museums and private spaces. However, at their intersection art and architecture might more productively explore the complicated facets of being human.
Speaker: Alex Schweder is the 2005–2006 Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture. Since this time, Schweder has been experimenting with time and performance based architecture including Flatland at New York's Sculpture Center 2007, This Apple Tastes Like Our Living Room Used to Smell presented at Western Bridge in Seattle 2007, Melting Instructions presented at the Tacoma Art Museum 2007, Homing MacGuffin during New York's Homebase III project 2008, The End of Endless to be presented at the Santa Fe Center For Contemporary Art 2009, and A Sac of Rooms All Day Long to be shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2009. His work has also been exhibited nationally and internationally including Henry Urbach Architecture in New York, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute, and the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma. Schweder is the author of 'Stalls Between Walls', in Ladies and Gents, the Gendering of Public Toilets. He is a three time artist in residence at the Kohler company and will be in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Fall of 09. Schweder has been a guest professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in the Fall 07 for the seminar How to Perform Your Own Building. He holds a Masters in Architecture from Princeton University (1998) and a Bachelor in Architecture from Pratt Institute (1993).
More.
Monday, 24 November 2008
TEXTURES
6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA ),
1st conference of the SLSA-EU, the European sister organization of the SLSA
Place and dates Riga/Liepaja (Latvia), 15-20 June, 2010
Main organizer Electronic Text + Textiles (e-t+t
Venues Main site for the academic programme, reception, lunches:
The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE)
Other conference sites:
e-t+t; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts; Riga City Art Space (t.b.c.), Art Lab, University of Liepaja
Theme The SLSA-EU 2010 conference is dedicated to exploring fabrics, structures, surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large extent through technoscience and networked media. This transformed world is highly textured, partly through verbal and non-verbal 'texts' but also by mixtures of human-made and given environments whose complexity offers resistance to symbolic readings.
Through the term, 'textures,' we aim to bring together transitional figures of thought in many fields:
in literary criticism: the movement from the material signifier to meaning, affect, and communication;
in the arts: the well-known 'resistance in the materials’;
in cognitive science: the transition from the neuronal to the mental;
in a textile: the construction of cloth and the surfacing of a pattern from the interwoven material threaded lengthwise (warp) and widthwise (weft);
in painting: the emergence of a whole through the patterning of smaller elements; the presentation of an 'all over' composition in a series of canvases;
in sound art: the blending of running water or traffic noise into a continuous sonic structure;
with regard to the body: the perpetual becoming-other of an allegedly fixed and bordered identity;
the ‘fold’ in Deleuze; the ‘tissue of quotations’ in Barthes, the ‘weave’ in Derrida, the feminist spider's embodied writing of gendered subjectivity, and other materialist readings of familiar poststructuralist conceits;
etc. (please send us your ideas)
The list is meant to be suggestive, not restrictive, of the range of interests we hope to accommodate. As the conscious embrace of constraints – in science, literature and the arts – , can be productive not narrowing, so is our theme designed to be generative and to stitch together the diverse theoretical and transdisciplinary approaches that have long defined SLSA research.
Call for Abstracts
The main conference site, The Stockholm School of Economics, is equipped with state of the art technology, but the newness and limited resources of the main organizer, e-t+t, means that we must restrict the conference to 120 papers.
Deadlines and Submission Address
Submission of abstract (300 words): end of June 2009
Notification by e-t+t: end of August 2009
Registrations: from September 2009; early bird rate:
170€ up to end of January 2010, then 200€
Paper submission: end of March 2010
All proposals should be sent to a single email address: 2010slsa@gmail.com
Please see the e-t+t website for updates: http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/
We look forward to your participation.
Yours,
Zane Berzina, Manuela Rossini, Joseph Tabbi (Co-Creative Directors of e-t+t),
Anda Klavina, Haralds Matulis (Site hosts),
and local and international partners
1st conference of the SLSA-EU, the European sister organization of the SLSA
Place and dates Riga/Liepaja (Latvia), 15-20 June, 2010
Main organizer Electronic Text + Textiles (e-t+t
Venues Main site for the academic programme, reception, lunches:
The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE)
Other conference sites:
e-t+t; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts; Riga City Art Space (t.b.c.), Art Lab, University of Liepaja
Theme The SLSA-EU 2010 conference is dedicated to exploring fabrics, structures, surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large extent through technoscience and networked media. This transformed world is highly textured, partly through verbal and non-verbal 'texts' but also by mixtures of human-made and given environments whose complexity offers resistance to symbolic readings.
Through the term, 'textures,' we aim to bring together transitional figures of thought in many fields:
in literary criticism: the movement from the material signifier to meaning, affect, and communication;
in the arts: the well-known 'resistance in the materials’;
in cognitive science: the transition from the neuronal to the mental;
in a textile: the construction of cloth and the surfacing of a pattern from the interwoven material threaded lengthwise (warp) and widthwise (weft);
in painting: the emergence of a whole through the patterning of smaller elements; the presentation of an 'all over' composition in a series of canvases;
in sound art: the blending of running water or traffic noise into a continuous sonic structure;
with regard to the body: the perpetual becoming-other of an allegedly fixed and bordered identity;
the ‘fold’ in Deleuze; the ‘tissue of quotations’ in Barthes, the ‘weave’ in Derrida, the feminist spider's embodied writing of gendered subjectivity, and other materialist readings of familiar poststructuralist conceits;
etc. (please send us your ideas)
The list is meant to be suggestive, not restrictive, of the range of interests we hope to accommodate. As the conscious embrace of constraints – in science, literature and the arts – , can be productive not narrowing, so is our theme designed to be generative and to stitch together the diverse theoretical and transdisciplinary approaches that have long defined SLSA research.
Call for Abstracts
The main conference site, The Stockholm School of Economics, is equipped with state of the art technology, but the newness and limited resources of the main organizer, e-t+t, means that we must restrict the conference to 120 papers.
Deadlines and Submission Address
Submission of abstract (300 words): end of June 2009
Notification by e-t+t: end of August 2009
Registrations: from September 2009; early bird rate:
170€ up to end of January 2010, then 200€
Paper submission: end of March 2010
All proposals should be sent to a single email address: 2010slsa@gmail.com
Please see the e-t+t website for updates: http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/
We look forward to your participation.
Yours,
Zane Berzina, Manuela Rossini, Joseph Tabbi (Co-Creative Directors of e-t+t),
Anda Klavina, Haralds Matulis (Site hosts),
and local and international partners
The Association for Integrative Studies
Raymond C. Miller Receives the AIS Kenneth Boulding Award
The Association for Integrative Studies recently recognized Professor Raymond Miller as the recipient of the Kenneth Boulding Award during its 30th anniversary conference in Springfield, Illinois. The Boulding Award is the organization’s highest honor bestowed on scholars and teachers whose work has made major, long-term contributions to the concept or enactment of interdisciplinarity. Recipients of the Boulding Award have given extraordinary service to the interdisciplinary community by clarifying and expanding the concept of interdisciplinarity and by deepening the scholarly or public understanding of interdisciplinary inquiry through a combination of teaching, scholarship, and integrative community involvement.
Miller is a past president, journal editor, and long-time member of AIS. He is also the past president of the Society for International Development and Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Social Science at San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University and his M.A. from the University of Chicago. His culminating work, International Political Economy, Contrasting World Views, was published by Routledge Press this past summer. Miller’s “courage in service of the public good” was cited as a key feature of his commitment to creating social change. Miller’s contributions to interdisciplinary discourse and its applications have extended beyond the academy into city and regional government, where he served for three terms as mayor of Brisbane, California, and as member of Mateo County commissions on planning, governance, and transportation.
Past winners of this award include: Kenneth Boulding (1990), Ernest Boyer (1993), Jerry Gaff (1993), Julie Thompson Klein (2003) and William H. Newell (2003).
CONTACT: Pauline D. Gagnon, President, Association for Integrative Studies
pgagnon@westga.edu
The Association for Integrative Studies recently recognized Professor Raymond Miller as the recipient of the Kenneth Boulding Award during its 30th anniversary conference in Springfield, Illinois. The Boulding Award is the organization’s highest honor bestowed on scholars and teachers whose work has made major, long-term contributions to the concept or enactment of interdisciplinarity. Recipients of the Boulding Award have given extraordinary service to the interdisciplinary community by clarifying and expanding the concept of interdisciplinarity and by deepening the scholarly or public understanding of interdisciplinary inquiry through a combination of teaching, scholarship, and integrative community involvement.
Miller is a past president, journal editor, and long-time member of AIS. He is also the past president of the Society for International Development and Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Social Science at San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University and his M.A. from the University of Chicago. His culminating work, International Political Economy, Contrasting World Views, was published by Routledge Press this past summer. Miller’s “courage in service of the public good” was cited as a key feature of his commitment to creating social change. Miller’s contributions to interdisciplinary discourse and its applications have extended beyond the academy into city and regional government, where he served for three terms as mayor of Brisbane, California, and as member of Mateo County commissions on planning, governance, and transportation.
Past winners of this award include: Kenneth Boulding (1990), Ernest Boyer (1993), Jerry Gaff (1993), Julie Thompson Klein (2003) and William H. Newell (2003).
CONTACT: Pauline D. Gagnon, President, Association for Integrative Studies
pgagnon@westga.edu
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Transdisciplinary Studio Schedule
Tuesday 25 November
10-13: Supervision - check on work-in-progress RJ+RH
Friday 12 December
10-12 Transdisciplinary Studio Final Crit RJ + RH + guest critic(s)
10-13: Supervision - check on work-in-progress RJ+RH
Friday 12 December
10-12 Transdisciplinary Studio Final Crit RJ + RH + guest critic(s)
Monday, 17 November 2008
HOW TO ENCOURAGE NEW HERESIES
by MARCIA BARTUSIAK
Review of:
DISCOVERING
By Robert Scott Root-Bernstein.
Illustrated. 501 pp. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press. $35.
Seeing that science, with its exponential growth, has blossomed a millionfold since the 1600's, why are we not witnessing a millionfold increase in the number of fundamental discoveries, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein wonders in ''Discovering.'' Scientific revolutions, the kinds of upheavals that dramatically alter our view of nature, spring up at a rather constant pace, he claims. Where are the thousands of Newtons, Darwins and Einsteins that should now be walking the earth? The modern publication explosion in science has arrived without a commensurate explosion in astounding revelations. Has science, in all its manifestations, now become so bureaucratic that it ends up sabotaging those who would discover?
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Review of:
DISCOVERING
By Robert Scott Root-Bernstein.
Illustrated. 501 pp. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press. $35.
Seeing that science, with its exponential growth, has blossomed a millionfold since the 1600's, why are we not witnessing a millionfold increase in the number of fundamental discoveries, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein wonders in ''Discovering.'' Scientific revolutions, the kinds of upheavals that dramatically alter our view of nature, spring up at a rather constant pace, he claims. Where are the thousands of Newtons, Darwins and Einsteins that should now be walking the earth? The modern publication explosion in science has arrived without a commensurate explosion in astounding revelations. Has science, in all its manifestations, now become so bureaucratic that it ends up sabotaging those who would discover?
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