Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science
Mike Michael
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- Intro- Introduction: Mike Michael
- Nine- Speculation/Anticipation: Michelle Murphy
- Six - Speculation/Anticipation: Tobie Kerridge
- Three- Discussion: Michelle Murphy & Tobie Kerridge
- Twelve - Participation/Impact: Pelle Ehn
- Seven - Participation/Impact: Alex Wilkie
- One - Discussion: Pelle Ehn & Alex Wilkie
- Four - General discussion: Michelle Murphy, Alex Wilkie, Tobie Kerridge, Pelle Ehn, Mike Michael
- Ten - Discipline/Contamination: Harvey Molotch
- Two - Discipline/Contamination: Nina Wakeford
- Thirteen - Discussion: Harvey Molotch & Nina Wakeford
- Five - Making/Method: Bill Gaver
- Eleven - Making/Method: Kat Jungnickel
- Eight - Discussion: Bill Gaver & Kat Jungnickel
- Fourteen - Closing comments and discussion: Lucy Suchman & Mike Michael
Design and social science disciplines intersect at a number of points. While there is excellent work exploring many of these points of contact, there is also a tendency for social science to treat design as a topic (e.g. what does design do and how might this be accounted for in sociological terms?), and for design to treat social science as a resource (e.g. what useful knowledge does sociology produce and how can this be deployed to model users or construct scenarios?).
The Birth of Histories from the Spirit of Mourning
Paul Connerton (University of Cambridge)
Thursday 28 October RHB 309
Author of: How Modernity Forgets (2009) How Societies Remember (1989)
Listen to Connerton http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n8m2s
American sociologist Howard Becker at Goldsmiths
Howard BeckerSmall Hall/Cinema, Goldsmiths, University of London
In November 2009 Howard Becker, the American sociologist credited with the development of 'labelling theory' in the 1960s, took part in two events to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London.
He gave a lecture on his new book, "Do you know...?": The Jazz Repertoire in Action
(co-authored with Robert R Faulkner). "Do you know .?" offers entertaining stories and sharp insights drawn from the authors' own
experiences and observations as well as interviews with a range of
musicians. Becker and Faulkner's vivid, detailed portrait of the
musician at work holds valuable lessons for anyone who has to think on
the spot or under a spotlight.as been influential on sociology and criminology, but he was also a jazz musician in the 1930s and his latest book "Do you know ...?" explores how musicians, previously unknown to one another, are able to adapt to each other and play music together in spontaneous live performance.
Howard Becker was involved in a public discussion with Les Back about the craft of sociological writing and thinking. Illustrated
through a series of his favourite sociological studies he demonstrates
how these books tell about society and offer useful exemplars for
researchers to reflect on their own practice and scholarship
A podcast of this event held on Monday 2nd November, 2009 and entitled The Craft of Sociology is now available here
Atmospheres of participation: art, media, politics
Kris Cohen and Edgar SchmitzIan Gulland Lecture Theatre 6.30-8.30pm Thursday 12 November 2009
Two talks and a discussion about presence, liveness and the importance of participation:
1 - Kris Cohen (Art History, University of Chicago)
Intimacy without Reciprocity: Suffragists, Internet Trolls, and Sharon Hayes’ Love Letters
2 - Edgar Schmitz (Art, Goldsmiths)
Some rather ambient attitudes: indifference, exit and the question of affirmation.
Chair: Nina Wakeford (Sociology)
How are contemporary artists dealing with the question of participation,particularly in the light of the promise of new media to promote greater reciprocity through interaction? How important is the collective creation of atmospheres of participation? Are artistic strategies caught between generating enthusiasm and constituting indifference? How do artists contribute to emergent forms of atmosphere through technologies?
Organised by the INCITE research group, Department of Sociology, Centre for Culture Studies and the Leverhulme Media Research Centre, with the support of the Economic and Social Research Council and Intel Research.
Sound archive:
Maximising impact through research methods: a view from early British sociology
Professor John Scott discussant Les BackFriday 19th February, 2010
