Event overview
A conversation about how a shift from texts to projects will alter a knowledge economy founded on print.
“Projects are both nouns and verbs: A project is a kind of scholarship that requires design, management, negotiation, and collaboration. It is also scholarship that projects, in the sense of futurity, as something which is not yet.”
— Digital_Humanities, Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp, MIT Press, 2012
The book Digital_Humanities is centered around the notion that the team-based, multi-modal, ongoing, and iterative project will become the basic unit of scholarly production, superseding text-based units such as papers, reports, and books.
Please join a conversation about how a shift from texts to projects will alter a knowledge economy founded on print. Practitioner-scholars from the Humanities, Design, Interactive Media, and Computer Science are invited to discuss the possibilities and pitfalls of bringing models from design to the practices of knowledge production in the Digital Humanities. The conversation could address such topics as:
· How do projects circulate? How are they accessed? How are they archived? In a networked culture of abundance, should they be archived?
· What happens when user-centered and human-centered design methods and theories meet theories of interpretation, reading, and viewing?
· How can designerly ways of knowing gain currency within a text-centric knowledge economy? How are such models of knowledge/knowing captured, transferred, and assessed?
· What role might the design critique and studio practice have in Humanities practices?
· What are the challenges for producing and critiquing an expanded range of communication modalities?
· How does the shift from single authors to interdisciplinary teams affect notions of intellectual property, credit and attribution?
Bio:
Anne Burdick's new book, Digital_Humanities, is a compact report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Collaboratively authored with Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, the book was released in November 2012 by The MIT Press. Burdick is Department Chair of Media Design Practices at Art Center College of Design and was design editor of electronicbookreview.com from 1995-2012. Her work with multi-modal scholarly production includes an ongoing collaboration with Literary Scientists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on the Austrian Academy Corpus and the Fackel Wörterbuch, an experimental text-dictionary for which she received the Leipzig Award for the “Most Beautiful Book in the World”, along with the Writing Machines book and web supplement with N. Katherine Hayles. Her current research project, MICRO/MEGA/META, looks at the future of scholarly production through future forecasting and design fiction.
This event is produced by the Department of Design and the Digital Culture Unit, Centre for Cultural Studies.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/design/
http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/ccsdigitalcultureunit/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 Feb 2013 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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