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From art to social sciences and from social sciences to art: “framing the...

I would like to follow up on Aileen’s post on art and research. I’d like to discuss the possible dialogue between art and social sciences with a specific example. I became aware of the possibility of...

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Continuous City: a multimedia play

Yesterday I went to see a multimedia play Continuous City at the BAM (Brooklyn, NY) (http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=123). I was looking forward to going as it was exploring many of the issues I am...

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Human and non-human actors

In our discussion on Continuous City, Aileen and I discussed the role of technology in the play – how technology was “given” agency. I wanted to follow up on this idea of agency which was highlighted...

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Oozing: Rethinking the interactions between human and non-human agents

Hi, Thursday I went to the Van Alen Institute (NY) to attend a workshop for the launch of the OOz project by Natalie Jereminjenko (one of the authors on this blog)...

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Building_Space_With_Word as an evocative object

Hi, I’m reading a book edited by Sherry Turkle, entitled “Evocative Objects: Things We Think With”. I found this book as I was exploring the literature on materiality (objects, artifacts) for a paper...

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The social and the material in Design – from Lucy Kimbell’s blog

On December 1, Lucy posted an interesting post on her blog http://www.designleadership.blogspot.com/ very relevant to our discussion about socio-material practices: “Designers wary of social theories –...

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Latour and Jereminjenko: Two of our contributors give talks in New York

Hi, for those of you in New York, two of our contributors, Bruno Latour and Natalie Jereminjenko are giving talks this week and next week in New York. - Bruno Latour gives a talk “Globalization: Which...

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Paris Invisible City

While reading Yasmine’s post on the situationists and the “psychogeographical” maps (February 2nd), it reminded me of a book by Latour, Paris, Invisible City. In this book which mixes photos and texts,...

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on Bruno Latour’s recent talk at Columbia University: Is “Which Globe?” also...

Thanks to Anne-Laure, I attended (for the first time) one of Latour’s talks. The talk was everything and more of what I expected and what I was told in advance: informative, thought-provoking, and...

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Curating exhibitions to present research ideas, provide space for dialogue...

Several people have asked me how this installation fits in my research, in my work. I explain them how it was originally an attempt for me to present my ideas differently, and how it then became a way...

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