Thomas James Lodato on Wed, 9 Jul 2014 15:12:00 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> PDC Workshop Announcement: Where's Love in E-Waste? |
Hi everyone- I am co-organizing a workshop with Daria Loi (Intel) for the Participatory Design Conference in Windhoek, Namibia. The workshop focuses on developing and leveraging participatory strategies for reconceptualizing e-waste. Please email me (thomas.lodato@gatech.edu) or Daria (daria.a.loi@intel.com) if you are interested in joining in. Details are below. -Thomas James Lodato Ph.D. candidate | Digital Media | LMC | Georgia Institute of Technology --- Where???s Love in E-Waste? This workshop focuses on how the notion of love can help explore and define participatory strategies targeted at dealing with issues surrounding e-waste. In particular, we are interested in discovering how Participatory Design practice can offer ways of transforming people???s relationships with e-waste from negative affective relationships into positive ones through engagement, co- creation, and group envisioning. The workshop focuses particularly on existent e-waste, accepting it as an (unfortunate) outcome of current production strategies in need of change. If you are interested, find out how to participate ( http://loveinewaste.wordpress.com/). Submissions are due by July 22 2014. To find out more about the conference, please visit the official PDC 2014 website (http://www.pdc2014.org/). The overall goal of the workshop is to document multiple perspectives, methods, and examples of value-centered and participatory approaches that focus on looking at and utilizing e-waste as key ingredient to create positive transformation and/or outcomes. Some possible questions to consider in the context of this workshop include: -Can participatory practice transform e-waste into a conduit for community reconciliation? -Can reflection on the materiality and aesthetics of e- waste trigger practices to ultimately benefit those directly impacted by e-waste? -Can e-waste become something positive if looked at differently thanks to a participatory lens? -Can notions of love and participation help us engage e-waste differently, making beauty out of it despite its negative impact on landscapes and society? -What is the role of PD practitioners when e-waste is a direct by-product of design engagements? Participation will include for select submissions a stipend (amount TBD) for travel and other conference expenses. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org