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[Nettime-nl] New Media Lecture Series: Lezing Fiona Raby, van Dunne & Raby, 8 mei om 15u.
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- Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 17:11:50 +0200
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Aanstaande dinsdag, 8 mei om 15u: lezing van Fiona Raby aan de
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6 kamer F201C.
N E W M E D I A R E S E A R C H L E C T U R E S E R I E S
ANNOUNCEMENT
We are very pleased to announce the upcoming lecture.
Tuesday, 8 May
15-16u. (3-4pm) Please be on time!
University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6 (OMHP)* [Law Faculty Building]
Room F201C
Fiona Raby, Partner in Dunne & Raby
Designs for Fragile Personalities in Anxious Times
As designers we have an unthinking optimism about the future. We
automatically assume that what we design is neutral and implicitly
good. There is a deeply embedded ideology that the role of design and
architecture is 'to make the world a better place'. But how do we
acknowledge our contradictions, our inconsistencies and celebrate a
humanness which, if we admit it, is deeply flawed.
Dunne & Raby use products and services as a medium to stimulate
discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public
about the social, cultural and ethical implications of emerging
technologies. Many of our projects are collaborative, working with
industrial research labs, academia and cultural institutions.
Projects include: Hertzian Tales, a combination of essays and design
proposals exploring the aesthetic meanings of electronic objects
(published by the Royal College of Art, 1999, with revised edition
published by MIT Press, 2006); FLIRT, a European Union funded
research project investigating location-based services for mobile
phones (published by the Royal College of Art, 2000); and Placebo, a
collection of electronic objects which explore mental well-being in
relation to domestic electromagnetic fields (published by the Royal
College of Art, 2001). Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic
Objects was published by August/Birkhauser in 2001.
BioLand, our current research project, investigates how a critical
design approach can be applied to the field of biotechnology. A
parallel project, Prescription Products: Designs for Fragile
Personalities in Anxious Times, continues our obsession with the
psychological impact of an atomised society.
Dunne & Raby: http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/
*Oudemanhuispoort building pictures: http://www.sco-
kohnstamminstituut.uva.nl/star2004/travelinfo.htm
Come early because the building is a labyrinth.
Through the front door, take a right, follow signs for room F201c up
to the second floor.
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New Media Research Lecture Series, Media Studies, University of
Amsterdam
Richard Rogers
New Media, University of Amsterdam
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/r.a.rogers/
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