[Open Design + Hardware] opendesign Digest, Vol 41, Issue 5

Wed Nov 25 13:03:36 UTC 2015

Hello Massimo,

I don't have more info unfortunately, the contact person seems to be Bahar
Emgin (bahar.emgin at yasar.edu.tr
> <mailto:bahar.emgin at yasar.edu.tr>)

Good luck,

Irene

2015-11-25 13:00 GMT+01:00 <opendesign-request at lists.okfn.org>:

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> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:36:46 +0100
> From: Massimo Menichinelli <massimo.menichinelli at aalto.fi>
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> Subject: Re: [Open Design + Hardware] Fwd: DESIGN-HISTORY Digest - 23
>         Nov 2015 to 24 Nov 2015 - Special issue (#2015-41)
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> Many thanks for the suggestion Irene!
>
> I found the website of the conference here:
> http://cargocollective.com/4T2016/4T2016-Home-1
>
> But I haven't found any information about the process (peer-review,...)
> and proceedings: do you know anything about this?
>
> Br,
>
> Massimo
>
>
> Il 24/11/15 12:25, Irene Maldini ha scritto:
> > Herewith a call for papers for 4T 2016 ETHICS OF [RE] PRODUCTION
> > May 12-13, 2016, ?zmir Center of Architecture
> >
> > ?Our era prefers the images to the things, the copy to the original the
> > representation to the reality, appearance to being.? (Feuerbach, The
> > Essence of Christianity, 1857)
> > Feuerbach?s pronouncements marks the symptomatic loss at the heart of
> > modern experience: loss of tradition, loss of the Creator, loss of a
> > connection one formed with what one produced, and loss of a solid
> > ground. These losses were mediated through the hopeful belief on human
> > rationality, science and progress.
> > It was ironic that, despite the radical changes, this new era did not
> > challenge the traditional belief in the singularity of Truth and
> > reality, but simply replaced its referent from metaphysical to
> > scientific. New developments, however, initiated questions on this
> > singularity, starting with the invention of photography, blurring the
> > boundaries between the original and its duplicates, the real and the
> > appearance of the real, scientific documentation and artistic
> > representation. In this framework, Feuerbach?s statements in the
> > ?Essence of Christianity,? were more than a discussion on religion, but
> > an embodiment of the frustrations and alienation an individual felt in
> > the modern era with all its novelties. Not surprisingly, this quote was
> > used extensively in visual studies in the twentieth century.
> > A century after Feuerbach, as the belief on the Truth is abandoned, and
> > the discourse on multiple realities began, philosophers like Baudrillard
> > and Deleuze re-addressed these questions in different ways. Their
> > discourse was no longer based on a singular, mechanical, and modern
> > world but one that became multiple, digital and postmodern. In one
> > century, as our experience of the world turned more fleeting, so did the
> > production systems, transforming from manual to mechanical and to
> > digital, challenging materiality, authorship and permanence. While the
> > beginning of the twentieth century witnessed discussions on whether mass
> > production systems were impoverishing art or were they finally
> > presenting opportunities for the realization of ?total work of art,? the
> > twenty-first century seemed to have left its high aspirations behind and
> > fully immersed itself in the aestheticization of the capitalist
> experience.
> > So what happens to the question of ethics all through these
> > transformations? Do we still need to demarcate the line between an
> > original and the copy when reality itself is suspect? Or is it even
> > relevant to talk about the original? Where do we locate the producer,
> > the product, the process and the client/spectator in this discussion?
> > What are the emancipatory design practices that our new era allows that
> > were not a possibility before?
> > This year?s symposium focuses on the ethics of [re-]production in design
> > and throughout design history. Papers are invited to focus on one of the
> > following thematic categories or their intersections in the context of
> > different fields including but not limited to design and cultural
> studies.
> >
> > RE-PRODUCTION OF IDENTITY: ORIGINAL, COPY, MIMICRY
> > How can the relationship between original and copy be re-interpreted in
> > the digital age?
> > What are the cultural implications of the cult of the original in modern
> > societies?
> > What is the impact of design in the construction and production of
> > identities?
> > How can mimicry be used as an ethical design strategy?
> > How does the fluidity of digital age mobilize fluidity of identities?
> >
> > RE-PRODUCTION AND AUTHOR-ITY:OPEN SOURCE, CO-CREATION, HACKING
> > ?What is an author? in the digital age?
> > How can hacking be ethically located in the field of design?
> > What is the role of open source initiatives in design?
> > What are emancipatory potentials of co-creation today?
> > How design can be organized as a cooperative process?
> >
> > RE-PRODUCTION AS REALITY, SIMULATION, HYPER-REALITY, AUGMENTED REALITY
> > How do representations produce social and cultural realities?
> > To what extent does design contribute to the management of perception?
> > What are the potentials of simulacrum as a denial of the original / copy
> > model?
> > How are virtual and simulated environments consumed in contemporary
> > societies?
> > What are the ethical issues that are mobilized in new understandings of
> > reality?
> >
> > CALL FOR PAPERS
> > Those who are interested in contributing papers to the eleventh 4T
> > Symposium are invited to submit a title and an abstract of 250-300 words
> > through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4t2016) by
> > January 29th 2016. Registration to EasyChair is essential in order to
> > submit abstracts. The symposium language is English, therefore
> > all abstracts, presentations and papers should be in English. For any
> > further questions please contact Bahar Emgin (bahar.emgin at yasar.edu.tr
> > <mailto:bahar.emgin at yasar.edu.tr>). Selected proposals will be announced
> > on February 29th, 2016.
> >
> > ORGANIZING BOARD
> > Tevfik Balc?o?lu, G?ls?m Baydar
> > ?ebnem Y?cel, Ahenk Y?lmaz
> > ?mer Durmaz, ?. Osman Demirba?
> > G?khan Mura, A. Can ?zcan
> > Dilek Himam, G?k?e?i?ek Sava??r
> > ?zlem Ta?k?n Erten
> >
> > COORDINATOR
> > Bahar Emgin
> >
> > ASSISTANT COORDINATORS
> > Yasemin Oksel Ferraris, Gizem ?zmen
> >
> > CONCEPT AND DESIGN
> > Umut Alt?nta?
> >
> > GRAPHIC APPLICATIONS
> > Orkun Destici
> >
> >
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