[Open Design + Hardware] Fwd: DESIGN-HISTORY Digest - 23 Nov 2015 to 24 Nov 2015 - Special issue (#2015-41)

Tue Nov 24 11:36:46 UTC 2015

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, İzmir 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 Balcıoğlu, Gülsüm Baydar
> Şebnem Yücel, Ahenk Yılmaz
> Ömer Durmaz, Ö. Osman Demirbaş
> Gökhan Mura, A. Can Özcan
> Dilek Himam, Gökçeçiçek Savaşır
> Özlem Taşkın Erten
>
> COORDINATOR
> Bahar Emgin
>
> ASSISTANT COORDINATORS
> Yasemin Oksel Ferraris, Gizem Özmen
>
> CONCEPT AND DESIGN
> Umut Altıntaş
>
> GRAPHIC APPLICATIONS
> Orkun Destici
>
>
>
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