[Nettime-nl] New Media Lecture Series: Lezing Fiona Raby, van Dunne & Raby, 8 mei om 15u.

[Institute of Network Cultures <info@networkcultures.org>]

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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