FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY | Workshop
Critical-Connective Tissue: Making Worlds with the Humanities Workshop

Critical-Connective Tissue: Making Worlds with the Humanities

Content

The world is facing urgent challenges–some would say it is on fire–and humanistic knowledge (broadly speaking) can help, but only if we build close working relations with other disciplines and forms of knowledge without losing sight of our own unique contributions. How can we best implement such work “on the floor” and in terms of robust and responsible outward-facing capacity to respond collaboratively to societal challenges and complex problems? What role could academia play in addressing the complex challenges facing the world?

A basic presumption is that the humanities have important domain knowledge (historical, cultural, critical etc.) but also challenging, creative and convening powers. The humanities in this context include the institutional humanities, but are not restricted to them. On the contrary, there is a special interest in what lies on the fringe or outside, including liminal fields (or parts of those fields) such as urban humanities, disability studies, critical theory, and information studies, but also art, design, sociology and related areas. Moreover, the critical-connective tissue addresses the coming together of this expansive version of the humanistic and critical with the rest of the university (including engineering, architecture and computer science) and the outside world (including civic society, NGOs, corporations etc.).

Participants

Adam Nocek (Arizona State University), Noopur Raval (UCLA), Sverker Sörlin (KTH), Natalie Jeremijenko (artist and engineer), Henrik Andersson (Lund University), Lovisa Brännstedt (Lund University), Erin Cory (Malmö University), Marisa Parham (University of Maryland), David Larsson Heidenblad (Lund University), Nishant Shah (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Bo Reimer (Malmö University), Karen Bradshaw (Arizona State University), Erica Robles-Anderson (New York University), Jennifer Mack (KTH),and Anna Ådahl (Linköping University, affiliated with the Royal Institute of Art).

The workshop has been supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Arizona State University and Malmö University.

Please join us for a set of exciting dialogues, deliberations and high-energy, contemplative forward movement! The workshop is hoped to be generous, sharp and generative.

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