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[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject: [members] FW: [EASST-Eurograd] CFP: DIGITAL FABRICATIONS AMONGST
HACKERS, MAKERS AND MANUFACTURERS: WHOSE ʽINDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONʼ? (4S
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This may be of interest to some.


Nigel


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On 21/12/2015, 15:24, "Eurograd on behalf of eurograd at lists.easst.net" <
eurograd-bounces at lists.easst.net on behalf of eurograd at lists.easst.net>
wrote:

>CFP: DIGITAL FABRICATIONS AMONGST HACKERS, MAKERS AND MANUFACTURERS: WHOSE
‘INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION’? (4S Barcelona)
>
>We invite abstracts for a track we are organising on the theme of digital
fabrications amongst hackers, makers and manufacturers, and which will take
place in Barcelona over August 31 to September 3 as part of the
international conference of the European Association for the Study of
Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of
Science (4S).
>
>Abstracts can be submitted at this link:
>
>http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3870
>
>More details below.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Johan Söderberg, Maxigas, Adrian Smith
>
>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
>Our track brings critical analysis to the plurality of collectives, spaces
and futures that are assembling around increasingly accessible digital
design and fabrication technologies. Computer integrated tools hold
particular  historical ironies and contradictions: early introduction
threatened skills, livelihoods and identities amongst manufacturing
communities – while they are celebrated today as enabling agency,
identities and communities for makers. Both processes has been promoted as
’Industrial Revolutions’. STS has much to contribute to understanding,
engaging and bridging digital fabrications. Conversely, apparent historical
turnarounds in digital fabrication, with tools spilling into new
collectives and spaces, offers an opportunity to interrogate STS theory and
methodology.
>
>Fifty years ago, social ecologist Murray Bookchin, like other commentators
welcomed a future in which collectives would own tools and organise
production non-hierarchically around ‘liberatory technologies’. Does
grassroots appropriation of digital fabrication in hackerspaces,
makerspaces and amongst user groups online, mean his future for egalitarian
tool-based creativity arrived? Or do digital fabrication futures reinforce
the automation, flexible specialisation, and globalised outsourcing
documented by David Noble in the 1980s, and that has been a driver for the
technology amongst manufacturing strategists since then? How do the
collectives and spaces pursuing these different futures intersect, contest,
and co-exist?
>
>In analysing digital fabrications, we are particularly interested in the
critical voices posing unsettling questions:
>
>* Who controls the platforms underpinning these activities and their
connections, and how does this influence the spaces for peer production,
and the terms for private appropriation?
>
>* What senses of humanity are invigorated, and which excluded, from the
political imaginaries, utopias, dystopias, and ideologies embodied in
digital fabrication technologies?
>
>* How does the materiality of digital fabrications connect to the values
of sustainable developments?
>
>* Where does the figure of the hacker – forever opening-up technologies –
lurk in these collectives and spaces; and what has hacker culture mobilised
and been appropriated by these collectives?
>
>* When and where will future industrial conflicts arise: what are the
political and economic relations at stake between these collectives, spaces
and futures?
>
>We welcome papers that provide critical reviews, original empirical study,
and theoretical development relevant to digital fabrications.
>
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