Mattering Press
Inventing the Social
- Noortje Marres(editor)
- Michael Guggenheim (editor)
- Alex Wilkie (editor)
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| Title | Inventing the Social |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Noortje Marres(editor) |
| Michael Guggenheim (editor) | |
| Alex Wilkie (editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.28938/9780995527768 |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/inventing-the-social |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Noortje Marres; Michael Guggenheim; Alex Wilkie |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Publication place | Manchester, UK |
| Published on | 2018-07-11 |
| ISBN | 978-0-9955277-5-1 (Paperback) |
| 978-0-9955277-6-8 (PDF) | |
| Short abstract | Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, the book provides practical and conceptual pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in potentially new ways. Presenting concrete projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch. To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life. |
| Long abstract | Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, the book provides practical and conceptual pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in potentially new ways. Presenting concrete projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch. To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life. |
| Print length | 336 pages (1-334) |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 152 x 23 x 229 mm | 5.98" x 0.91" x 9.02" (Paperback) |
| Media | 58 illustrations |
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Contents
- Noortje Marres
- Michael Guggenheim
- Alex Wilkie
- Michael Guggenheim
- Bernd Kräftner
- Judith Kröll
Turning Controversies into Questions of Design: Prototyping Alternative Metrics for Heathrow Airport
(pp. 94–124)- Christian Nold
Designing and Doing: Enacting Energy-and-Community
(pp. 125–147)- Alex Wilkie
- Mike Michael
- Andrés Jaque
- Nigel Clark
- Fabian Muniesa
- Martin Savransky
The Sociality of Infectious Diseases
(pp. 234–252)- Marsha Rosengarten
Social Media as Experiments in Sociality
(pp. 253–283)- Noortje Marres
- Carolin Gerlitz
Hacking the Social?
(pp. 287–297)- Christopher M. Kelty
How Can We…? Connecting Inventive Social Research with Social and Government Innovation
(pp. 298–314)- Lucy Kimbell
Inventive Tensions: A Conversation
(pp. 317–334)- Lucy Kimbell
- Michael Guggenheim
- Noortje Marres
- Alex Wilkie
Contributors
Noortje Marres
(editor)Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at University of Warwick
Noortje Marres is Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at the University of Warwick (UK). She studied science, technology and society (STS) at the University of Amsterdam and the Ecole des Mines (Paris). She was formerly the Director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her book Material Participation (Palgrave) came out in paperback in 2015, and she published Digital Sociology (Polity) in 2017.
Michael Guggenheim
(editor)Reader at the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London
Michael Guggenheim is Reader at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Co-Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP). His research focuses on expertise and lay people in the fields of disaster management, buildings and cooking. He teaches inventive and visual methods and dreams of a different sociology.
Alex Wilkie
(editor)Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at Goldsmiths University of London
Alex Wilkie is a sociologist of science, technology and design and a designer. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design, at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is also a Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP, Department of Sociology). Alex has recently been working on questions of aesthetics and speculation in relation to knowledge and inventive practices and has co-edited the volume Studio Studies (Routledge, 2015) with Ignacio Farías and Speculative Research (Routledge, 2017) with Martin Savransky and Marsha Rosengarten. He is currently writing a book on Science and Technology Studies and Design (with Mike Michael).