| Title | Designing and Doing |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Enacting Energy-and-Community |
| Contributor | Alex Wilkie (author) |
| Mike Michael (author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/inventing-the-social/read/5-o-designing-and-doing-enacting-energy-and-community |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Alex Wilkie, Mike Michael |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Published on | 2018-07-11 |
| Page range | pp. 125–147 |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 2 illustrations |
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).
Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology, and a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. His research interests have touched on the relation of everyday life to technoscience, the role of culture in biomedicine, and the interplay of design and social scientific perspectives. Recent major publications include Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations (Sage, 2017). He is currently writing books on Science and Technology Studies and Design (with Alex Wilkie) and on Speculative Research Methodology.