| Title | Introduction |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | From Performance to Inventing the Social |
| Contributor | Noortje Marres(introduction by) |
| Michael Guggenheim (introduction by) | |
| Alex Wilkie (introduction by) | |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/inventing-the-social/read/1-o-introduction-from-performance-to-inventing-the-social |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim, Alex Wilkie |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Published on | 2018-07-11 |
| Page range | pp. 17–37 |
| Language | English (Original) |
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 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 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).