Relocating Innovation: Places and material practices of future-making

Relocating Innovation Roundtable

How might 'innovation' be figured differently? An informal group sharing ideas, themes, resources concerned with place, materials, and innovation. Bringing projects and people from across the faculties together.

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A mailing list for this group interested in 'future-making' will be established shortly. If you would your name to be added, please contact Laura Watts.

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Related Projects

Posted by: Maggie Mort
Project: Ethical Frameworks for Telecare Technologies for older people at home (EFORTT)

Posted by: Claire Waterton
Project: Taxonomy project

Here we are working with innovators who are proposing new (DNA based) ways of identifying organisms as a change that should affect the whole of global taxonomy. We are both observing these innovators and the way that innovations unfold, and using a method called 'protee' to interact with them, and bring science studies ways of thinking about innovation to bear on real-time innovation practices.

Posted by: Claire Waterton
Project: Loweswater Knowledge Collective

Here, we ourselves are innovating with ways of getting people to work together around a problem of pollution in a lake. Our 'innovation' is called an innovation by us as, again, it is trying to think about the value of bringing science studies ideas and ways of thinking to the issue of how to work with this water pollution problem.

Posted by: Julia Gillen
Project: Schome | Schome magazine

This project is seeking to explore new approaches to education that are 'Not school not home'. For the last 13 months we have been running the 'Schome Park' project which uses a 3D virtual island on Teen Second Life. Students, aged 13-17 from across the UK plus a group from the USA and staff members including myself have been interacting through avatars. Curriculum studies have included physics, archaeology and ethics and philosophy. Activities have included building museums, steam trains, racing yachts, giant sudoku puzzles, organising a wedding, machinima and much much more. For me probably the project's most fascinating innovatory quality has been the shifting relationships between 'staff' and 'student' identities and the interplay of literacy practices involved. (The project is directed by Peter Twining at the Open University).