Balsamo Anne Balsamo

Designing Culture (eBook, PDF)

The Technological Imagination at Work

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Produktbeschreibung

The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the technological imagination, a quality of mind that enables people to think with technology, to transform what is known into what is possible. She describes the technological imagination at work in several multimedia collaborations in which she was involved as a designer or developer. One of these entailed the creation of an interactive documentary for the NGO Forum held in conjunction with the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. (That documentary is included as a DVD in Designing Culture.) Balsamo also recounts the development of the interactive museum exhibit XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading, created by the group RED (Research in Experimental Documents) at Xerox PARC. She speculates on what it would mean to cultivate imaginations as ingenious in creating new democratic cultural possibilities as they are in creating new kinds of technologies and digital media. Designing Culture is a manifesto for transforming educational programs and developing learning strategies adequate to the task of inspiring culturally attuned technological imaginations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 307
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822392149
• Artikelnr.: 54930065

Autorenporträt

Anne Balsamo is Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is a co-founder of Onomy Labs, a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously, she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC that created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She is the author of Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents of http://designingculture.net/ vii
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Taking Culture Seriously in the Age of Innovation 1
1. Gendering the Technological Imagination 27
2. The Performance of Innovation 51
3. Public Interactives and the Design of Technological Literacies 95
4. Designing Learning: The University as a Site of Technocultural
Innovation 133
Conclusion. The Work of a Book in a Digital Age 185
Notes 199
Bibliography 255
Index 279
Women of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary
(enclosed dvd)