1st Edition
Studio Studies Operations, Topologies & Displacements
Introduction 1. Studio Studies: Notes for a research program, Ignacio Farías & Alex Wilkie Part 1: Operations 2. The Design Studio as a Centre of Synthesis, Alex Wilkie & Mike Michael 3. Bringing the World into the Creative Studio: The ‘reference’ as an advertising device, Tomás Ariztía 4. From the Squid’s Point of View: Mountable cameras, flexible studios and the perspectivist turn, Emmanuel Grimaud Interview 5. For a Sociology of Maquettes: An interview with Antoine Hennion, Antoine Hennion & Ignacio Farías Part 2: Topologies 6. Theorizing Studio Space: Spheres and atmospheres in a video game design studio, James Ash 7. Inter- to Intracorporeality: The haptic hotshop heat of a glassblowing studio, Erin O’Connor 8. Architecture in the Wild: The studio overflowed, Sophie Houdart Interview 9. Temporalities, aesthetics and the studio: an interview with Georgina Born, Georgina Born & Alex Wilkie Part 3: Displacements 10. Rediscovering Daphne Oram's Sound-House: The home-studio as domestic experiment, Laurie Waller 11. The Studio in the Firm: A study of four artistic intervention residencies, Ariane Berthoin Antal 12. Studio Operations: Manipulation, storage and hunting in desert landscapes, Ignacio Farías Afterword 13. Afterword – Studio Studies: Scenarios, supplements, scope, Mike Michael
Biography
Ignacio Farías is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor of the Munich Center for Technology in Society and the Faculty of Architecture at the Technische Universität München. Ignacio works on science and technology studies, urban studies and cultural sociology with a focus on infrastructural transitions and participation. He is co-editor of Urban Assemblages. How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies (Routledge 2009) and Urban Cosmpolitics. Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres (Routledge, Forthcoming).
Alex Wilkie is a Senior Lecturer in Design and a sociologist. He leads both the MA: Interaction Design programme and the Ph.D. programme in Design Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Alex works on user studies, design, HCI, inventive methods, practice-based research, process theory and science and technology studies. He is co-editor of Inventing the Social (Mattering Press, Forthcoming) and Transversal Speculations (Forthcoming) and is currently preparing a monograph for MIT Press.
"This book offers an excellent introduction to one of the defining projects in social studies today: the performative analysis of creative practice. Combining case studies and interviews by outstanding scholars in the study of science, technology and culture, it shows how the studio enables the assembly and negotiation of relations between art, design, markets, publics and social studies themselves. It thereby offers a welcome empirical handle on an especially complex contemporary phenomenon, the valuation of creativity across domains."
Noortje Marres, Associate Professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodology, University of Warwick
