Relocating Innovation: Places and material practices of future-making

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OrkneyLab: An Archipelago Experiment in Futures
Laura Watts

Developed from ASA09 paper, and written for a Tim Ingold and Monica Janowski edited volume to be published by Ashgate [download paper].

Future Archaeologies: method and story
Laura Watts

Keynote performance at Society of Museum Archaeologists Conference, Winchester UK. Begins to explore the role of the Future Archaeologist in Orkney, and Orkney innovation. [Download paper]

OrkneyLab: An archipelago experiment in futures
Laura Watts

Paper presented at ASA09 as part of the session 'Imagining Past and Present Landscapes' organised by Tim Ingold and Monica Janowski. [Download paper]

Political representation in practice:
Sameness and difference in the Hungarian Parliament
Endre Dányi

Paper presented at 4S/EASST 2008, Rotterdam, as part of the session 'Mere Innovation'. [Download paper]

Striking Likenesses to Difference
Lucy Suchman

Paper presented at 4S/EASST2008, Rotterdam, as part of the session 'Mere Innovation' organised with Cori Hayden. [Download paper]

Orkney: Landscapes of Future Resistance
Laura Watts

Paper presented at 4S/EASST 2008, Rotterdam, concerning ethnography on Orkney, and how landscapes push back at futures and their accountability. [Download paper]

Liminal Futures
Laura Watts

Prose-poem composed during fieldwork on Orkney in March 2008. Performed at Subversion, Conversion, Development: Public Interests in Technologies, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 24-26 April 2008. [Download paper]

The Train, the Window, and the Mobile Phone Designer: a story of travel time use in the high-speed cellular age
Laura Watts

Short story with visuals that explores mobile technologies, liminality, and the imagination. Performed at Senses in Transition, ESRC Seminar Series 'Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place', University of Salford, 31st January 2008. [Download script]