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The Stanford Humanities Lab is a Center for Transdiciplinary/Post-Disciplinary Study. We discover fascinating futures to be explored in ignoring and crossing disciplinary borders.

SHL believes that some crucial questions — about what it is to be human, about experience in a connected world, about the boundaries of culture and nature — transcend old divisions between the arts, sciences and humanities; between the academy, industry and the cultural sphere.

We engage in experimental projects with a "laboratory" ethos — collaborative, co-creative, team-based — involving a triangulation of arts practice, commentary/critique, and outreach, merging research, pedagogy, publication and practice. Beyond commentary and discussion, we build: new media, interactive archives, predictive models of social change, collaborative research workshops, art exhibitions.

The SHL agenda encompasses

• animating archives - regenerating, bringing to life, and fostering new modes of interaction with the storehouses of human, cultural, artistic, scientific achievement - our focus is on the question of the relationship of the human past to efforts at conservation and preservation
 
• building bigger pictures - putting specialized in-depth research into the context of big human questions; questions, for example, of rapid social change and innovation, the ethical implications of information technology, the character of distributed digital communities, the politics of digital citizenship, the past, present, and future of intellectual property
 
• enabling co-creative collaboration - developing successful models of teamwork, learner-centered models of training (thinking through doing), and collaborative authoring tools and processes
 
• building bridges - establishing innovative partnerships between industry, museums, foundations, and high-level university-based research

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SHL/SHC Colloquium: "The past is no longer what it was."


New Thinking About Archives - Because the Past Is No Longer What It Was.

Thursday May 3rd 1.00-4.00pm at Stanford Humanities Center

The purpose of this colloquium is simple - to find out what others are doing and thinking, to show and tell about projects concerning the future of the archive.

Many at Stanford have an interest in the history, structure, use, and future of archives and museums, in collection and documentation, in how we work with organized materials that are the sources for research, learning, historical analysis and narrative, memory practices, and cultural and personal identity. Digital information technologies are the focus of a dynamic mobilization of archives that has prompted some of us to envision a watershed change in the way we relate to archived pasts - towards archives that are architectures of engaging experience - Archive 3.0.

Please join us. RSVP Henry Lowood, Matthew Tiews and Michael Shanks. An outline can be found here.

posted by Jeff Aldrich at 1:21 PM

Critical Studies in New Media Workshop - Gilbert Cockton

12 Noon Tuesday 24 April Wallenberg Hall (Building 160) 4th Floor


SHL and the Mellon/Humanities Center workshop "Critical Studies in New Media" invite you to a brown-bag lunch with Gilbert Cockton, Research Chair in Human Computer Interaction at the University of Sunderland UK. As part of our transdisciplinary focus on bridging Design and the Humanities, on connecting socio-cultural themes with media engineering, Prof Cockton will be talking about

Value and Values in the Development of Interactive Software and Media: Worth-Centered Design

" ... a worth-centred framework aims to create and maintain a focus on value throughout the development of interactive software and media. This focus starts with designers' cognitions about intended desirable value, and moves through the creative design and development of achievable value to the evaluation of achieved worth ..."

An outline and forum for the talk can be found here

posted by Jeff Aldrich at 1:49 PM