Networks of Design e-book published

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

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Networks of Design e-book cover Following last year's successful Networks of Design conference, where over 250 leading international thinkers and designers converged on UCF's Tremough Campus, a new e-book of the essays and proceedings has been published.

The four-day conference, hosted by staff and students of the MA 20th Century Art & Design: Histories & Theories course at UCF, explored the growing interest in the fields of design history, technology, humanities and the social sciences.

The book makes an important contribution to the emerging field of actor-network theory and design and includes papers contributed by a number of staff at UCF. It maps a new methodological territory in design studies, conceived as a field of interdisciplinary inquiry and practice informed by a range of responses to actor network theory.

It brings together a rich body of current work by researchers in the social sciences, technology, material culture, cultural geography, information technology, systems design and design theory and history.

This collection will be invaluable to students and researchers in many areas of design studies and to design practitioners receptive to new and challenging notions of what constitutes the design process.

Over ninety essays are thematically organised to address five aspects of the expanded notions of mediation, agency, and collaboration posited by network theory: Ideas, Things, Technology, Texts, and People. The collection also includes an important new essay on rethinking the concept of design by Bruno Latour, one of the most influential figures in the philosophy and sociology of science and technology and a pioneer of actor network theory, and essays deriving from forum discussions involving designers and designer-makers responsive to actor network theory.

For further information regarding the e-book, please visit, www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1599429063

It is also featured on Universal Publishers main page under, New Title, and can be accessed via http://www.universal-publishers.com/

For further information about MA 20^th Century Art & Design at University College Falmouth, please visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/20centuryartdesign, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk, or telephone Admissions on 01326 214360.

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012, that will be unique to the South West.

The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union, the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792; or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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