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08. januar 2009
Invitation to seminar
26 January 14.30-16.30 Room: Ks 71, Kilen, Kilevej 14, Frederiksberg
Transforming practices in architecture
Professor Ina Wagner
Abstract: My studies of professional design practice are anchored in the notion of situated/located practice and they have paid special attention to architects' and urban planners' physical environment of spaces and artifacts. One of the main insights from almost 10 years of fieldwork in architectural studios, as well as three European projects, is that design work consists in producing design representations in different modalities, scales, and materials, and their constant transformation in a process of ongoing refinement and increased specificity. In order to be able to do that, architects typically have to mobilize resources from a variety of disciplines and to enlist the cooperation of experts of all sorts. This view of ‘design as transforming', as well as multi-disciplinary and cooperative, has led me look at multiplicity and ‘openness' as main characteristics of architectural practice. The presentation will address three topics: collaboration patterns and the need for shared workspaces; the conceptual phase of design: 'reprogramming' and the need to see things differently; stakeholder participation and the need for building communities of practice around a project.
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Ina Wagner is Professor for Multidisciplinary Systems Design and Computer-Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) and Head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Design. After completing her PhD in physics she spent the first part of her career in science education, researching into and exploring innovative approaches to learning. Since then she has edited and written numerous books and authored over 150 papers on a variety of technology-related issues, amongst them a feminist perspective in science and technology, ethical and political issues in systems design, computer-support of hospital work and of architectural design and planning, CSCW and networking, and telecommuting as a social practice. From 1995 - 97 she was Chair of the Equal Opportunity Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture and from 1997 - 2000 she was member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. She is member of the Austrian Bioethics Committee since 2001. She has held a professor II position at the University of Oslo 2005-2007.
Transforming practices in architecture
Professor Ina Wagner
Abstract: My studies of professional design practice are anchored in the notion of situated/located practice and they have paid special attention to architects' and urban planners' physical environment of spaces and artifacts. One of the main insights from almost 10 years of fieldwork in architectural studios, as well as three European projects, is that design work consists in producing design representations in different modalities, scales, and materials, and their constant transformation in a process of ongoing refinement and increased specificity. In order to be able to do that, architects typically have to mobilize resources from a variety of disciplines and to enlist the cooperation of experts of all sorts. This view of ‘design as transforming', as well as multi-disciplinary and cooperative, has led me look at multiplicity and ‘openness' as main characteristics of architectural practice. The presentation will address three topics: collaboration patterns and the need for shared workspaces; the conceptual phase of design: 'reprogramming' and the need to see things differently; stakeholder participation and the need for building communities of practice around a project.
Register for the seminar
Ina Wagner is Professor for Multidisciplinary Systems Design and Computer-Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) and Head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Design. After completing her PhD in physics she spent the first part of her career in science education, researching into and exploring innovative approaches to learning. Since then she has edited and written numerous books and authored over 150 papers on a variety of technology-related issues, amongst them a feminist perspective in science and technology, ethical and political issues in systems design, computer-support of hospital work and of architectural design and planning, CSCW and networking, and telecommuting as a social practice. From 1995 - 97 she was Chair of the Equal Opportunity Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture and from 1997 - 2000 she was member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. She is member of the Austrian Bioethics Committee since 2001. She has held a professor II position at the University of Oslo 2005-2007.