[ecrea] Call for Participation New interaction orders, New mobile publics?

Call for Participation
New interaction orders, 
New mobile publics?

Central Park, New York, Ed Yourdon © Creative Commons

13-14 April 2012
Organisers: Chris Boyko, Monika Büscher, Tim Dant, Jill Ebrey, Pauline Feron, Karenza Moore, Jen Southern, Katherine Willis
Contact: (p.feron /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)<mailto:(p.feron /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>
Information : http://lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/new-interaction/

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 24th February 2012

Most of this is ostensibly utterly trivial but the sum is not trivial at all. 
(Jacobs 1961, The Life and Death of Great American Cities, p. 73)

Introduction
Equipped with mobile technologies, people connect in ways that were unthinkable when Goffman wrote Behaviour in public spaces (1963) and William Whyte explored The social life of small urban spaces (1980). The momentous Arab Spring events, London riots and ‘2011 Occupy’ demonstrations are extreme examples that pose old questions about the ‘interaction order’ and its relation to social order and the public sphere in new ways. On the one hand, mobile connectivity enables micro-coordination of increasingly mobile everyday lives, new modulations of co-presence, absent presence and present absence, and transformations of socio-material practices of availability, obligation, intimacy and strangerhood in public. Some of the social innovations involved also shape emergent new practices of mobilising people in protests and crises. Arguably new, agile, local and globally networked communities and ‘mobile publics’ are forming. On the other, worries over a loss of civility, community, privacy, and new forms of surveillance enabled by the ever closer intermeshing of digital technology and everyday ‘movement-spaces’ fuel fears over an erosion of civil liberties and ‘capital P’ politics.
Goffman’s insistence that ‘the interaction order’ is the performative locus of such utopian and dystopian transformations and his and Whyte’s attention to detail are the motivation for this two-day interdisciplinary workshop. We would like to bring micro and macro, theory and empirical research, everyday lived practice, design, policy and politics together through collaborative analysis of multi-sited, mobile, ethnographic or otherwise qualitative studies of behaviour in today’s public spaces, zeitdiagnostic theory and avantgarde design. We invite researchers, designers, technology developers, architects, urban planners, artists and urban communities to submit contributions that explore aspects of new and old ‘behaviour in public spaces’, including (but not limited to):
the ‘osmotic’ relationship between physical and virtual spaces, connectivity and mobility
the social life of such spaces
emergent principles and practices of the 21st Century interaction order
augmented embodied and sensory phenomenology, material agency
links between the interaction order, public engagement, public space
tensions between mobile informationalized everyday lives and movement-spaces and principles of privacy and civil liberty, security, splintering and sorting of ‘access’
examples, practices and impacts of improvised communities and mobile publics, and collective intelligence
examples and methods of collaborative, experimental, radically careful and carefully radical design of new practices, technologies, forms of public engagement and spaces
reflections on the links between theory, empirical studies, design and politics in the broadest sense

Please send a 300 word abstract to Pauline Feron: (p.feron /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)<mailto:(p.feron /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>  by 24th February 2012. Notification of Acceptance 9th March 2012.
There is a small amount of financial support available for travel. If funds are an obstruction, please contact (p.feron /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)<mailto:(p.feron /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>

Preliminary Programme
Day 1
12:00 - 13:00  Lunch
13:00 - 13:30  Introduction
13:30 - 14:30  Christian Licoppe Telecom ParisTech, France
14:30 - 15:30  Presentations 1&  2
15:30 -16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 17:00  Presentations 3&  4
17:00 - 17:30  NIO project Pecha Kucha
18:00 - 22:00  Experiment + Dinner

Day 2
09:00 - 09:30  Coffee&  pastries
09:30 - 11:00  Presentations 5, 6, 7
11:00 - 11:30  Coffee
11:30 - 12:30  Presentations 8, 9
12:30 -13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30  Title - Mobile Life in Public and Private Spheres of    Interaction - Keith Hampton, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, US
14:30 - 15:30  What next?

Guest speakers
Christian Licoppe, Social Science department, Telecom ParisTech, France
Keith Hampton

WWW:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/new_interaction_order/



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