DASH Archives - September 2019

Collecting and Collections: Digital Lives and Afterlivesarlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG


The Royal Society
 6-9 Carleton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
14-15 November 2019

 

The shift from the  disordered Kunstkammer or curiosity cabinet of the Renaissance to the ordered Enlightenment museum is well known. What has to be explored fully is the process through which this transformation occurred. Collective Wisdom, funded by an AHRC International Networking Grant, explores how and why members of the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Leopoldina (in Halle, Germany) collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the 17th and 18th centuries.


In three international workshops, we are analysing the connections between these scholarly organisations, natural philosophy, and antiquarianism, and to what extent these networks shaped the formation of early museums and their categorisation of knowledge.

 

Workshop III, concerning the afterlives, use and reconstruction of early modern collections is designed to benefit scholars interested in digital humanities.

We will explore digital approaches to survey collections over time, assisted by the Royal Society-Google Cultural Institute partnership. How can we data-mine and use tools to integrate extant databases? How did the norms of early modern academies of scientific journal publication, priority of discovery and ‘matters of fact’ shape the organisation of knowledge? How do we consider those early modern models in digital reconstructions of early collecting?

 

Speakers include:

Min Chen (Oxford), Mary-Ann Constantine (Wales), Natasha David (Google), Michelle DiMeo (Hagley), Louisianne Ferlier (The Royal Society), Rainer Godel (Leopoldina), Rob Iliffe (Oxford),  Neil Johnston (TNA), Suhair Khan (Google), Nigel Leask (Glasgow),  Miranda Lewis (Oxford), Alice Marples (Oxford), Alessio Mattana (Turin),  Julianne Nyhan (UCL), Torsten Roeder (Leopoldina), Anna Marie Roos (Lincoln), Giacomo Savani (University College Dublin), Cornelis Schilt (Oxford), Tom Scott (Wellcome), Aron Sterk (Lincoln), Matthew Symonds (CELL, UCL). 

 

£100 registration fee, full (includes lunches, coffees and music concert)

£50 registration fee, students and concessions (includes lunches, coffees and music concert)

 

Registration, programme, and abstracts:

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/11/collecting-and-collections/

 

Free registration for music concert following the workshop

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/11/collecting-for-charity/

 

For more information about the Collective Wisdom project see

https://collectivewisdom.uoregon.edu/

 

Best wishes,

 
Anna Marie Roos (PI) and Vera Keller (Co-I)

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Colleagues, please find details of the CONNECTIONS: EXPLORING HERITAGE, ARCHITECTURE, CITIES, ART, MEDIA conference. Canterbury is a great venue. The themes look at heritage and contemporary art and design. The organisers are working with Intellect Books to develop the fifth book in their ‘Mediated Cities’ series.
Please share the call widely.

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CONNECTIONS: EXPLORING HERITAGE, ARCHITECTURE, CITIES, ART, MEDIA
29-30 June 2020.        Abstracts due: 10 February, 2020.

https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-conference

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Themes: digital design, smart cities, digital art, film-photography and the city, history and heritage, architectural theory
Previous conferences in this series were held in London, Los Angeles, Bristol and Istanbul. Four books have been produced as part of the associated publication series by Intellect Books, “Mediated Cities”. Book five will come from this event.


CALL:

Today the digital is ubiquitous across all disciplines connected with the physical environment in which we live. Computational design in architecture and smart cities in urban panning theory are just two examples. In addition to informing design today however, the digital age also informs how we understand the past. State-of-the-art equipment for geophysics, laser scanning, and compositional analysis are now key tools for archeologists. Data mapping is used by historians and digital technologies of all forms allow filmmakers, animators and photographers to record the past and the present in new ways.

As the tools we use to create the future and explore or preserve the past merge and blur, this conferences asks educators and professionals from all disciplines to consider how their work is changing as a result, and how it informs and is informed by the work of others.

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EDUCATION Highlight Notice:

In addition to a book as part of the Intellect “Mediated Cities” series, delegates submitting papers related to teaching and learning will be considered for Routledge book series: “Focus on Design Pedagogy”.


To participate, submit an abstract:    https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-conference


Organisers: University of Kent, UK | Intellect Books | AMPS | PARADE

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