<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Marcus Foth <<a href="mailto:m.foth@qut.edu.au">m.foth@qut.edu.au</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 19 August 2010 10:37:58 AEST<br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:cirig@qut.edu.au">cirig@qut.edu.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:cirig@qut.edu.au">cirig@qut.edu.au</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Two guest seminars by Dr Anne Galloway, 30 + 31 Aug 2010</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:9.0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#222222">The <em><span style="font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"">Urban Informatics Research Lab</span></em>, the <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Institute for Creative Industries
& Innovation</span></em>, the <em><span style="font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"">ARC Centre of Excellence for for Creative Industries
& Innovation</span></em>, and the <i>BEE School of Design</i>, are proud to present two guest seminars by:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:9.0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#222222">Dr Anne
Galloway, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-right: 9cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Speculative Design as a Research Method</span></font></b></span></font></p><p style="margin-right: 9cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; ">Monday, 30 August 2010, 11 am – 12 noon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; ">Please RSVP by 24 August 2010 to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; ">Ben Kraal <<a href="mailto:b.kraal@qut.edu.au"><a href="mailto:b.kraal@qut.edu.au">b.kraal@qut.edu.au</a></a>></span><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; ">Queensland University of Technology, </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; ">Gardens Point Campus, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; ">S Block, room 620</span></p><p style="margin-right: 9cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; "><b>Abstract</b></span></font></p><p style="margin-right: 9cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; "><b></b></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; ">Design is increasingly seen as a creative and productive means of engaging imagined social and technological futures, but what kind of knowledge is being produced and how can we assess the impact of this kind of research? This talk outlines a project that aims to address these methodological concerns through a critical exploration of how NZ's merino wool industry could be reconfigured by future RFID-based animal and product traceability initiatives.</span></p><div><div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Counting Sheep: New Zealand Merino Wool in
an Internet of Things</span></font></span></div>
<p style="margin-right: 9cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 11 am – 12 noon, followed by light refreshments (to 1 pm)<br>Please RSVP by 25 August 2010 to <a href="mailto:julieanne.edwards@qut.edu.au"><a href="mailto:julieanne.edwards@qut.edu.au">julieanne.edwards@qut.edu.au</a></a><br>Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, A Block, Council Room (A105)<br></span></font></p>
<h4 style="margin-right: 9cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 15pt; font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px; ">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:9.0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#222222">Pervasive computing brings together
wireless, networked and context-aware technologies, including Global
Positioning System (GPS), environmental sensors and Radio-Frequency
Identification (RFID), to embed computational capacities in the
objects and environments that surround us. The “Internet of
Things” is a related vision for future computing that proposes a
shift from a network of interconnected computers to a network of
interconnected objects. By virtue of their status as highly regulated
and globally traded commodities, livestock animals and animal products
have long been tracked and are primed to be amongst the first non-humans
in such a network. Specifically, RFID-enabled livestock traceability
programmes are increasingly being mandated by governments and agricultural
industries worldwide to better support management of disease outbreaks and
maintain access to high-value export markets. In these technologically
determinist traceability scenarios, animals are largely envisioned
as manageable and saleable information and farmers are more often
positioned as technicians and data collectors than as animal caregivers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:9.0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#222222">This project investigates the role
that cultural studies and design can play in presenting both producers
and consumers with alternate visions for the future of human-animal
relations. Through a juxtaposition of technological livestock management
programmes and non-technological wool industry products and services, this
presentation will critically question the social and cultural implications
of emergent technologies and existing traceability efforts. Particular
attention will be given to articulating research practices and
stakeholder relations that can significantly engage relevant issues and
avoid the pitfalls of both dystopian and utopian futurism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h4 style="mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:9.0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#222222">Biography<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:9.0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#222222">Anne recently relocated from Canada
(a.k.a. The Great White North) to take up a position as Senior Lecturer in
Design Research at the School of Design, Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand. Drawing on a background in sociology and anthropology,
her research focusses on emergent technologies in their visual,
discursive, material and practical manifestations. Anne really likes
animals and technology, and you can learn more about her and the
world’s best cat™ on the web at <a href="http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#454673;text-decoration:none">plsj.org</span></b></a> or on
twitter @annegalloway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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