Sociology Seminar with Rebecca Ellis and the CaTAlyST team

Date: 5 March 2013 Time: 4.15 to 6pm

Venue: Bowland North SR 22

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 4.15pm in Bowland North SR22

Rebecca Ellis and the Catalyst team on The (in)tangibility of Catalyst's 'other' prototype: early thoughts on the engagement of vulnerable publics in co-designing the future.

Principal Investigator - Prof Jon Whittle,

(Computing & Communications) Dr Maria Angela Ferrario - Research Associate (Catalyst) Jen Southern - Research Associate (Catalyst) Dr Will Simm - Research Associate (Catalyst) Prof. Gordon Blair - Co-Investigator (Computing & Communications) Dr Monika Buscher - Co-Investigator (Sociology) Dr Paul Coulton - Co-Investigator (LICA) Dr. Leon Cruickshank - Co-Investigator (LICA) Prof. Tim Dant - Co-Investigator & Launch pad lead (Sociology) Dr Rebecca Ellis - Co-Investigator & Sprint lead (LEC) Prof. Robert Fildes - Co-Investigator (LUMS) Dr Drew Hemment - Co-investigator (ImaginationLancaster & FutureEverything) Dr Ruth McNally - Protee Lead (Computing & Communications) Prof. Stefanos Mouzas - Co-Investigator (LUMS) Prof. Awais Rashid - Co-Investigator (Computing & Communications) Dr Corina Sas - Co-Investigator (Sociology) Prof. Lucy Suchman - Co-Investigator (Sociology) Colin McLaughlin - Tech Transfer Manager (Computing & Communications) Prof. Gerd Kortuem - Co-Investigator (OU)

Catalyst is a £1.9M project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC), which brings together academics and communities to jointly imagine and build the next generation of tools for social change, and to explore innovative, bottom-up technology-mediated solutions to major problems in society.

Catalyst is an interdisciplinary research project, uniting teams of academics with community organisations, and reaching further afield by working with high-profile partners.

The three year project looks at how different communities use technology to make 'the world' a better place. And, in a series of sub-projects, communities and academics will together envision and build next generation tools more suited to the job.

Event website: http://www.catalystproject.org.uk/content/about-catalyst

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Who can attend: Anyone

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Associated staff: Monika Büscher, Paul Coulton (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Leon Cruickshank (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Tim Dant (Sociology), Rebecca Ellis, Drew Hemment (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Ruth McNally (Sociology), Lucy Suchman