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CaTalyST
Summary: The CaTalyST (Citizens Transforming Society: Tools for Change) project will bring together a group of social scientists (sociology; anthropology), computer scientists (mobile computing; web2.0; distributed systems), management scientists (consumer behaviour) and designers (innovation) to develop next generation systems that empower citizens to create bottom-up innovative solutions to 'wicked' societal problems. It will promote cross-disciplinary working across Lancaster University (and beyond) between the School of Computing & Communications, Sociology, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster Environment Centre, and Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts.
Key Facts
Co-investigators: Monika Büscher, Paul Coulton (Communication Systems), Leon Cruickshank (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Tim Dant (Sociology), Rebecca Ellis (Sociology), Drew Hemment (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts), Gerd Kortuem (Computing and Communications), Ruth McNally (Sociology), Lucy Suchman (Sociology)
Dept/Research Groups: ImaginationLancaster, Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Computing and Communications, Sociology, Mobilities.Lab
Keywords: Design, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Experimental research, Imagination, Innovation, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Participatory research, Social theory, Technology, Technoscience
Associated News Stories
Mobile Methods will be chattered about on 26th May, at http://twitter.com/#!/dethnoreads
Date: 5 May 2011
Catriona Macaulay who set up MSc in Design Ethnography at Dundee University in 2008 has initiated a twitter reading group. Mobile Methods is one of ... Read more»
Associated Events
Collective intelligence in crisis situations
Date: 24 September 2011 Time: 09.00 am - 17:30pm
There are potentially rich synergies between socio-technical innovation in collective intelligence, mobilities research and Computer Supported Cooper ... Read more»
Social Media and Crisis Workshop
Date: 27 April 2011 Time: 09.00 am - 17:30pm
As recent events vividly document, crisis situations engender intensive information flows not only for official and non-governmental emergency r ... Read more»
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