Digibabble, or How to Get Grant Money in 2002

Upcoming UCSD conference on the "Infrastructures of Digital Design: Thinking/Building/Living". The call for participation is pure 2002 "digibabble". Can you honestly say any of this makes sense to you?

Digital infrastructures are thought, built, and lived, and these processes operate as frameworks that simultaneously enable and disable creative social activity. In thinking infrastructures we operate through a field of possibilities opened within contemporary social, political, cultural and technical imaginations. In building infrastructures we bring these imaginations face-to-face with the material and institutional conditions of shaped environments. In living infrastructures we reproduce, reshape and resist the designs of infrastructure builders. These 'moments' of digital design, often held separate for analytic purposes, are in practice always colliding: in thinking we build, in building we live and in living we must rethink. We consume and are consumed by infrastructure.

How about this?

Even as these technical and social infrastructures of digital design pervade, they threaten to disappear into an opaque foreground, becoming the unacknowledged tools of the everyday. But the everyday of one can be the struggle of another.

Posted by brian at November 22, 2002 06:44 AM