STS encounters with Art & Design: A debate

Jane Calvert, Emma Frow, Jane Calvert, Emma Frow, Maria Grade Godinho, Gill Haddow, Maria Grade Godinho, Gill Haddow,

Pablo SchyfterPablo Schyfter

ISSTI Retreat, 3-4 June 2013ISSTI Retreat, 3-4 June 2013

A Debate

Art is the new STS

thanks, but no thanks

Art/IST as method: Provoke & clarify

Art is awesome…

Art is the new STS

thanks,but no thanks

pointlessexaggeration

unhelpfulperformativity

aesthetics and glamour

ARTART//IST: IST: METHOD: Provoke METHOD: Provoke

and Clarifyand Clarify

Law

Social ScienceArt

1. Art in the qualitative method 1. Art in the qualitative method provokes…provokes…

Isambard BrunelIsambard Brunel•No.. I don’t think there’s anything I feel I should say that I’m not. Except that this has drawn it out, the science fiction view of the cyborg, be it for enhancement or this sort of thing, make people better, is very not what this is all about and that begs a question, could the technologies we’re developing ever be used to do this kind of thing? …That’s the curse of all scientific innovation, anything you do for whatever purpose could be turned to another purpose.

Art in the qualitative method Art in the qualitative method offers clarification and offers clarification and

generationgeneration

Clarence Darrow & Valley of DeathClarence Darrow & Valley of Death

Isambard Brunel & the Isambard Brunel & the ‘‘trapdoortrapdoor’’

Art is… Awesome!

Science Art

Boo Chapple - A Rat’s Tale (2007)

Ai HasegawaI wanna deliver a Shark... (2011-2012)

Mother-to-daughter womb transplant 'success' in Swedenhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19637156

Science Art

Or Art is a way to explore ethical issues

raised by scientific practice