Designing culture : the technological imagination at work

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Label

Designing culture : the technological imagination at work

Title remainder

the technological imagination at work

Statement of responsibility

Anne Balsamo

Creator

• Balsamo, Anne Marie, 1959-

Contributor

• Hocks, Mary E

Subject

• World Conference on Women
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Technological literacy
• Documentary films
• Technological innovations -- Social aspects
• Civilization, Modern
• Diffusion of Innovation

Genre

• Documentary films

Language

eng

Summary

"The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the technological imagination, a quality of mind that enables people to think with technology, to transform what is known into what is possible. She describes the technological imagination at work in several multimedia collaborations in which she was involved as a designer or developer. One of these entailed the creation of an interactive documentary for the NGO Forum held in conjunction with the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. (That documentary is included as a DVD in Designing Culture.) Balsamo also recounts the development of the interactive museum exhibit XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading, created by the group RED (Research in Experimental Documents) at Xerox PARC. She speculates on what it would mean to cultivate imaginations as ingenious in creating new democratic cultural possibilities as they are in creating new kinds of technologies and digital media. Designing Culture is a manifesto for transforming educational programs and developing learning strategies adequate to the task of inspiring culturally attuned technological imaginations."--Pub. desc

Related

• Women of the world talk back

Cataloging source

NcD/DLC

Dewey number

306.4/6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HM846

LC item number

.B35 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• indexes
• bibliography