http://gb.pad.constantvzw.org/p/documentation ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ making sense to be isolated. why do we need to isolate? control - loss of control do humans have a need vital need to classify? naming = commanding = classifying = language blender units (look at history of that decision) open standards? transitions and boundaries "normal is what you make it" Dialects - 1 arm, 1 foot becomes a meter ... comparable but loss of diversity body languages as an accent 'pluma' a way of speaking, walking ... 'bearing' (non-gay culture) the accent vs. 'algemeen beschaafd nederlands' pluma = the edge of a feather ergonomics: most bodies vs normal bodies vs average bodies In design you would produce marial for a certain range of the population ie for the 70% more common, or the 8% smallest what are the conditions of what is the spread of a size ... how much spread can you afford finding the shoe that fits you medical: sole to make you normal (fit the norm) a base model vs a normal model vs a reference model a life outside of the catalog - can we afford to customize all of us, everything, all of the time? http://www.eumo.it/Don-t-run-beta-2013 is it the same thing to print your kidney or your iphone? Is it just a matter or time, access? it is a problem of thinking through personalisation. Personalized industries. What about social issues, context? And social security? relations between anthropormism and racism. From not having a soul, to not having the right skull. What happens when biology becomes truth. Is this a problem of biology itself or how we relate to it, how we employ it? Eugenics justifies behaviours by biology "The gene of happiness" "Junk DNA" --> Here's a link of a radio show on the encode project - on the non-garbage aspect of so-called junk dna http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2012/sep/10/hawking-british-science-festival full length interview: http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2012/sep/13/genetics-human-genome-project genetics being constructed while it is being applied And some freaky printing.. - http://makezine.com/2014/11/15/3d-printing-using-genetically-modified-bacteria-and-orange-juice/ if you find the sickness gene, we can fix it there and save on health policy making behaviour calculable, than we can talk about costs to 'society' Is this a four legged dog? Patrica Piccinni ... http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/ Companian species inappropriated others utopian or dystopian a slave creature think about it in terms of labor: why is the one that is different is the one that feeds, takes care. A utilitaritan approach to otherness. It is not a way out social penetration of monsterbodies through the children, domestic space breaking the nuclear family? not if it is a domestic worker. it is an adult with its own sexuality? Intergenerationality ... still a surrogate mother This image is more a metaphor than a proposal? zenotransplants between different species. Grafting (re: cherry tree xavier grandmother) "you have to alternate your species" Back to topology (let's say 'perfect') and topography ... what about the input, before the topology? do we all have the same software? Maths is always correct? not only quantitive or qualitative input fragility of the parametric there is an end to the slider ... incomplete mesh ... deciding what are the limits, what is the abstraction acknowledging it as a system direct line between parametrics + classification. global is implied. but if you have multiple classifications, multiple frameworks. too stable. what if it is dynamic? topology is relational the set of all sets no consequence to classifications what/why is a classification made? software tends to naturalize a perspective of the world. Confusion between what is actually there and the tools we use to relate to that world. It is a human construction. The tool merges with that what it operates upon femke: i'm trying to think about what happen when we opperate through/with parametrics with sw. There is no way out of it. if we're in a world that tends to push you into certain directions towards measuring the world, what can we do to act against that? multiplicity of systems of classification: remembering that it is a tool do we really need to classify? fragility/instability is an important experience vis a vis stabilizing system calling genetics a code ... what is at the root of something? data ... that is a binary issue focusing too much on language, tools, classifications, ... we're too anthropomorphic? understanding the body as mechanics, or with cybernetics: flows of information Hell.o - biometrics in the bank, video surveillance/creative self-surveillance - appropriation of maker culture; diy in the bank. should it actually in the fablab? It was a commercial culture to begin with. taking back what's theirs - create a discourse space around their action. it is about creating comfort around technology ... geeks are their target? Questioning how tech works. enquete ... re-route attention chosing a succesful one? printing money? 100 euro coins Embedding values in designed objects -Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" http://innovate.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Winner-Do-Artifacts-Have-Politics-1980.pdf -Values in Design research group @ NYU (Helen Nissenbaum & co.) http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/vid/about.html -more on Values in Design http://valuesindesign.wordpress.com/ -"Critical Technical Practice as a Methodology for Values in Design" http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jofish/writing/chi-05-values-workshop-cemcom-submission.pdf The dream of truly relational classification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think and http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ Mass-customization as it relates to medical applications: -3D-printed prosthetic legs (in part http://semaphore.utoronto.ca/news.php?p=47) -3D-printed orthotics http://andiamo.io/ -the well-developed world of 3D printing for dentistry http://www.stratasys.com/industries/dental -a veritable rabbit hole of stuff on 3D printing and medicine http://3dprintingindustry.com/medical/ Anthropometry as social organizer -influence of body measurement on colonial organization of Rwanda http://www.monitor.upeace.org/archive.cfm?id_article=707 -Martin Lengwiler, "Double standards: the history of standardizing humans in modern life insurance" -Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man The human relation to measurement -the Smoot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot -Robert Tavernor, Smoot's ear: The measure of humanity http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300124927 On the instantiation of prejudice in the construction of categories -Library of Congress Subject Headings as prejudiced against certain groups http://www.sanfordberman.org/biblinks/knowlton.pdf -another piece on radical librarianship as a response to the problems of prejudiced categorization http://www.papercutzinelibrary.org/wordpress/2012/06/17/sanford-berman-father-of-radical-cataloging/ -Susan Leigh Star, "When shadows become complex" about the concept of falling outside of categories (pp 150-158 in linked PDF) http://www.cdu.edu.au/centres/spill//journal/LC_Journal_Issue2_2010.pdf -Joseph O'Connell, "Metrology: The creation of universality by the circulation of particulars" http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/32889/C%26T_1994_29_208.pdf?sequence=1