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April 18, 2005
Venus Rising at the Dana Centre
The Dana Centre is a purpose-built London venue for public debates about contemporary science, technology and culture. Tomorrow it hosts Venus Rising, a discussion of the question: "Can we shift the cultural image and language of technology towards the feminine?", with speakers including Dr. Lizbeth Goodman (director of The Smartlab Centre at Central Saint Martins College of Art Design).
It's too far from Helsinki for me to go, so if any of you London misbehavers make it along, please post your thoughts/links to your notes in the comments.
Posted by Foe at 06:45 AM in Events | Permalink
Comments
Thanks so much for bringing this event to my attention. It seems likely to me that one significant factor that hinders women's interest and involvement in technology and many other fields/topics is the predominance of adversarial debate in those discussions. Some people thrive in that environment, but many women consider automatic and pervasive adversarial debate to be destructive, hostile, or tedious.
Therefore, this London event meshes serendipitously with a topic I'm currently exploring in my weblog, CONTENTIOUS, about problems and issues related to "argument culture." (See: Smashing heads does not open minds).
In my posting today, I've let my readers know about this event. I've also posed a question, and I'm hoping that someone attending the Dana Centre event tomorrow might kindly raise that question on my behalf.
- Amy Gahran
Editor, CONTENTIOUS
Posted by: Amy Gahran at Apr 18, 2005 10:21:07 AM
