Love Objects: Engaging Material Culture
October 14, 2007 | Levent OZLER
The Design Research Group are organising a one day conference on the relationships between people and their objects, to be hosted by the Faculty of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin on 14th February 2008.
The relationship between people and their objects is a complex and multifaceted one, which is continually negotiated between the material and the immaterial.
Objects are used as tokens of affection, symbolic gestures and statements of devotion and can be represented, employed and appropriated in a multitude of ways.
They carry out important roles in our relationships with each other, either as bearers of significance, or through embodiment, engagement or control.
The seductive quality of objects can also mediate our relationships with them, as they engage our emotions in both subliminal and visceral ways.
In doing so they facilitate the projection and subversion of identities, and the creation of the contexts in which they operate.
It is expected that selected papers will be collected in an edited anthology.
Papers should be of 20 minutes duration and abstracts of max.
300 words should be submitted by 16 November 2007.
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