The Objects of Design and Social Science

[Alex Wilkie]

The Objects of Design and Social Science seminar series continues next  
Wednesday (November 4th) with Albena Yaneva speaking on the topic  
Buildings as Things.

Albena Yaneva is a Lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University  
of Manchester, The Manchester Architecture Research Centre. She holds  
a doctoral degree in Sociology from Ecole des Mines de Paris. She is  
the author of the books: The Making of a Building: A Pragmatist  
Approach to Architecture, Oxford: Peter Lang (2009) and Made by the  
Office for Metropolitan Architecture: An Ethnography of Design,  
Rotterdam: 010 Publishers (2009), and the guest editor of  
Understanding Architecture, Accounting Society, 2008 (a special issue  
of Science Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Science and  
Technology Studies). Her work has been published in Design and  
Culture, The Yale Architectural Journal, Museum and Society, The  
Journal of Material Culture, Social Studies of Science, Public  
Understanding of Science.

All welcome.


all the best

Alex
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Alex Wilkie

Lecturer in Design & PhD Candidate

Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process
Department of Sociology
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/

Room 1202, Warmington Tower
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW, UK

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