Controlling Environments is a one-day interdisciplinary workshop addressing the historical and contemporary significance of the cybernetic sciences as an array of related disciplines that have, and continue to, inform the environmental sciences and other disciplinary conceptualisations of human-environment relations.
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Conference Programme
10.00 : Welcome and coffee
10.30 – 13.30 : Morning session
Isabell Schrickel (Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Leuphana University)
The Obergurgl Model – An Integrative Approach to Environmental Modelling at IIASA
Ola Uhrqvist (Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University)
Earth System Governmentality and the Anthropocene
Thomas Turnbull (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
The Heath Government and the energy crisis: failure, futurology and feedback
13.30 – 14.30 : Lunch
14.30 – 15.30 : Intervention
“No Future!”
Author collective (Tarnac/Zürich)
15.30 – 18.30 : Afternoon session
Nate Tkacz (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick)
The Performance Platform: Governing Through Design
Jennifer Gabrys (Sociology, Goldsmiths)
Programming Environments, Programming Sense: Technical Distributions of Governance in the Smart City
Andrew Goffey (Centre for Critical Theory, University of Nottingham)
Feedback, control, and the machinic environment
18.30 – 19.15 : Closing discussion
20.00 : Dinner
Environmental Humanities
Contact name: Thomas Turnbull
Contact email: info@ctrl-env.info
Website: Controlling Environments Workshop
Audience: Open to all
Environmental Humanities, TORCH Programmes
