Nanonoia by Jessica Charlesworth

My project is entitled nanonoia and in this presention i will discuss its development by highlighting my process and design decisions and ending with further space for explorations.There are two phase to this project:
PHASE ONE
First phase addresses my influences, research and initial questions. The second phase further explores the complexities [...]

Safe living? Eradicate fear!

Japanese scientists at the University of Tokyo have genetically modified a mouse’s brain and removed their smell of fear enabling the mouse to happily interact with a cat! The resulting “delta-D” mutant mice were also able to discriminate other smells but “was not afraid of cat odours, and approached the cats without a sign of [...]

Goggle jackets are the new hoodies!

A watered down version of some of Vexed Generation’s fashion range (mentioned earlier) have definitely become the new hoodie! The goggle jackets have been produced by a variety of fashion labels including Emporio Armani and Stone Island but have now been copied enough that they are cheap and available to buy for young people. The [...]

Distance, anxiety and built form

David Sibley - Geography, University of Leeds
I will talk about the anxieties associated with being ‘too near’ or ‘too distant’ from others. Drawing on modern re-workings of the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein, I will suggest that some kinds of socio-spatial relations can be interpreted as manifestations of psychotic and depressive anxiety. Focusing on the [...]

‘(Mis)Tanzania: Security, Site, Performance’

Amanda Newall and Ola Johansson - Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster
ABSTRACT:
(Mis)Tanzania is a site-specific tableaux vivant that allows intercultural time, space, and objects to pass through the appearance of the artist. By instantiating the work in Dar es Salaam, right outside a colonial property on Upanga Street, the found [...]

Community cohesion as safe living: delimiting the obligations to and dangers of proximity

Anne-Marie Fortier - Sociology, Lancaster University

In this paper I discuss how ‘cohesion’ figures in government policy strategies targeted at local communities and neighbourhoods. By going to the ‘ways of seeing’ that policy documents open up, I consider how policy discourses ‘figure social life in certain imaginary ways’ (Butler 2002). I argue that community cohesion is [...]

Buried But Not Forgotten?: The Secret of Yucca Mountain

Brian P. Bloomfield & Theo Vurdubakis - Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, Lancaster University
ABSTRACT: Yucca Mountain in Nye County, Nevada (USA), is the site of a very ambitious project to construct an underground repository for high-level nuclear waste. The object of [...]

Death in the Wrong Place: altered lifescapes of the 2001 Foot & Mouth Disease disaster

Foot and Mouth Disease Lifescapes’ - Maggie Mort, Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University
In May 2003, two years and three months after the outbreak of the world’s worst epidemic of Foot & Mouth Disease, a small group of people gathered on a bleak windy former airfield site to commemorate the slaughter and burial of more [...]

The prison cell and the third space

Happiness is Door-Shaped: Issues of Control and Safety in Prison - Anita Wilson, Literacy research centre, Lancaster University
‘Happiness is door shaped’ is a phrase well-known to those of us who undertake long-term sustained prison ethnographies. We hear it uttered by disillusioned, ‘old-style’ prison officers who are uncomfortable with contemporary prison policy and its ‘modern’ [...]

‘The School Journey: visible and invisible dangers’

Duncan Whyatt and Marion Walker, Geography, Lancaster University
ABSTRACT:
This paper stems from an ESRC funded project that uses a combination of traditional and novel techniques to gain a deeper understanding of the school journey. A group of 30 teenagers were asked to use a customised mobile phone application, which automatically recorded their routes, to take photographs [...]

Secure Urbanism and Resilient Infrastructure - The New Politics of Ecological Security

Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin - Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF), Salford University
ABSTRACT: Secure urbanism and resilient infrastructure argues that a new logic is beginning to reshape the material development of urban infrastructure networks both within and between cities. World cities are strategically assessing the resilience of their critical infrastructure networks [...]

Locating Social Reponsibility: CCTV & Public Space

Department of Psychology, Lancaster University - Mark Levine and John Dixon

ABSTRACT:This paper will present data from a Home Office funded study of the impact of public order measures like CCTV surveillance and street drinking legislation on social relations in public space. The focus of the research was the town square in Lancaster city centre. Data [...]

Workshop 3 Proximities: Nanonoia by Jessica Charlesworth + The RACE by Michael Burton

Images: from ‘Nanonoia’ by Jessica Charlesworth & ‘The Race’ by Michael Burton
I will be returning to Lancaster University on Thursday to not only be a rapporteur but to actually talk about my work alongside my colleague Michael Burton. We will both be discussing issues relating to nanotechnology, proximity, future health and safe living. I look [...]

US Army Muslim Chaplain James Yee talk

Photo credit: Rob Miller
US Army Muslim Chaplain James Yee gave his first ever talk in the UK at Lancaster University on Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Addressing a crowd of nearly 200 people, Chaplain Yee addressed one of the programme themes of ‘designing safe citizens’ by reflecting on his experiences as a US Armny Muslim [...]