Distinguished Speakers Series: Peter Danholt
For the first lecture in this autumn's Distinguished Speakers Series, we are excited to welcome Associate Professor Peter Danholt from Aarhus University. The talk will focus on our daily encounters with the consequences of data and the digital. Digitization has changed the world at large and especially contemporary western societies substantially and continues to do so in a manner and pace that very few, if any, are able to fully grasp.
Inspired by the work to Isabelle Stengers and her notion of the "intrusion of Gaia", Danholt proposes the notion of the "intrusion of the digital". In short it entails that the digital is not always and only thought of as an instrument of (some) human will, designed by and for (some) humans and accordingly something supposedly controlled by (some) human agency.
Peter Danholt is Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture at the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies. Peter is broadly concerned with studying empirically how human beings, technologies, materiality and discourse are interwoven in mutually transforming processes of becoming. More specifically, Peter studies the design- and use practices of welfare technologies e.g. self monitoring devices, telemedical technologies, and robots in care and their effects focusing especially on design approaches such as Participatory Design and Userdriven Innovation.
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