I’ve been invited to participate in a workshop exploring practical knowledge and modes of sociological expression at Goldsmiths. I’ll be talking about WiFi makers and bike makers. It should be very interesting.

Workshop: Analysing Practical Knowledge
Goldsmiths, University of London
Wednesday, 11 November 2009

The idea of this event is to explore how we can make sociological sense of the kinds of practical knowledge that cannot necessarily be spoken, nor even readily observed. What we mean by practical knowledge is an embodied or tacit skill, competence or feel for something such as being in a place or undertaking a particular activity or job. At this workshop, we want to discuss the possibilities and limitations of talk, sound, image, and objects in producing understandings of practical knowledge. Participants are asked to articulate general issue/problems of analysing practical knowledge and how these might be worked through with reference to a specific research project.

Participants include Lynne Pettinger (Essex), Les Back (Goldsmiths), Dawn Lyon (Kent), Alison Rooke (Goldsmiths), Alex Rhys-Taylor (Goldsmiths), and Kat Jungnickel (Goldsmiths).

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