Graduate Student Workshop: Values In Computer Information Systems Design2008 Graduate Student Workshop: Values In Computer Information Systems Design Santa Clara University . A public conference, the workshop’s culminating event, will feature student teams presenting their value-centered design projects to a guest panel of scholars, researchers and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. With Keynote speaker Fred Turner, Assistant Professor Of Communication, Stanford University. . Date: Saturday, August 16 Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Sobrato Conference Room Lunch keynote: 12 noon to 1 p.m. Keynote: 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Fred Turner, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication Stanford University Location: Williman Room, Benson Center The Politics of Design in the American Counterculture Though we tend to remember the '60s as an era of marching in the streets, it was also a time when many abandoned party politics and sought to design their way into new forms of community. This talk returns to that moment in the work of Buckminster Fuller, Stewart Brand, and above all, the communards of the back-to-the land movement. It explores how the '60s faith in small scale technologies, peer collaboration, and interpersonal communication shaped the fate of the communes - and it asks what lessons that fate might offer for our own more digital time. Fred Turner is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author most recently of the prize-winning book, /From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism/ (University of Chicago Press, 2006). http://fredturner.stanford.edu . Admission is free. Advanced registration encouraged. Edward Lucas elucas@scu.edu, 408-551-6090 Workshop Philosophy and GoalsDespite a growing body of research and scholarship dedicated both to theoretical and practical dimensions of this important subject, institutional responses have been sporadic and somewhat sparse. Several goals have motivated the design of VID workshop:
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