What can science and technology studies learn from art and design? Reflections on 'Synthetic Aesthetics'.
What can science and technology studies learn from art and design? Reflections on 'Synthetic Aesthetics'.
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DOI：
10.1177/0306312716678488
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发表时间：
2017-04
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3
通讯作者：
Schyfter P
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作者：
Calvert J;Schyfter P
在本文中，我们反思了一个名为“合成美学”的项目，该项目将合成生物学家与艺术家和设计师聚集在一起进行配对交流。我们--STS项目的研究人员--很快就被我们的目标与艺术家和设计师的目标之间的相似性所打动。我们在与合成生物学家建立新的合作方面有着共同的兴趣，通过探索隐含的假设来“开放”科学，并询问占主导地位的研究议程。但我们之间也有差异，最重要的是艺术家和设计师制作有形的人工制品，具有即时性和旅行能力，似乎允许与我们的学术文本所引发的不同类型的讨论。艺术家和设计师们似乎也有自由，在与合成生物学的互动中变得更有趣，更具挑战性，甚至可能是颠覆性的。在本文中，我们反思了我们从与艺术家和设计师在项目中的合作中学到了什么，我们认为，更紧密地参与艺术和设计可以通过启用一种新兴的批评形式来丰富STS工作。
In this paper we reflect on a project called ‘Synthetic Aesthetics’, which brought together synthetic biologists with artists and designers in paired exchanges. We – the STS researchers on the project – were quickly struck by the similarities between our objectives and those of the artists and designers. We shared interests in forging new collaborations with synthetic biologists, ‘opening up’ the science by exploring implicit assumptions, and interrogating dominant research agendas. But there were also differences between us, the most important being that the artists and designers made tangible artefacts, which had an immediacy and an ability to travel, and which seemed to allow different types of discussions from those initiated by our academic texts. The artists and designers also appeared to have the freedom to be more playful, challenging and perhaps subversive in their interactions with synthetic biology. In this paper we reflect on what we learned from working with the artists and designers on the project, and we argue that engaging more closely with art and design can enrich STS work by enabling an emergent form of critique.