Lab

The Laboratory,

Originally considered a confined space for testing hypotheses, ‘making evidence’
For the lonely scientist to “remove” or distance himself from the experiment
Repeating experiments through trials of strength[i] to become ‘matters of fact’[ii]
 

1. 1. Puncturing the sterile lab environment 

 

1. 1. Experimentation evolves with methodological mutations

 

1. To understand sociomaterial worlds

 

1. 1. Interventions and implosions

 

1. 1. Attract knowledge nurtured in other disciplines

 

1. Inviting fellows and collaborators from other world-makings

 

1. 1. Seeking new lab tools and blackboxes to unpack 

 

1. 1. Speculating through feminist cartographies

 

1. 1. Creating meaning with newfound language

 

1. 1. With vibrations from curious and talented student explorations

 

1. 1. Softening institutional hierarchies adhering to metric driven practices

 

1. 1. Performative experimentation in practice

 

1. 1. A transformation

 

1. 1. 1. Diffraction

      [iii]

 

A Lab, re-configured[iv],
She hosts ‘matters of concern’[v]
Experiments with co-created epistemological expressions
Ingredients considered socio-techno-material and located
Toolkits overflowing with past-present-future
Mixing people – culture – disciplines – genders – histories
Maintaining and nourishing through Mentorship and Care
Distributing ownership in an egalitarian community of mutual respect 

 

1. …Haunted by The Laboratory and institutional power relations

 

Imagining experimentation as a form of practice and questioning
Countering the performative norms, hierarchies, and metrics
Generating alternate motivational factors for participation
Challenging institutional borders
Experimentation as plural conviviality
Spurring new and generative questions
Casting spells of trust and empowerment
Cloaked in transparent vulnerability
 

1. …Haunted by The Laboratory and institutional power relations

 
Stays curious
Challenges
Attracts
Involves
Collaborates
Evolves
 

1. …Haunted by The Laboratory and institutional power relations

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Author: Marie Blønd

 

[i] Sismondo, S. (2010). An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, (second edition). The Prehistory of Science and Technology Studies (chapter 1), pp. 1-11.

[ii] Latour, B. (2004). Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry , 2 (30), 225-248.

[iii] Haraway, D. (1997) Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium. FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience. New York: Routledge.

[iv] Haraway, D. (1988) Situated Knowledges: The Science Question In Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives. Feminist Studies , 14 (3), 575–599.

[v] Latour, B. (2004). Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry , 2 (30), 225-248.