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Conference Presentations by Jorge Borondo
CriticIall III - International Conference on Architectural Design and Criticism, 2018
Ruth S. Cowan describes in her article ´The Consumption Junction: A Proposal for Research Strateg... more Ruth S. Cowan describes in her article ´The Consumption Junction: A Proposal for Research Strategies in the Sociology of Technology´ how what is truly important is not the study of the veracity of ideas, but rather how these affect society. If we were to paraphrase society as a collection of subjets, we could argue that value doesnt reside in things themselves, but above all in the representation provoked within ourselves. We could also argue that the construction of our sensibility might depend on this performance. Cowan´s writing belongs to the book ´The Social Construction of Technological Systems´, published in 1987, which gathered a collection of thirteen articles where new ways of understanding technology-and therefore, its history-were introduced. The book and its authors displayed a new approach to investigation refered to as SCOT (Social Construction of Technology), where the complexity of the technological crucible-its evolution, development and representation-, unfolded as an ocean of social, technical, economical and political ideas.
Papers by Jorge Borondo
VAD08 La Estetica , 2022
El plan del ensanche de Barcelona proyectado por Ildefonso Cerdá a mediados del siglo XIX es reco... more El plan del ensanche de Barcelona proyectado por Ildefonso Cerdá a mediados del siglo XIX es reconocido, principalmente, por su característico trazado hipodámico achaflanado. Sin embargo, tanto el proyecto y motivación original como el desarrollo posterior son producto de múltiples complejidades sociales, tecnológicas y económicas que trascienden el valor monumental del orden formal.
Se plantea una modesta revisión de esta hegemonía formalista proponiendo una comprensión socio-histórica de las controversias tecnológicas.
CriticIall III - International Conference on Architectural Design and Criticism, 2018
Ruth S. Cowan describes in her article ´The Consumption Junction: A Proposal for Research Strateg... more Ruth S. Cowan describes in her article ´The Consumption Junction: A Proposal for Research Strategies in the Sociology of Technology´ how what is truly important is not the study of the veracity of ideas, but rather how these affect society. If we were to paraphrase society as a collection of subjets, we could argue that value doesnt reside in things themselves, but above all in the representation provoked within ourselves. We could also argue that the construction of our sensibility might depend on this performance. Cowan´s writing belongs to the book ´The Social Construction of Technological Systems´, published in 1987, which gathered a collection of thirteen articles where new ways of understanding technology-and therefore, its history-were introduced. The book and its authors displayed a new approach to investigation refered to as SCOT (Social Construction of Technology), where the complexity of the technological crucible-its evolution, development and representation-, unfolded as an ocean of social, technical, economical and political ideas.
VAD08 La Estetica , 2022
El plan del ensanche de Barcelona proyectado por Ildefonso Cerdá a mediados del siglo XIX es reco... more El plan del ensanche de Barcelona proyectado por Ildefonso Cerdá a mediados del siglo XIX es reconocido, principalmente, por su característico trazado hipodámico achaflanado. Sin embargo, tanto el proyecto y motivación original como el desarrollo posterior son producto de múltiples complejidades sociales, tecnológicas y económicas que trascienden el valor monumental del orden formal.
Se plantea una modesta revisión de esta hegemonía formalista proponiendo una comprensión socio-histórica de las controversias tecnológicas.