The Topological Media Lab at Concordia University, and partners, invite two internationally respected scholars and long-time researchers from Silicon Valley Dr. Niklas Damiris and Dr. Helga Wild for a site visit capped by a public discussion.

Dr. Helga Wild and WaterCooler Logic's participatory ethnography mediates and catalyzes human relations and processes in the detailed life of complex organizations. On one hand it is practically embedded in everyday life, and on the other hand it draws on and reflects concepts and approaches from ethnography, anthropology, rhythmanalysis, and complexity theory.

Dr. Niklas Damiris continues his discussion of a model for valuing the work of vigorously incommensurate people in the co-production of social value. Although the model is quite general, it is particularly relevant and powerful for those artists and humanists who are trying to fund and value work that is not directly tied to, for example, technology development or entertainment industry, yet who aspire to adopt or adapt the same material technologies, sources of funding, or models of R&D work.

Monday April 2, 3:30-5:00 pm
A CRC conversation with humanists, artists, and universities in Canada's economies of culture: Roundtable "Creative research and the co-production of values" with Dr. Helga Wild, Dr. Niklas Damiris and Dr. Sha Xin Wei

HEX-X Resource Centre, EV11-705 (Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex), 1515 St. Catherine West, Concordia University

Tuesday April 3, 5pm
Hexagram Tea with Dr. Niklas Damiris and Dr. Helga Wild 11th Floor Atrium, EV (Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex), 1515 St. Catherine West, Concordia University