The ‘display’ in the exhibition organised as part of the November AusSTS meeting was ‘a story-telling’ about the ‘making and doing’ of a particularly elusive entity in an Australian university setting. This essay is ‘a story about the telling of this story as part of a particular event’. As such, both the story as displayed,…
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Knowing through embodied data materialization Top-end STS is an academic collective based at Charles Darwin University in Australia’s Northern Territory. This collective has inspired and continues to inspire me in its insisting on understanding how science and technology embedded in particular institutions and environments make knowers and knowledges. The collective is deeply concerned with how…
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‘Making and Doing STS’ amidst the sociomaterial paraphernalia of anthropology inflected museum science Inquiring into the making and doing of interactions between sciences, technologies and societies (STS) in a particular situation is doing science. I mean this in a general sense. Scientists, including STS practitioners, are proposed as beginning inquiry by confronting confusion through devising…
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Making and doing anthropology, archives and people-places in Arnhem Land (and in Canberra?) I start this piece with a question for you, my reader: Do you need your own anthropologist? This was a question I posed to conference participants who interacted with my Making & Doing display at AusSTS 2024. I wonder if any attendees…
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Making and Doing Guramabai/Rapid Creek and AusSTS How are creeks and modern universities entangled? How might STS Making and Doing help with loosening some of these clotted relations? And might this open possibilities for new kinds of epistemic institutional routines? This video was taken by Leonie Norrington, one of the members of our TopEndSTS…
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