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1. ATACD Newsletter 2
(Press/Newsletters)
In the second ATACD newsletter you will be able to read information about the latest ATACD news, events and activities and will be introduced to some of the important thinkers in topology and cultu

2. Performing topology
(News/Latest)
22 March 2010 Television Studio, Lockwood Building Goldsmiths, University of London This workshop has been supported by funding under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union

3. exhibition
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  CULTURES OF CHANGE. SOCIAL ATOMS AND ELECTRONIC LIVES studies the social and cultural dynamics from a highly multidisciplinary perspective, hand to hand with the complexity sciences and digital

4. Papers and Publications
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ATACD Knowledge base Principal Investigators' publications related to topology and cultural dynamics   Alex Adriaansens V2 Organization - Book for

Thursday October 30th, 2008 Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris This  workshop is hosted at the CSI (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation), Ecole des Mines de Paris. CSI is a partner of the AT

12 September 2008 University of Bologna, Italy Organised by: Professor Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna This event has been organised within the framework of the ATACD project funded

3rd ATACD colloquium 9-10 October 2008 SOAS, London Organised by: Goldsmiths, University of Barcelona and LSE This colloquium takes as its subject the making of financial markets through t

8. Interaction (a topology of agency?)
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Download the presentation as PDF (9994 KB) The smallest possible scale in a community deals with peer-to-peer interactions. Can global cultural dynamics and the implied topology be interpreted fr

Download the presentation as PDF (326 KB)

10. Test_Lab: Topology
(News/Latest)
17 April 2008 V2_ Institute for Unstable Media 20:00 hrs - 23:00 hrs Location: V2_ Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL, Rotterdam Featuring Tiziana Terranova (IT), Christoph Wachter (DE), Mathias

16 April 2008 Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam 19:30 hrs - 22:00 hrs Location: Piet Zwart Institute, Mauritsstraat 36, 3012 GC Rotterdam Public event with Bureau d'Etudes (FR), Theo Deutinge

12. ATACD: Press release 1
(Press/Press Releases)
Information sharing events get underway as academics look into the connections and patterns relating to cultural dynamics across disciplines. Press release 1

Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht) The notion of culture and of cultural dynamics in my work and in the practice of the programmes I am involved in (both the Utrecht centre for the H

Emilio Luque (UNED) Download the presentation as PDF (1,8 MB) Architects have historically relied on graphic projection devices and practices that deploy spatial design as "geometricall

Josep Perelló (Universitat de Barcelona) Download the presentation as PDF (3.2 MB): Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 A general view on the current research of dynamics inside communities

16. "La Sapienza" University, Rome (Italy).
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Principal Investigator: Professor Vittorio Loreto Department: Physics Department Key areas of expertise/ interest: statistical mechanics of non equilibrium and complex systems; granular medi

Principal Investigator: Professor Emilio Luque Department: Social Structure Department, Centre for Social Structures. Research Director, IUED. Key areas of expertise / interest: network an

18. University of Barcelona (Spain)
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Principal Investigator: Professor Josep Perelló Department: Departament of Fisica Fonamental Key areas of expertise / interest: econophysics; dynamics of financial markets; relationsh

Principal Investigator: Professor Ivan Tchalakov Department: Department of Sociology Key areas of expertise/ interest: sociology of knowledge, science and technology studies and historical

20. SONY-CSL (France)
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Principal Investigator: Professor Luc Steels (Director of Sony-CSL Paris)   Key areas of expertise/interest: Artificial Intelligence (AI) including natural language, vision, robotic behaviour

21. Intro: Josep Perelló
(Interviews/Intro)
"A more complete landscape of culture dynamics" Josep Perelló Universitat de Barcelona

22.  Knowledge
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...er | Internet | GPS | Database | Artificial Intelligence | Calculation | Form | Consciousness | Perception | Nonlinear Dynamics | Chaos | Visualisation | Simulation | Algorithm | Interaction | Feedbac...

23. Colloquium 2
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Evolution, Interaction, Communication 17 - 18 April 2008 Organiser: V2_, Rotterdam A post-event report from Chair of the ATACD project can be downloaded here. The papers and the vide

24. Colloquium 1
(Events/Colloquia)
Topology for culture: metaphors and tools 29-30 November 2007 Organiser: Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Please consult the report from the ATACD Chair,

25. Understanding the dynamics of culture
(Press/Press Releases)
Download the full publication in PDF (150 KB)  

26. Ivan Tchalakov (University of Plovdiv)
(Interviews/Interview)
Is it all change? No: "We have a lot of stability in the world." Why do you think, from your very personal involvement with cultural thinking, that a topological approach can help un

"Questioning the boundaries of disciplines" Why do you think, from your very personal involvement with cultural thinking, that a topological approach can help understand contemporary

"A more complete landscape of culture dynamics"      Why do you think, from your very personal involvement with cultural thinking, that a topological approach can h

“The divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches: A stopgap for the social sciences” Why do you think, from your very personal involvement with cultural thinking, that a t

30. Events
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On This Page Cultural Policy Event | Exhibition | Student Day cultural policy event Topology, Innovation and Cultural Policy Arts Santa Mònica, Saturday 12 December

31. Project Description and Objectives
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On This Page Organization | Activities Project Title: ATACD - A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics (NEST – 043415) Pathfinder Initiative: 2005/2006 Duration: 36 months F

"Absence of normative judgement - anything but 'neutral'"   Why do you think, from your very personal involvement with cultural thinking, that a topological approach can hel

33. A topological approach to cultural dynamics
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Drawing inspiration from mathematical theories of topology, networks and complexity, the ATACD project will create a new way of looking at social change that emphasises links, driving forc

News
Performing topology
22 March 2010
Television Studio, Lockwood Building
Goldsmiths, University of London

This workshop has been supported by funding under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union
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The Discovery of the New
26-27 February 2010
Union Chapel London, London, UK

This workshop has been supported by funding under the Sixth
Framework Programme of the European Union.
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Can experiments with humanoid robots tell us something about us?
25 February 2010
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Lecture given by: Luc Steels, University of Brussels (VUB AI Lab) & Sony Computer Science Lab (Paris)

This event has been supported by funding under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union.
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