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SUMMARY:Call for Abstracts: “Holding the Disparate Together” - STS-CH 
 Conference 2025
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DESCRIPTION:Dear colleagues\,\n\nPlease find below the call for abstracts 
 for the open panel\, “Holding the Disparate Together: Exploring the Conn
 ective Tissue of Built Environments\,” to be held at the STS-CH Conferen
 ce in Zürich from 10 to 12 September 2025. The conference theme is Holdin
 g Things Together? Change\, Continuity\, Critique.\n\nThe submission deadl
 ine is 9 May 2025.\n\nHolding the Disparate Together: Exploring the Connec
 tive Tissue of Built Environments\n\nStarting with Karen Barad’s observa
 tion that one can "think the ‘holding together’ of the disparate itsel
 f” (2014)\, this panel reflects on how heterogeneous components and enti
 ties contain and retain a type of cohesiveness\, adhesiveness\, or persist
 ence over time. It particularly invites scholars of architectural practice
 s and built environments to explore how disparate knowledges\, techniques\
 , senses\, materials\, and actors come and hold together in the production
  and maintenance of architecture. Considering that built environments and 
 structures are the result of many technical\, ecological\, and social comp
 onents\, it allows us to comprehend architectural productions as the proce
 ssual outcome of ongoing material and urban transformations\, relationship
 -building\, and socio-political controversies that depend on a multitude o
 f actors (Latour and Yaneva 2008\, Till 2009\, Yaneva 2012\, Ingold 2013\,
  Elinoff 2021). This panel welcomes diverse contributions and case study d
 iscussions that convey a concrete sense of lived and imagined architecture
 . Inviting contributions from a diverse range of fields\, such as anthropo
 logy\, STS\, architecture\, history\, sociology\, urban geography\, media 
 studies\, environmental humanities\, and others\, we intend to collectivel
 y explore questions such as:\n• How can one hold the "disparate” toget
 her without compromising on heterogeneity and difference?\n• What consti
 tutes the "disparate”?\n• What holds built environments and spaces tog
 ether\, and what or whom can they hold in return?\n• What spaces can hol
 d and foster community building?\n• What care work\, maintenance\, colle
 ctives\, and labor produce and maintain built spaces?\n• And vice versa\
 , what collectives\, materials\, and relations can be held by built spaces
 ?\n\nConference website: https://sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/\nAbstract submis
 sion (max. 300 words) here:\nhttps://express.converia.de/frontend/index.ph
 p?folder_id=10436&page_id=\n\nPlease feel free to get in touch if you have
  any questions about the submission or the panel. I am looking forward to 
 your contributions and to engaging discussions.\n\nWarm regards\,\nLaurin 
 Baumgardt\n 
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